samkorn's blog

Re: "Dziekanski Tasering Was Justified, Inquiry Told"; Vancouver Sun, Oct.7,2009


Sure, blame the victim, as usual. Only in this case, he can't answer or defend himself - he's dead. You KILLED him!

What a poor and insensitive choice of words for RCMP lawyer, Ravi Hira, to tell Vancouver's Braidwood Inquiry that Robert Dziekanski "deserved to be stunned."

Shame on Hira, despite all the revelations of RCMP misconduct and incompetence at the Inquiry so far, for attempting to put the entire blame for this unfortunate incident on the victim, Robert Dziekanski, and claim that he got what he deserved.

No matter how distraught, disoriented and disheveled Dziekanski appeared to be at Vancouver's airport on October 14, 2007, the newly-arrived Polish immigrant did NOT "deserve" to be tazed to death.

Let's hope the lawyers defending Montreal Police, in the upcoming Freddy Villanueva inquest in Quebec, don't make the same mistake in their legal arguments. Villanueva was the innocent, unarmed 18 year-old Montreal North youth shot to death by SPCUM cops a year ago when he came to the aid of his older brother, who was being roughed up by those same cops.

Words do matter!