RCMP Watch

Ian Bailey, Vancouver, BC (Globe and Mail) - Robert Dziekanski’s mother, frustrated at delays in an inquest into the death of her son after he was tasered last year, is considering legal action against the Mounties who used the device and others linked to the matter, her lawyer says.
Walter Kosteckyj, speaking for Zofia Cisowski, raised [...]

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Ian Bailey, Vancouver, B.C. (Globe and Mail) - One of the four officers involved in the fatal confrontation with Robert Dziekanski is now facing charges of impaired driving after a 21-year-old man was killed in a collision over the weekend.
RCMP spokesman Sergeant Tim Shields confirmed an off-duty member of the force was involved in the [...]

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Ottawa (Canadian Press) - A new RCMP report says the Mounties get no special training on how to use Tasers in a jailhouse setting.
This despite the fact about one in every 10 people hit with an RCMP stun gun late last year was behind bars. The figures are found in a quarterly report on Taser [...]

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Lestock, SK (Regina Leader Post) - The operations commander in charge of the RCMP Emergency Response Team (ERT) defended its response to an incident that ended in a fatal shooting.
Taking the stand on Friday at an inquest examining the death of Delbert Kenneth Pelletier, Inspector Len DelPino said ERT’s goal on Nov. 13, 2006, was [...]

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Lestock, SK (Canadian Press) - Friends and relatives of a man who was fatally shot by police have told an inquest into the death that they could have helped end the standoff if they had been allowed to talk to him.
A RCMP negotiator tried to convince Delbert Kenneth Pelletier, who was holed up with a [...]

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Kerry Pither (Ottawa Citizen) - It’s no wonder CSIS, the RCMP and the government wanted to keep the Iacobucci inquiry so secret. Despite all the faults with the process, the inquiry’s report offers up a startling and shameful record of Canadian complicity in torture. It effectively clears the names of men that the government has [...]

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Andrew Duffy (Ottawa Citizen) - A federal inquiry has found that Canadian officials bear some responsibility for the torture suffered by three Canadian citizens who were imprisoned in Syria and Egypt in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
In a 544-page report made public yesterday, retired Supreme Court justice Frank Iacobucci said the Royal [...]

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Vancouver, B.C. (Canadian Press) - One year after a would-be Polish immigrant died after being jolted by an RCMP Taser at Vancouver International Airport, his mother remains frustrated by a lack of answers, says her lawyer.
Robert Dziekanski, 40, died after being shocked by a Taser as four Mounties confronted the agitated man early on the [...]

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(CBC) - RCMP officials say they have spoken to the Mountie who helped out a Saskatchewan candidate in the federal election, reminding the officer about the force’s policies with regard to political campaigns.
RCMP managers have identified the officer who delivered campaign signs to the La Ronge office of Conservative candidate Rob Clarke on Monday, said [...]

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Halifax, N.S. (Canadian Press) - Nova Scotia’s Court of Appeal has quashed drug convictions against a dozen people because an RCMP officer fabricated evidence against them.
In a decision released Wednesday, the court says all of the convictions cannot stand because former Mountie Daniel Ryan sold drugs while lying under oath to justify search warrants for [...]

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