@therapy new york – a year later now, i’ve been told that vancouver airport is now “armed” with many, many more languages. from what i understand, that is a direct outcome from this case.

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The way I see it this unfortunate man was killed by a process that we have let get into the hands of heartless bureaucrats, who have little imagination and most of all little sense of responsibility for their actions, or lack of action. There were several breakdowns in the processing of this non-English speaker in Vancouver Airport.

To begin with he must have shown signs of agitation on the plane and then going through Canada Immigration at YVR. Why was this simple fact not recognized by anybody responsible right away and within the first hour of his getting off the plane and onto YVR premises?

Our bureaucrats who are in charge of the no-contact zone in YVR between exiting the plane and going into the arrivals area took no real responsibility for this unfortunate man for 10 hours.

Then there is the case of how YVR officials dealt with inquiries by his mother during the six hours that she was in YVR waiting and looking for her son! Once again the issue of the complete blackout that has been allowed to exist in the process between exiting the plane and getting to the arrivals area caused this man’s only contact in Canada to turn away from the airport while her son experienced more and more isolation and disorientation with a process that completely failed him when he was most in need of simple human decency and understanding.

Is there no person in charge of what happens to anybody in that process? Is it really necessary that people who have exited a plane at YVR and who are being processed by Immigration Canada and Customs Canada must be held in a virtual no-mans land with no possibility of communications to the outside or communications into it?

Given the almost completely negative record, over the last few years, of handling people exhibiting extraordinary behaviours in Vancouver it seems that we all condone heartless and brutal handling by agents responsible for “peace and protection”.

We includes newspapers, TV, political leaders, and all of us apparently normal people who know how to navigate our way from the exit of a plane arriving at YVR to the arrivals area, without the threat of taser assault, forced asphixiation, or delirium

Mr. Dziekanski was killed by a process handled by unfeeling and robotic bureaucrats, no matter the direct or indirect causes of his final death struggle.

I saw on the CBC the other day that Canada is jailing more and more people who suffer from mental illness. The system is failing to help these people, and using made-up mental conditions to justify police violence is only going to make things worse. The police have a responsibility to serve and protect all citizens, not just those ones who do not suffer from mental illness.

Anyway, the guy was running around Vancouver Airport for hours. Most major airports have specialists trained in managing distraught passengers, and they have multi-lingual capabilities. I’m with you, Isabella. Why did the GVAA send in armed mounties instead of a social worker?