Video of (Vancouver airport) taser victim erased

[Newsjock]

Source: Vancouver Sun

Several hours of surveillance footage recorded at Vancouver airport the night Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski was Tasered and died were inadvertently erased by the Canada Border Services Agency a week after his death, The Vancouver Sun has learned.

The mistake is revealed in a series of internal CBSA e-mails on the Dziekanski matter released to The Sun in response to an Access to Information request.

Dziekanski was Tasered by the RCMP early on Oct. 14, 2007 after he began behaving erratically in a secure area of the airport -- pacing and throwing items against a glass wall.

... The officer who reviewed the footage copied all the clips he found of Dziekanski onto a video disk.

However, weeks later, the CBSA decided it should take another look at all the footage to make sure it didn't miss anything.

... Unfortunately, by that point the original footage had all been erased.

Read more: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=c20be130-f01d-4cac-b72f-604c4c53105d&k=38257

[Jim Sagle]

1. The dog ate the footage.

[gtar100]

2. Surprise, surprise.

They can give whatever excuse they like. It's all too self-serving to be a coincidence or accident.

[Auntie Bush]

7. Just like all the bush* white house emails were erased. Ooops ...I'm sorry!

What ya gonna do about it? :shrug:

[BunkerHill24]

3. I recall watching amateur video of the whole incident

on CBC news....I doubt it matters what the Canadian Border Services erased.

[SteinbachMB]

4. Yes

the video footage will be out there.

[annabanana]

5. "inadvertently erased "

Does ANYONE believe this?

[slampoet]

6. Accidental or not this is a felony of destroying evidence.

WHY IS NO ONE SERVING JAIL TIME FOR ANYTHING?

[rcsl1998]

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