RCMP to offer formal apology and cash to mother of Robert Dziekanski in taser death.

[rafterman]

Any ramifications to the officers involved or those who lied and tried to cover up the real facts?

RCMP to apologize to Dziekanski's mother
Last Updated: Thursday, April 1, 2010 | 7:05 AM ET Comments173Recommend71CBC News
Zofia Cisowski says the police investigation into her son's death was too focused on his actions, rather than the those of the four Mounties. (CBC)
The RCMP intends to offer a formal apology and a financial settlement to compensate the mother of Robert Dziekanski, a Polish man who died at the Vancouver airport after RCMP officers used a Taser to subdue him.

The CBC has learned that Gary Bass, the RCMP deputy commissioner for the Pacific region, is scheduled to appear at a news conference Thursday morning, where he will offer the RCMP's apology to Zofia Cisowski, Dziekanski's mother.

Dziekanski died in October 2007, after four RCMP officers used a Taser on him at Vancouver International Airport.

It's not clear how Thursday's apology will differ from the first apology offered by RCMP deputy commissioner Bill Sweeney in May 2009 at a Senate committee hearing in Ottawa.

The RCMP's second-in-command said the force was "very sorry" for the death of Robert Dziekanski, but he stopped short of admitting the Mounties made a mistake.

Cisowski is expected to be at the conference when Bass makes his apology. The details of the financial settlement are being kept confidential.

British Columbia's solicitor general and the Canadian Border Services Agency have also drafted letters expressing their regret for Dziekanski's death, sources said.

In October 2009, Cisowski filed a lawsuit against the federal and provincial government, four RCMP officers and the Vancouver International Airport for the loss of her son. Sources have told CBC News it's expected that Cisowski will now drop the suit.



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/04/01/rcmp-dziekanski-apology.html#ixzz0juN7Jij6

 

[red]

How the fuck can the FEDERAL police force be allowed to keep a financial settlement confidential when it is taxpayer money they are spending.

Just goes to show how fundamentally unanswerable to the public police forces are.

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[danmand]

Apology OK, but what is being done to change rules for use of tazers?

 

[Cycleguy007]

How the fuck can the FEDERAL police force be allowed to keep a financial settlement confidential when it is taxpayer money they are spending.

Just goes to show how fundamentally unanswerable to the public police forces are.

The lunatics are running the asylum...

 

[oldjones]

The lunatics are running the asylum...

What a mean thing to say about our Mounties! Or their bosses. Not that I'm disputing it, mind you.

 

[rafterman]

Actually, I heard on the CBC radio news that his mother's lawyer requested confidentiality on the settlement amount to protect her "privacy".

 

[oldjones]

Actually, I heard on the CBC radio news that his mother's lawyer requested confidentiality on the settlement amount to protect her "privacy".

While the Mounties were the direct agents of the man's death, the real cause was the unbelievable incompetence of the Border Services—what the hell does servicing a border really mean anyway—who bravely protected the country from the unauthorized entry of an eighty-year old woman into their secure baggage area. An area they had so efficiently secured that they allowed a man to wander—with his baggage and whatever he might have concealed in it—without their knowledge or concern for ten hours. They couldn't even be bothered to politely direct him to an exit, let alone consider he might be a threat (the Mounties certainly claimed he was a threat).

As in other cases, like unauthorized searches of homes, these guys have revealed themselves as complete clowns. Whether they inherited that from their days as Customs and Immigration, or invented it with their new name I can't say, but it's a shame the media ignored their apology.

They owe us one big time, as well.

 

[blackrock13]

While the Mounties were the direct agents of the man's death, the real cause was the unbelievable incompetence of the Border Services—what the hell does servicing a border really mean anyway—who bravely protected the country from the unauthorized entry of an eighty-year old woman into their secure baggage area. An area they had so efficiently secured that they allowed a man to wander—with his baggage and whatever he might have concealed in it—without their knowledge or concern for ten hours. They couldn't even be bothered to politely direct him to an exit, let alone consider he might be a threat (the Mounties certainly claimed he was a threat).


As in other cases, like unauthorized searches of homes, these guys have revealed themselves as complete clowns. Whether they inherited that from their days as Customs and Immigration, or invented it with their new name I can't say, but it's a shame the media ignored their apology.

They owe us one big time, as well.

Don't worry too much about this phrasing. It's just a PC term for 'Force'. No one wants their officers to be connected to a 'Force'. It's too scary a term. We don't have Police Forces or Armed Forces any more. It's Police Services and Armed Services. It's that simple and really dumb. Even manhole covers are now referred to as 'maintenance/service covers', ffs.

 

[nottyboi]

While the Mounties were the direct agents of the man's death, the real cause was the unbelievable incompetence of the Border Services—what the hell does servicing a border really mean anyway—who bravely protected the country from the unauthorized entry of an eighty-year old woman into their secure baggage area. An area they had so efficiently secured that they allowed a man to wander—with his baggage and whatever he might have concealed in it—without their knowledge or concern for ten hours. They couldn't even be bothered to politely direct him to an exit, let alone consider he might be a threat (the Mounties certainly claimed he was a threat).

As in other cases, like unauthorized searches of homes, these guys have revealed themselves as complete clowns. Whether they inherited that from their days as Customs and Immigration, or invented it with their new name I can't say, but it's a shame the media ignored their apology.

They owe us one big time, as well.

I don't agree, while the airport and border agents all screwed up, these RCMP clowns were a ticking time bomb. If they had not killed this poor bastard, they would have eventually killed someone else. (on of them did actually). The biggest scandal here is still the absolute impunity of RCMP officers.

 

[Bif_Butkiss]

If you or I were to murder someone we'd get at least 10 to 25 years to life in jail..... And what do these CLOWNS get???? ALL they have to do is to "offer" an apology and give her some money. More beaurocratic hypocracy.
Obviously there are 2 (or more) sets of law(s) in our society..... One that we as Canadian Citizens have to follow and another for Cops.