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Robert Dziekański, (:ˈrɔbɛrt dʑeˈkaɲski) (April 15, 1967October 14, 2007) was a Polish immigrant to Canada who was killed on October 14, 2007 during an arrest at the Vancouver Airport. He was tasered five times by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), who encountered Dziekański while he was unarmed and detained alone in a secured room at the Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, British Columbia. Full details of the incident became public because Paul Pritchard, an eyewitness, filmed a video of it. The police initially took possession of the video, refusing to return it to Pritchard. Pritchard went to court to obtain it, then released it to the press. The final inquiry report released Friday June 18, 2010 concluded the RCMP were not justified in using a Taser against Mr. Dziekański and that the officers later deliberately misrepresented their actions to investigators. ==Incident== Robert Dziekański was a construction worker by trade, but had also worked as a miner.〔http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20071121_170056_9496〕 He was in the process of emigrating from Gliwice, Poland, to live with his mother, Zofia Cisowski, in Kamloops, British Columbia. Dziekański's flight was two hours late, and arrived at about 3:15 pm on October 13, 2007.〔 〕〔 〕 According to official sources, Dziekański required language support to complete initial customs formalities. After he completed initial immigration processing, his whereabouts between 4:00 p.m. and about 10:45 p.m. remain unclear, though at various points he was seen around the baggage carousels.〔 Dziekański's mother, Zofia Cisowski, had told him to wait for her at the baggage claim area but it was a secured area where she was not allowed to enter.〔 At 10:45 p.m., when he attempted to leave the Customs hall, he was directed again to secondary immigration as his visa had not yet been processed.〔 Dziekański's immigration procedures were completed at about 12:15 a.m. on October 14.〔〔 After 30 minutes in an immigration waiting area, he was taken to the international arrivals reception area.〔 Cisowski had been making enquiries of airport staff since the early afternoon.〔http://www.gazetagazeta.com/artman/publish/article_22736.shtml〕 Airport staff told her Dziekański was not at the airport and she had returned to Kamloops at about 10 p.m., believing her son had missed his flight.〔〔 〕 When Dziekański left the Customs hall, he became visibly agitated. Bystanders and airport security guards were unable to communicate with him because he did not speak English.〔 He used chairs to prop open the one-way doors between a Customs clearing area and a public lounge and at one point threw a computer and a small table to the floor before the police arrived.〔 〕 Four RCMP officers, Constables Gerry Rundel, Bill Bently, Kwesi Millington, and supervisor Corporal Benjamin Robinson, arrived and entered the Customs room where Dziekański was pacing about. They apparently directed him to stand near a counter, to which Dziekański complied but picked up a stapler sometime after being told to place his hands on a counter.〔 〕〔 〕 Shortly thereafter, about 25 seconds after arriving at the scene, Corporal Robinson ordered the Taser to be used. Constable Millington tasered Dziekański. He began to convulse and was tasered several more times after falling to the ground, where the four officers pinned, handcuffed, and continued to taser him. One eyewitness, who recorded the incident on her cellphone, told CBC News that Dziekański had been tasered four times. "The third and fourth ones were at the same time" delivered by the officers at Dziekański's right and left, just before Dziekański fell.〔〔 According to B.C. Crown counsel spokesman Stan Lowe, Dziekański was tasered a total of five times.〔 Constable Millington testified that he deployed the Taser four times, but he believed that in some of those instances the probes may not have contacted Dziekański's body. Dziekański writhed and screamed before he stopped moving. Cpl. Benjamin Monty Robinson stated he then checked for a pulse, but his heart had stopped. Testimony from the other RCMP officers state they never saw anyone including Robinson check for a pulse.〔 〕 Dziekański did not receive CPR until paramedics arrived on the scene approximately 15 minutes later. They were unable to revive him and pronounced him dead at the scene.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Dziekański Taser incident」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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