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Vancouver Airport and Benjamin Monty Robinson

Benjamin Monty Robinson: Former corporal Benjamin Monty Robinson was charged along with three other officers for their testimony at hearings that examined what happened when Dziekanski was stunned with a Taser at Vancouver airport and died in October 2007, according to Metro News. Robinson case had the most notoriety. He was the senior officer on the scene at the airport and was later convicted of obstruction of justice in an unrelated case involving a fatal vehicle accident and A former Mountie who was involved in Robert Dziekanski death and was later held up by the force as an example of a bad apple within its ranks was convicted Friday of perjury for his testimony at a public inquiry. He is the second of the officers to be convicted of perjury. One officer was acquitted and another is awaiting a verdict. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.