So Much Fail…

We just won’t participate?

The RCMP won’t fully participate in a public inquiry into the death of a Polish immigrant who died shortly after he was jolted with a police Taser at the Vancouver airport if the officers involved could still face charges, a RCMP spokesman said Thursday.

The second phase of the inquiry into Robert Dziekanski’s death on Oct. 14, 2007, is scheduled to begin next month in Vancouver and several groups have applied for standing.

The RCMP, who have not submitted an application, were given an extension until Friday.

But Sgt. Tim Shields said the force can’t make that decision until it knows whether any of the four officers who confronted Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport will face criminal charges.

That is some specious reasoning. If they could be found to have behaved inappropriately they will not show up or release their report into the matter itself? It’s pretty clear what happened. The RCMP officers showed contempt for human life and the continuum of force. They resorted directly to torturing an individual, eventually killing him, with an electro-shock weapon before even bothering to talk with the man or finding someone who could properly communicate with him.

So the people we ask to maintain the rule of law and arrest people for violation of said laws are now willfully going to ignore the law? Fantastic work, gentlemen. You should be ashamed of yourselves and the stain you put on the badge you wear.