Fearandloathing wrote:Posted 2009/06/19
at 5:01 PM ETFinal arguments in the Braidwood inquiry have been postponed until September 22 after a revelation Friday that the RCMP failed to bring forward a crucial piece of evidence.
Holding back tears, the lawyer for the Government of Canada Helen Roberts informed the inquiry that an e-mail purporting that the four officers who tasered Robert Dziekanski had planned to do so before they even entered the airport. Roberts said the failure to produce the evidence was an “oversight.”
Justice Braidwood, in a rare show of disgust, told the inquiry he was “appalled”.
The development opens the possibility of witnesses, especially the four officers, will be recalled to give explanations.
The claim is in direct contrast to sworn testimony by each of the officers who claimed there had been so such discussion and that the decision to taser Dziekanski came only as a result of his “threatening” actions at the time, a claim highly disputed.
The email is apparently between a senior manager and Superintendent Wayne Rideout in which members of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, IHIT, are quoted as saying the four Mounties decided to taser the man in a brief meeting on their way into the airport.
Rideout, also a major witness at the inquiry made no mention of any such email in testimony.
While closing arguments are delayed, it is expected the inquiry will resume and begin hearing evidence on this single issue.
If true, it almost certainly makes a lie of the sworn testimony of the four officers whose testimony is already in direct opposition to the video of traveler Paul Pritchard who had to sue the RCMP to have it returned after it was illegal seized.
at 5:01 PM ETFinal arguments in the Braidwood inquiry have been postponed until September 22 after a revelation Friday that the RCMP failed to bring forward a crucial piece of evidence.
Holding back tears, the lawyer for the Government of Canada Helen Roberts informed the inquiry that an e-mail purporting that the four officers who tasered Robert Dziekanski had planned to do so before they even entered the airport. Roberts said the failure to produce the evidence was an “oversight.”
Justice Braidwood, in a rare show of disgust, told the inquiry he was “appalled”.
The development opens the possibility of witnesses, especially the four officers, will be recalled to give explanations.
The claim is in direct contrast to sworn testimony by each of the officers who claimed there had been so such discussion and that the decision to taser Dziekanski came only as a result of his “threatening” actions at the time, a claim highly disputed.
The email is apparently between a senior manager and Superintendent Wayne Rideout in which members of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, IHIT, are quoted as saying the four Mounties decided to taser the man in a brief meeting on their way into the airport.
Rideout, also a major witness at the inquiry made no mention of any such email in testimony.
While closing arguments are delayed, it is expected the inquiry will resume and begin hearing evidence on this single issue.
If true, it almost certainly makes a lie of the sworn testimony of the four officers whose testimony is already in direct opposition to the video of traveler Paul Pritchard who had to sue the RCMP to have it returned after it was illegal seized.
39
2 The part that disturbs me the most in this situation is that you can hear a lady state that "he is speaking Russian or something." Yet the officers still continued into the room to confront him, when none of them could communicate with him.