One of Robert Dziekanski’s killers walked out of court a free man today. RCMP Const. Bill Bentley will soon be back on the streets, serving and protecting. Try not to make eye contact.
With his three colleagues, Bentley had claimed that the distraught Robert Dziekanski had charged towards them, brandishing a stapler. The famous video, however, shown in court, proved the opposite: Dziekanski was standing in place, not waving the stapler, and then crumpled from the first of several Taser blasts.
But the judge, Mark McEwan, had clearly made up his mind before the trial had even ended. Did he snooze through the video? Or was he just hopelessly biased?
Go directly to @6:40. You be the judge.