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The Dziekanski Inquiry: Canada’s International Claim To Shame

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

A confused and frustrated immigrant flew into Vancouver from Poland and spent 10 hours waiting to see his mother. During the course of his frustration, he was approached by RCMP Officers, tasered, handcuffed, jumped on and eventually died.

This incident was fortunately caught on someone’s cell phone. The cell phone footage caught the RCMP in a myriad of lies.


The media has since played the footage quite frequently when analyzing every different angle that this story has to offer. It is footage that is hard to watch as it records the last minutes of a man’s life before he was assaulted by the officers. It is hard not to be affected by the man’s cries of pain after being tasered a number of times.
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