On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:30:57 -0400, The Visitor
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Update


http://tinyurl.com/3cvkdq


It looks like the videos will tell the truth:



http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl.../National/home
Questions hang over taser death
He spent 10 hours frustrated by airport bureaucracy. Just 24
seconds later, police shot him with tasers

MARK HUME AND SUNNY DHILLON

From Friday's Globe and Mail

October 26, 2007 at 3:19 AM EDT

VANCOUVER — Dazed and confused after more than 15 hours of travel,
unable to communicate in English and scared because he couldn't
find his mother, Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski was jolted by
a taser just 24 seconds after being confronted by police in
Vancouver International Airport.

That allegation was made Thursday by a lawyer for Mr. Dziekanski's
family who says video evidence will show that the RCMP took him
down with a taser jolt moments after approaching him.

"I've been in touch with witnesses. I have viewed a video, which
was taken by a bystander, which is not going to be released until
at least the time of the inquest. From my observation, the
interaction between the police and this individual, who didn't
appear to me to be posing a danger to anybody at the time … was 24
seconds, roughly, before he was tasered," Walter Kosteckyj said
...

A CTV News report Thursday night, based on emergency radio logs,
shows police arrived at the scene at 1:28 a.m. and, two minutes
later, it was reported a "male has been tasered." ...

The radio log does not indicate when police first approached Mr.
Dziekanski, just that he was down two minutes after they arrived —
and that by 1:32 he had lost consciousness.

CTV reported there was a 12-minute delay before medical help
arrived. Mr. Dziekanski died shortly after being tasered — only 10
hours after arriving in the country that was to be his new home.
...

Police have described a much more measured response in which
officers gave a wildly agitated Mr. Dziekanski two jolts from a
taser just to subdue him long enough to put handcuffs on him. The
RCMP say they too have videos, but they can't be released because
an investigation is under way. ...

He said Mr. Dziekanski's journey to Canada began in Poland about 3
a.m., when he left his home town of Pieszyce to get to an airport
for his first airplane flight. The 40-year-old construction
worker, who had never left Poland before, was immigrating to
Canada to join his mother, 61, who lives in Kamloops, about a
five-hour drive from Vancouver.

They had arranged to meet at the baggage carousel in the
international terminal at YVR. What neither of them seemed to
know, however, was that the baggage area is inside a secure area
just past Canada Customs and Immigration. There is no line of
sight into the Arrivals Hall from the public waiting area, except
for a short distance through sliding glass doors.

Mr. Dziekanski arrived at about 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 14.

"He made his way to primary customs in the ordinary fashion … he
went through there in the normal time frame … he then proceeded
through and was directed to secondary customs, which is normal for
someone who doesn't speak English and is immigrating to the
country," Mr. Kosteckyj said. His papers were in order and he
proceeded without difficulty.

But what happened after that was far from normal. For nearly 10
hours, Mr. Dziekanski stayed in the Arrivals Hall, growing
increasingly frustrated and eventually becoming frantic.

Outside, in the public area, his mother spent nearly six hours
pacing the corridors and, in broken English, asking airport
officials for help in locating her son.

Mr. Kosteckyj said she visited one booth in international arrivals
"at least three to four times and conveyed to them that she was
concerned about her son being in the area and she wanted to get a
message to him and how could she do that? They wrote her name down
and said that they would make inquiries."

At about 10 p.m., she was told he wasn't there. She made the long
drive home, only to find a phone message waiting, saying her son
had been found.

"She called back to immigration when she got in, which would have
been around 2 a.m., and spoke to someone there and was advised
that her son was somewhere in the area and was fine. And she
advised, you know, 'Please take care of him because he can't speak
English and I'll get there as soon as I can.' And of course he had
died, been killed really, some time on or about 1 or 1:30," Mr.
Kosteckyj said.

At a news conference, Ms. Cisowski said she had dreamed of opening
a small business in Kamloops with her son. "I've lost my only
family," she said. "I studied English during the day and at night
I saved money to get my son to Canada."

Mr. Dziekanski arrived with three bags, two of which were filled
with geography books.