Poland Probes Case Of Polish Man Who Died In Canada After Being Shocked By Taser
Posted November 28, 2007 12:00 pm.
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Polish courts are probing the death of a Polish man who died at a Vancouver airport after police used a Taser stun gun on him.
Prosecutors in victim Robert Dziekanski’s former hometown of Gliwice said they want to find out whether Canadian police officers “exceeded their authority and unintentionally caused the death.”
Dziekanski, 40, arrived at the airport on Oct. 14 with plans to start a new life with his mother in western Canada. But Dziekanski, who spoke only Polish and was travelling by air for the first time, began acting erratically at the airport.
He apparently became upset when he didn’t see his mother in the secure baggage area, which she reportedly wasn’t allowed to enter.
Police officers responding to reports of an aggressive man destroying property stunned Dziekanski with a Taser twice before roughly pinning him to the floor. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
