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NAME: CAN FUNERAL 20071118I TAPE: EF07/1390 IN_TIME: 10:48:37:21 DURATION: 00:02:08:06 SOURCES: CBC/CTV DATELINE: Vancouver/Kamloops - 17 Nov 2007/FILE RESTRICTIONS: No Access Canada SHOTLIST: CBC - No Access Canada Vancouver, British Columbia - 17 November 2007 1 People arriving for memorial service at airport 2 Pan of crowd 3 Close-up people signing condolence book 4 Pan of crowd CBC - No Access Canada Kamloops, British Columbia - 17 November 2007 5 Close-up priest arriving 6 Mid shot people filing into funeral home 7 SOUNDBITE: (English) No name given, local resident: (Question: Do you know the family?) No, I don't No, I don't We just want to be here as part of the Kamloops family and the Canadian family to show how much we care 8 Close-up candle and picture of Robert Dziekanski 9 Wide shot of service CBC - No Access Canada FILE: Vancouver, British Columbia - 14 October 2007 10 Various of Amateur video of the Taser incident in Vancouver airport CBC - No Access Canada Kamloops, British Columbia - 17 Nov 2007 11 Various of Zofia Cisowski, Robert Dziekanski's mother arriving for funeral service, being hugged 12 SOUNDBITE: (English) No name given, mourner: You are here in support of a mother who has lost her only son You are here to honour the life of that son (part overlaid by shot 12) 13 Various close-up photographs of Dziekanski as a child 14 SOUNDBITE: (English) Jurek Baltakis, Dziekanski family friend: People become good by doing good, Robert said 15 Various of people outside funeral home protesting against use of Tasers 16 SOUNDBITE: (English) Riki Bagnell, Robert Dziekanski's friend: People all over the world are taking note of the brutal side effects of this supposedly less than lethal form of subjugation (includes cutaway of congregation) 17 Close-up Cisowski weeping 18 SOUNDBITE: (English) Zofia Cisowski, Robert Dziekanski's mother: (begins on shot 16) My family loved him so much They cry all the time They phone to me from Poland and I love him so much CTV - No Access Canada FILE: Date and location unknown 19 Dziekanski's body being taken away STORYLINE: Mourners in Canada gathered on Saturday for a memorial service at Vancouver airport and then for the funeral of a Polish man who died last month at Vancouver airport after a confrontation with police At the site of Robert Dziekanski's death, after he was Tasered by Canadian police, hundreds packed a memorial service and signed a condolence book on Saturday Few of the mourners at the memorial service knew Dziekanski, but hundreds more packed the funeral home to grieve with his mother and express their outrage at his death People all over the world are taking note of the brutal side effects of this supposedly less than lethal form of subjugation, said Robert Dziekanski's friend, Riki Bagnell For millions of people around the world, their only picture of Dziekanski is from a video of his last moments It shows a panic-stricken man barricading himself in the international arrivals hall before police shoot him with a Taser gun His mother wiped away tears to narrate a slideshow of photographs of Dziekanski during the memorial celebration of the 40-year-old man's life Zofia Cisowski said after the ceremony My family loved him so much They cry all the time They phone to me from Poland and I love him so much Canadian authorities said on Saturday that four police officers involved in Dziekanski's death had been assigned other duties Dziekanski, of Gliwice, in Poland, was shot by officers using a Taser stun gun a month ago at Vancouver International Airport Eighteen people have died in Canada after being hit with a Taser in the last four years The video shot by a bystander shows officers zapping a distressed Dziekanski twice, 46 seconds after arriving on the scene, and then physically subduing him on the floor Dziekanski died at the scene It was to be the start of a new life for Dziekanski with his mother in western Canada Dziekanski, who spoke only Polish, was said to have been acting erratically at the airport He apparently became upset when he didn't see his mother after waiting for about 10 hours in the secure baggage area, which she wasn't allowed to enter The authorities said several investigations would be conducted, including those by a homicide unit and the coroner's office in British Columbia, and an independent commission that looks into complaints against the Royal Canadian Mounted Police