One of the eyewitnesses who watched as Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski was Tasered by RCMP officers sat through an intensive cross-examination on Thursday.

Sima Ashrafinia responded to RCMP lawyers as they asked her about testimony she made at the Braidwood Inquiry on Wednesday.

The lawyers tried to verify her original statements to police about the October 2007 incident, but she testified that some of her statements were actually questions posed to the police.

"Did he deserve the Taser?"

Ashrafinia repeated the question she asked investigators to the courtroom at the inquiry.

"What I am saying right after that -- my question is maybe the Taser gun is not one size fits all...so I am questioning," she explained.

Throughout the episode at the security doors at Vancouver International Airport, she was the only person attempting to communicate with the confused man.

Ashrafinia has deaf siblings, and she used hand gestures to try to tell Dziekanski that police were coming.

She told the inquiry she made "handcuff" gestures because the police had already been called.

The question of the stapler that Dziekanski brandished came up and she was asked whether he had used it to threaten the Mounties.

"Mr. Dziekanski picked up the stapler -- a black stapler. He raised it like that. It wasn't swinging or waving."

When it was suggested by an RCMP lawyer that it wasn't a friendly gesture, she concurred.

"No. It was defensive gesture... that's how I translate it," she said.

Later she spoke to reporters.

"Worst case scenario is Robert grabbed this stapler and want to hit the officer -- Did he deserve to be Tasered five times?"

Also on Thursday, Alison Kula, who works for Horizon Air, watched Dziekanski's fatal encounter with police.

She told the inquiry that when police arrived, one asked about a Taser before they even encountered the Polish man.

Kula also said onlookers and security guards told the officers that Dziekanski didn't speak English.

With a report from CTV British Columbia's Peter Grainger and files from The Canadian Press.