BC Coroners Service: Vancouver Airport

Robert Dziekanski Dept: VANCOUVER - The BC Coroners Service says the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski in an altercation with RCMP officers at Vancouver's airport six years ago was a homicide, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Dziekanski, 40, who did not speak English, became agitated after spending more than nine hours wandering in the airport arrivals' area in October of 2007 and was confronted by four Mounties who stunned him several times with a Taser and Robert Dziekanski holds a small table at the Vancouver Airport before he was tasered by police in this image from video. The BC Coroner's Service says the death of Polish immigrant Dziekanski in an altercation with RCMP officers at Vancouver's airport six years ago was a homicide.Homicide is considered a neutral term in coroner's reports and does not apportion any blame.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Paul Pritchard Homicide is considered a neutral term in coroners' reports, meaning the death was caused by the actions of another person but it does not imply any blame. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.