‘We rarely have our facts straight early on’
Who is keeping them accountable? May 7th, 2009 · Raphael Alexander (National Post Editorial) - Just when you think nothing more scandalous could be discovered at the Braidwood Inquiry overseeing the taser-related death of 40-year-old Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport on October 14, 2007, the former commanding officer in charge of investigating the death today defended the RCMP decision to maintain erroneous information publicly for 14 months. The preliminary reports of the death have been contradicted by actual testimony during the Braidwood Inquiry, leading many people to speculate there has been an attempted RCMP cover-up. RCMP Superintendent Wayne Rideout explained that he did not correct falsified reports in the media because his “[...] belief at the time is we needed to protect the facts we were gathering”. He said that it was his decision not to release any further facts about the case, although they allowed the preliminary reports of Mr.Dziekanski being combative, resistant, and only fired upon with the taser twice to stand. “We rarely have our facts straight early on,” he explained. Well...that’s very interesting of them to say. Does that mean that if the police rarely have their facts straight early in a case, is it at all possible for the RCMP to immediately exonerate the officers involved? To decide that they had all acted “appropriately”? Of course not
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