Editorial (Victoria Times Colonist) – It’s welcome news that special prosecutor Richard Peck has recommended the case of the four RCMP officers who tasered Robert Dziekanski be reopened.
But it also raises serious questions about the initial decision by the province’s criminal justice branch not to lay charges.
That decision against charges in December 2008 was reviewed by senior officials in the Attorney General’s Ministry. The branch spokesman said at the time that there was not sufficient likelihood of conviction to warrant charges.
But Peck’s recommendation that the case be re-opened refers to “factual material that was not available to the branch at the time, including but not limited to expert video analysis and expert opinions relating to the reasonableness of the escalation and de-escalation of force.”
Why was the needed information not available to the branch at the time?
Resources should not have been an issue; the RCMP sent four officers to Poland to investigate Dziekanski’s background. And the criminal justice branch knew there would be concerns because of the RCMP’s involvement in the police investigation of the death.
So before ruling out charges, why didn’t prosecutors and criminal justice branch officials get expert analysis of the video of the entire incident? Why didn’t they demand independent opinions on the officers’ use of force?
They could have taken those steps — as the Braidwood inquiry later did. Answers are needed.
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
Charles Caleb Colton
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Would this also include,
Delusion?
Noun Singular delusion
(plural delusions)
A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
The state of being deluded or misled.
(Deluded);
Be false to; be dishonest with.
(Misled);
1-Lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions
2-Give false or misleading information to
That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
(Falsely);
1-In an insincerely false manner
2-In an incorrect manner
“to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely”
(Propagate);
1-Transmit from one generation to the next.
2-Become distributed or widespread
3-Transmit or cause to broaden or spread
4-Cause to become widely known
Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain.
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Main Entry: para·noia
Pronunciation: \ˌper-ə-ˈnȯi-ə, ˌpa-rə-\
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, madness, from paranous demented, from para- + nous mind
Date: circa 1811
1 : a psychosis characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations
2 : a tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others
— para·noi·ac \-ˈnȯi-ˌak, -ˈnȯi-ik\ also para·noic \-ˈnȯi(-i)k, -ˈnō-ik\ adjective or noun
— para·noi·cal·ly \-ˈnȯi(-i)-k(ə-)lē, -ˈnō-i-k(ə-)lē\ adverb
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Definition of the Noun: “Cover-up”
Concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public.
Would this be a fair definition.
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