Chilling audio recordings have been released of telephone and radio conversations at Vancouver's airport the night Robert Dziekanski died after being jolted by a police Taser in October 2007.
The recordings, which were entered into evidence Thursday at the Braidwood Inquiry, include calls from airport security and witnesses as the Polish immigrant started throwing furniture.
In one tape, a security guard asks for an ambulance because Dziekanski had been stunned with a Taser.
In another, a woman pleads for help as sounds of Dziekanski throwing furniture against glass walls are heard in the background.
The final recording includes someone informing an operator that the man who was shocked had died, asking for a message to be passed on to supervisors.
Although the recordings were released to several media Thursday afternoon, the inquiry has still not heard them.
Dziekanski was jolted five times within seconds of four officers arriving, and died a short time later.
The inquiry is expected to run for at least four more weeks, after which Thomas Braidwood will write a report that will make recommendations and could also include findings of police misconduct.
The inquiry has already heard about Dziekanski's long, 21-hour journey to Canada from Poland, and the hours he spent unnoticed in Vancouver's airport customs hall, possibly sleeping, before finally making his way through immigration and customs.
The officers who dealt with Dziekanski didn't call a translator, saying they could process him properly without one.
Witnesses have also said Dziekanski was calm, polite and obedient as he was processed, which appears at odds with police accounts that he was aggressive, erratic and confused in the hours before his death.
Braidwood oversaw another inquiry last year, a study commission broadly examining Tasers and their use, and a report from that phase is expected early this year.
With files from The Canadian Press
