Taser Death In Airport Video Released

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On Oct 14, 2007, Robert Dziekanski arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia to start a new life in Canada. He never made it out of the airport. After becomming lost and confused for more than 10 hours in the airport, Canadian Federal RCMP Police Officers confronted, tasered, and tackeled the Polish man who didn't speak English. Less than a minuite later, Robert Dziekanski was dead.

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Police claimed he was violent and that the police tried to communicate with him before tasering him. They claimed the using the Taser was necessary and proper course of action. However, Paul Pritchard, a local man returning home via the airport captured Robert Dziekanski's last ten minuites on his digital camera. The police confiscated the camera and the footage, and told Pritchard that they would need to hold the camera and the footage for more than two years. Pritchard got a lawyer with the intention of taking the RCMP to court to force them to release his camera and footage, but the RCMP relented and released the camera and footage back to Pritchard, who then released it to the press.