Immigrant Killed at Canadian Airport by POlice
By Monkeyrose
@Monkeyrose (2840)
Canada
November 15, 2007 10:48pm CST
THis is a terrible incident that happened last week at the vancouver international airport. Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski was waiting for 8 or 9 hours for his mother to pick him up. She was trying to find him but had no help. He did not speak english. He threw a computer and a chair no where near any people. 4 police officers came up and tazered him.
They got him to the floor and tazered him again while holding him down. I just watch the video that a bystander took. It is horrible. What do you think?http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=936_1195094875&p=1
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@Monkeyrose (2840)
• Canada
16 Nov 07
The thing is he wasn't even acting violent towards any people. He walked away from them. They say he held a stapler in a threatening manner and thats why they tasered him the first time. He was tasered a total of 3 times. This is frightening. I was hoping more people would respond because this is a very big thing here. We are holding protests in Vancouver and Toronto.
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@Monkeyrose (2840)
• Canada
16 Nov 07
I know! WEre supposed to be a safe country!
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@breepeace (3014)
• Canada
18 Nov 07
That was awful. I felt so much for that poor man and his poor mother. What must he have thought? Being stranded in a huge airport the size of Vancouver's for over 10 hours with no assistance, no translator, being frustrated and hungry and tired, looking for his mother who was supposed to meet him there (of course she couldn't because she hadn't realized the baggage area was secured when she told him to wait there for her), thinking he might actually get help from these official looking men who suddenly hurt him as he walks away even more frustrated at the language barrier. And then they killed him. I feel so awful. I actually couldn't sleep after watching it Friday night. It disturbed and saddened me that much.
I just want everyone to know that Canadians are just as torn up about this as anyone, that not all mounties are trigger happy power trippers like those 4 appeared to be, and that we are raising a commotion in order to have these 4 severely reprimanded and not be 'above the law' like so many law enforcement officials have appeared to be in past tazer related deaths.
We know from toxicology analysis that he was not under the influence of anything, just that he was a frightened, confused and frustrated man who did not deserve to be tasered, much less killed for such a minor disruption.
It's sickening. Even an RCMP officer I know has mentioned that he is so torn up about the way his fellow officers handled the situation, that if they get off the hook, he's planning to resign, because he'll have lost complete faith in the concept of justice.
I hope they are discharged from the service. They give our wonderful mounties an awful name.
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@Monkeyrose (2840)
• Canada
18 Nov 07
Thank you for this. I think this is very important people are aware of this situation so that the canadian government does something about it. Currently the 4 mounties have been suspended and th Ontario polic department have been called in to do an investigation.
This was the first time he had been on an airplane and its was a long trip. He had been waiting for 8-9 hrs. No wonder he was distraught!
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@academic2 (7000)
• Uganda
21 Nov 07
These happenings are very unCanadian, because, it has always been in Cananda that immigrants have been free to go-they even invite immigrants to go to work-it it si conceieveabble that they should be killing this man. Some one must be asked either resign or go to jail.
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