Robert Dziekanski tasered by the RCMP at Vancouver Airport (complete video by Paul Pritchard)
VANCOUVER–The mother of a Polish man who died at Vancouver’s airport after being jolted by an RCMP Taser wants charges laid against those responsible.
Zofia Cisowski is asking Poland to re-open its investigation into Robert Dziekanski’s death.
Poland suspended its investigation last year because it said it wasn’t getting information or evidence from Canadian authorities.
Cisowski has hired lawyers in Canada and Poland to convince Polish prosecutors to investigate the death with the potential of charging those responsible and bringing them to trial.
Bystander video released after Dziekanski’s death showed the four Mounties confronting the man, jolting him with a Taser and then Dziekanski dying on the floor of the airport.
Crown prosecutors announced last December that the officers wouldn’t be charged, saying they acted with reasonable force in the circumstances.
Cisowski’s Canadian lawyer, Bill Sundhu, says the objective is to ensure that there’s accountability and justice done in what they believe was a wrongful death at the hands of the RCMP.
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