Rally for Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver Art Gallery
Sima Ashrafinia, the passenger who spoke Polish and tried to calm an agitated Robert Dziekanski before he died, speaks to over one thousand people, many from the local Polish community, rallying for Dziekanski and demanding accountability from the RCMP and local police at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia, November 24, 2007. Polish immigrant Dziekanski died after being tasered several times and wrestled to the floor by RCMP officers as they attempted to arrest him at International Arrivals of YVR Vancouver Airport on October 14, 2007. (UPI Photo/Heinz Ruckemann)
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 19 (UPI) -- An investigator says four Canadian police officers are responsible for the death of a Polish immigrant stunned with a Taser at the Vancouver airport.
OTTAWA, May 4 (UPI) -- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Tuesday announced new restrictions on the use of stun guns following the death of a Polish immigrant.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 1 (UPI) -- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police formally apologized Thursday to the mother of a man who died after being shot five times with a stun gun in British Columbia.
OTTAWA, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Royal Canadian Mounted Police use of a stun gun on a man who died at the Vancouver airport in 2007 was "premature and inappropriate," a commission said.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- An investigation into the stun-gun death of a Polish immigrant at Vancouver International Airport has cost taxpayers $3.7 million, officials said.
WARSAW, Poland, June 2 (UPI) -- The mother of a Pole reportedly killed by Vancouver police wants to open the case in Poland after Canadian courts acquitted the officers, a lawyer said.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- An inquiry into the Taser-associated death of an immigrant in Vancouver will include testimony from four Canadian Mounties, a lawyer for the probe said.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Police officers involved in the Taser death of a man at the Vancouver airport appear to have violated recommendations in a 2005 report.
