Petti Fong, Vancouver, B.C. (Toronto Star) – The lawyer for one of the RCMP officers scheduled to appear before the Taser inquiry into the death of Robert Dziekanski revealed this morning that the Polish government is considering questioning police for legal proceedings.
David Butcher, representing Const. Bill Bentley, filed a motion asking for restrictions on the official transcripts from the inquiry.
Butcher did not go into details on whether the officers have received notice but hinted that there are proceedings under way.
Dziekanski, a Polish citizen, left his home in southern Poland in October 2007 to start a new life in Canada.
At the Vancouver International Airport, he was left wandering for hours when he could not make connect with his mother, Zofia Cisowski, who had travelled three hours from Kamloops to pick him up.
Dziekanski, 40, was shot five times with a Taser gun and died minutes later.
“There is a court order that will enable (the government of Poland) to interview witnesses,” said Butcher.
Butcher said he’s not trying to stop news of the proceedings from being transmitted internationally.
It’s unclear whether the Polish government is seeking to charge the officers involved in the incident.
The matter of restricting the transcripts was adjourned until later.
Poland’s consul general in Vancouver is attending the inquiry as an observer.
For a third day, Const. Gerry Rundel, a two-year veteran of the force, was on the witness stand. Under aggressive questioning, Rundel said repeatedly that Dziekanski appeared to be acting aggressively when he picked up a stapler.
“In training, when anything is grabbed and somebody goes to a combative stance, that object — no matter what it is, whether it’s a stapler or anything else — is considered a weapon,” said Rundel.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that he took up a combative stance and he intended to harm us officers and anyone else in the public was also a possibility. No doubt in my mind.”
We do not have an active extradition treaty with Poland. Tooo bad. Murder? Right. What color is the grass on your planet?
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Wrong again. Its only after careful examination of ALL the facts, video statements (before & after), testimony and actions will Braidwood be able to determine exactly what happened and make his recommendations.
Divining what he was thinking does not add to the clarification of the issues. The facts of his previous medical/personal history may or may not shed light upon his actions.
With the information already known, I do not think his intelligence is in question.
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Since the crown has already given assurances that these four RCMP officers won’t be charged, there is only one avenue remaining to ensure that justice is done (and seen to be done). The Polish Government should charge these four officers with murder, extradite them and try them.
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I don’t think everyone agrees with this and as for Robert the Polish man, what was he facing standing there with four police officers fully armed in front of him?
Was he even intellegent enough to know what was taken place?
Was he himself trying to decode the actions of the officers who demonstrated by their very own actions that they were not interested in negotiations but rather there to subdue him…..
Was he even thinking he had a stappler in his hand and a better question would be, did he use it or anything against those four officers?
I think that statement “I’m Affraid” has been used to many times and may have been abused by some and allowed to go to far.
When there’s four police officers present and standing against one man they are not at all at a dis-avantage and how can their actions from the time they arrived at the scene and the parademics arrived not indicate to anyone what their intentions were.
The truth I would think will not be found in the stories, testimonies, statements or reports but rather in everyone’s actions which also includs the video footage.
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