A Tazered Son: Will Mrs. Dziekanski's Questions be Answered?

My condolences to Mrs. Dziekanski on the tragic death of her son Robert.

The incomprehensible drama of the breaking story of an unarmed Polish
passenger, Robert Dziekanski, tazered by a police officer at Vancouver airport
will be gone in a few weeks time. However, will Mrs. Dziekanski's question's be
answered about the death of her son, if so when? In any event, she is now living
with the grief of loss.

Further, will the truth be told in any investigation about these cowardly
acts?

Of course somebody is responsible for Mr. Dziekanski's death so the general
public will look forward to any investigation into the affair by a non-police
led panel and the publication of an unbiased report that is becoming of a
democratic country.

I would like to express my sympathy to the police officers who undoubtedly
suffered as they exhibited fearful behaviour in applying 'neck breaking'
pressure with an officer's whose body-weight bearing down to his leg which was
across Robert Dziekanski's neck grinding it into the floor.

This action could quite  easily have restricted the victims breathing, not to
mention pulled neck muscles, or even breaking the victims neck.

The officer with the tazer gun must also have been suffering great fear when
he was  in front of the passive, unarmed, Mr. Dziekanski, and being afraid
he fired his tazer at him more than once at close range: Mr. Dziekanski died at
the scene.

Meanwhile the terrible stress that Mrs. Dziekanski's must have experienced is
of a mother who could not help her son at the airport, and then to witness his
death on the television news.

She saw the vido imigary when her son was approached be a number of police
officers who all, apparently, ' feared for their lives' from a tired and perhaps
disoriented man who was killed as he was ignored by different airport "authorities" for about ten
hours before his death. So whose is the guilt in this drama?

For any mother who loses a child, no matter at what age, she will
take the responsibility of the death, arguing that as a mother she should have
been able to prevent it. Therefore, she will see herself as being responsible
for not being able to assist Robert after he arrived at Vancouver airport.

Hopefully she will not die of her heart wrenching grief.

I wonder if Mrs. Dziekanski's thought that when Robert arrived at Vancouver
the airline, or airport would provide passenger support for the son who spoke no
English?

There was no assistance. Instead a welcome reminiscent of former
occupations of Poland caught up with him.

Robert probably was not informed that airport services in Canada are
"outsourced" meaning that private contractors are responsible for providing the
low quality of service that is standard to the ordinary class passenger: neither
business nor first class passengers would ever tolerate this level of service
so they are less likely to be exposed to it.

Now we wait for Canadian justice to take its course; or will expensive spin
doctors win the day? I fervorently hope that Mrs. Dziekanski's grief will not be
compounded nor that her life shortened by her sudden and tragic loss.