Polish Community Seeks Answers in Man's Death After Taser Use At
Posted on: Thursday, 25 October 2007, 21:00 CDT
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER - Vancouver's Polish community is demanding answers in the death of a man at Vancouver International Airport after he was zapped by a Taser gun in a confrontation with police.
About 100 people gathered at the Polish Community Centre to express their outrage and share similar stories of frustration about the airport and immigration procedures.
One woman called the police "dogs" for the way they dealt with Robert Dziekanski after the 40-year-old man emerged in violent rage from a secure area at the airport almost 10 hours after his flight had arrived.
Both the Polish consul general and the president of the Canadian Polish Congress urged airport officials to make better services available to newly arrived immigrants and their families.
Many in the crowd, along with Dziekanski's mother, shared stories of waiting long hours for their loved ones at the airport and not being able to get any information.
The dead man's mother, Zofia Cisowski, waited seven hours for her son and was told repeatedly that no one could help her - so she returned home to Kamloops, B.C., where a phone message brought her back to Vancouver to learn the news of his death.
Source: Canadian Press
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