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The Canadian Press. RICHMOND, B.C. - The Vancouver Airport Authority says it will announce two weeks from now changes it's making because of the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski.
The airport authority's chief executive, Larry Berg, says the changes will be revealed at a news conference on Dec. 7. Dziekanski died in the airport's international arrivals terminal moments after RCMP shocked him twice with a Taser.
Police were called because the 40-year-old Dziekanski was agitated and unruly after spending 10 hours waiting in vain to rendezvous with his mother, Kamloops, B.C., resident Zofia Cisowski.
A video recording of Dziekanski's final moments sparked worldwide outrage and several reviews of Taser use by police in Canada ...
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Polish TV crew in B.C. to probe Dziekanski's death
Updated Fri. Nov. 23 2007 9:40 AM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
... Unlike Dziekanski, who was held in customs for about 10 hours, the crew of four were processed quickly Thursday and greeted by two YVR officials ready to answer questions.
CTV British Columbia's Peter Grainger also met the crew at the airport and showed them the flowers and tributes that have been left for Dziekanski ...
The TVN crew members plan to stay in Canada for the next 10 days and say they've been promised co-operation from many of the agencies involved in the incident.
On Saturday, the crew will be filming a rally for Dziekanski on the grounds of the Vancouver Art Gallery ...
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071123/taser_crew_071123/20071123?hub=CanadaCanada Probes Taser After Another Death
DARTMOUTH, Nova Scotia (AP) .... A Parliamentary public safety committee launched a probe Thursday into events surrounding the death of the Polish man, Robert Dziekanski. A police watchdog group and British Columbia's provincial government had already begun investigating the incident.
The Nova Scotia provincial government joined the string of investigations into Taser guns Thursday, asking the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to investigate the circumstances of the death of the 45-year-old man, whose identity has not been released.
The man died at a Canadian correctional facility, where he was being held on assault charges, after being shocked by a Taser stun gun Wednesday. The man died Thursday, 30 hours after being shocked. Police said the man had been taken into custody around midnight Wednesday and was being booked when he became exceedingly violent ...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jLQ5mYROE1aoqQl9uI8ljBSs6FZQD8T3FLL00MPs Want to Review Dziekanski Death
Josh Pringle
Friday, November 23, 2007
There are now seven probes underway into the use of Tasers or the death of Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver International Airport.
The Commons public safety committee is launching its own investigation into the death of the Polish immigrant October 14th.
The committee plans to call a wide range of witnesses, including RCMP officers, customs and immigration officials, airport workers and the company that makes the powerful stun guns ...
http://www.cfra.com/headlines/index.asp?cat=2&nid=53661Taser moratorium in place at Whitehorse jail
Last Updated: Friday, November 23, 2007 | 12:49 PM ET
CBC News
... In Whitehorse, Perrin said jail guards have used a Taser only once since it was introduced three years ago. Just the threat alone of being jolted with 50,000 volts of electricity is usually enough to make inmates comply with guards, he added.
"There are a number of cases where the individual seeing that the weapon has been drawn will make the decision not to act out any further," Perrin said.
A review of the one time the Taser was fired determined that its use was inappropriate, he said ...
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/11/23/whse-taser.htmlController proposes moratorium on Tasers
Fri, November 23, 2007
By JOE BELANGER, SUN MEDIA
... Barber said Coun. David Winninger failed last Monday to get the required two-thirds support to get a motion about a moratorium on the floor of city council for debate.
Whether the same request will go to the police services board is unknown. Winninger could not immediately be reached for comment ...
Locally the province's Special Investigations Unit is probing an Oct. 15 Taser incident involving London police in which a man suffered a heart attack. And, on Nov. 6, Sarnia police Tasered a knife-wielding man.
On Wednesday, former London police chief Julian Fantino, commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police, complained some are rushing to judgment on Dziekanski's death but remaining relatively quiet when officers are killed in the line of duty ...
Taser Shares Fall Following Inquiry
November 23, 2007 (FinancialWire)
Shares of stun gun maker Taser .. fell following an official inquiry into the death of an unarmed polish man at a Vancouver airport after he was shocked with the devices ...
A Maryland man died in a separate incident after being Tasereed last week, which led the NAACP to request an investigation ...
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