VANCOUVER (Reuters) - "Shameful conduct" by Canadian police officers led to the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski in a stun gun incident at Vancouver's airport that drew world attention, an inquiry said on Friday.
The officers acted as if they were responding to a "barroom brawl" and were too aggressive when it was clear they were only dealing with a man who was distraught and confused on arriving in a new homeland, the inquiry said.
"This case is, at its heart, the story of shameful conduct by a few officers," inquiry head Thomas Braidwood wrote in his report, which also accuses the officers of making misleading statements to justify their actions.
"Mister Dziekanski in no way brought this upon himself," Braidwood, a retired provincial judge, told reporters in Vancouver. "He was not aggressive in any manner".
The Polish government, which participated in the provincial inquiry, asked Canadian prosecutors on Friday to reconsider their earlier decision not to file criminal charges against the four Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers.
