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Hundreds honour man hit by Taser at airport

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/277476

Kamloops, B.C.-Hundreds of people packed a funeral home here yesterday to both grieve and express their outrage over the death of Robert Dziekanski, the Polish man who died last month at the Vancouver airport.

Many of those attending the memorial service in Kamloops, the town where Dziekanski was supposed to start his new life in Canada, only knew him through the lens of a video camera.

Millions of people around the world saw the video of his last moments - a panic-stricken man barricading himself into the international arrivals hall before police shot him with a Taser gun.

His mother, Zofia Cisowski, wiped away her tears to quietly narrate a slideshow of Dziekanski's photographs shown during the memorial celebration of the 40-year-old man's life."

That's my brother, that's my uncle, that's us,"

Cisowski whispered to pictures of her son, a smiling, swarthy man, arms wrapped around family in his native Poland.

Cisowski had worked for seven years to save up enough money to sponsor her son.

He was supposed to look after her and support her as she aged, according to Maciej Krych, Poland's consul general in Vancouver.

"The people in Poland are still in shock. They cannot believe something like this could happen in Canada,"

said Krych, who vowed that the Polish government will continue pressing the federal department of foreign affairs for answers.

Dziekanski was cremated following a private funeral two weeks ago.

His mother, who plans to keep part of her son's ashes with her in Kamloops and return part to Poland, said she hopes some good comes from her son's death. (...)

Among the nearly 300 people who attended the memorial service, a handful were outside carrying signs urging the RCMP to ban the use of Taser guns.

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day has ordered a review of the weapon, but has resisted calls by critics galvanized by Dziekanski's death for a moratorium on the guns, which deliver 50,000 volts of electricity to their targets.

Since 2002, Amnesty International, which has advocated banning Tasers, reports that 17 people have died in Canada as a result of the weapon. CLIP

Stop The Taser Petition

http://www.petitiononline.com/notasers/petition.html
Can we can deliver this with a couple hundred thousand signatures ?

Check also http://nomoretasers.com and http://truthnottasers.blogspot.com/

I've said it and said it: People who are having panic attacks and post traumatic stress episodes cannot be hit with tasars - and in fact, they DO fight back even though it will kill them - the MORE electricity runs through them, the MORE They fight back despite what the "training manuals" say.

In this particular case, there was never ever an emergency worker on the scene, although Robert was held in the airport for HOURS in distress. And yet, when the police DID come, and he calmed down they shot him and he died. Whether the TASAR did it or his neck was broken by the extreme police brutality applied, is yet to be determined.

Please sign and DON'T let there be a whitewash. We have already had 17 deaths here in Canada with tasars already. And there is an omnibus crime bill about to be passed to buy MORE of them; obviously the contract has been signed or Stockwell Day would not be taking this position.