On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:18:24 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
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The Visitor wrote in
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Well the video and results are out.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/



http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl.../National/home
Tasered man's last moments
IAN BAILEY

Globe and Mail Update

November 14, 2007 at 10:18 PM EST

VANCOUVER — Astonishing video footage released yesterday shows
Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski did not resist police or
confront them before officers zapped him with a taser, setting off
a struggle that ended in his death in the international arrivals
area of Vancouver's International Airport.

The footage, shot by Victoria resident Paul Pritchard, was
released to the news media yesterday and widely broadcast,
providing a raw look at events that have prompted a furious debate
in B.C. about the police use of tasers. ...

He began acting erratically after more than 10 hours being
processed — the footage picks up as he was positioning chairs and
a table in a manner that caused the automatic doors to remain
open. Security guards look on.

He appears to turn and move away from officers, putting up his
hands in frustration. He appears to pick up a stapler on a
counter. He is then tasered with a 50,000-volt shock, and
jittering he drops, screaming in pain.

Someone yells "hit him again." He was tasered twice. Police pile
on, seeking to restrain him. One officer places his knee on Mr.
Dziekanski's neck.

Mr. Dziekanski went into medical distress and died there. The
footage shows officers attending to him. One man in a suit checks
for a pulse. It is impossible to tell from the footage whether he
is dead at that point, although he appears non-responsive.

An autopsy later found no sign of drugs or alcohol in Mr.
Dziekanski's system, but failed to come up with any specific cause
of death. ...

"I was expecting to see a confrontation, a discussion and things
go sideways, then the tasering. That's not what you see," he said.

"The biggest thing that surprises me is there were four
professional police officers there, and that the four officers
showed up on the scene, [and] none of them seemed to take the
time, not one of them, to go and talk to the crowd of people, the
witnesses that were there and get some background on what was
going on," he said. ...