The B.C. government will appoint a special prosecutor to examine whether charges should be laid against Mounties involved in the death of Robert Dziekanski.

Prosecutors had already ruled out charges, saying the officers' actions were warranted given the situation, and that charges would not be laid.

But the inquiry into Dziekanski's 2007 death at Vancouver's airport concluded that the officers' justification for Tasering him were "patently unbelievable."

The inquiry's final report called the officers' actions "shameful" and described their testimony as largely untrue and self-serving.

The judge who led the public inquiry into Dziekanski's death concluded that the Polish immigrant was not aggressive with the Mounties who unjustifiably confronted him with a Taser in the moments before he died.

Judge Thomas Braidwood released his findings in a new report and spoke about the inquiry's findings at a press conference in Vancouver on Friday morning.

B.C. Attorney General Mike de Jong said the province recognizes the inquiry's recommendations and plans to create a civilian body that will probe serious incidents involving police in the province.

Braidwood said that Dziekanski suffered "accumulated stress and agitation" in the hours leading up to his death on Oct. 14, 2007.

Dziekanski was a 40-year-old Polish immigrant who flew to Vancouver, hoping to live in Canada with his mother, Zofia Cisowski.

After a 20-hour flight from Poland, Dziekanski landed in Vancouver in the afternoon and was stuck in a processing area for the next nine-and-half hours. Then came a physical altercation with RCMP officers that included him being hit with a Taser five times.

When the Mounties were called to respond to a report of a man who was reported to be throwing furniture around. They were warned that the man was suspected of being drunk.

After initially responding to the scene in a professional manner, the RCMP officers started acting in an "inappropriate and aggressive manner," Braidwood said.

"Mr. Dziekanski turned away and picked up a stapler, at which point one of the constables deployed the conducted energy weapon against him," said Braidwood, who further said the RCMP officer holding the Taser was "not justified in deploying the weapon."

Braidwood said the Mounties engaged in physical contact with Dziekanski for about 75 seconds, with the Polish immigrant suffering cardiac arrest within the next 25 seconds or so.

The inquiry judge said he did not believe the officer's claims that they felt threatened by the stapler-wielding Dziekanski and said the Polish citizen was neither "defiant nor resistant" with the Mounties.

"Mr. Dziekanski in no way brought this on himself," Braidwood said when answering a follow-up question from a reporter at the Friday press conference.

Braidwood said the footage of Dziekanski's death, which was widely broadcast, "shocked and repulsed people around the world."

That same footage eventually helped spawn the two-part, $5-million inquiry that Braidwood led, which collected evidence from dozens of witnesses during much of last year.

Family expects changes

Prior to the release of the inquiry report, Walter Kosteckyj, the lawyer representing Dzeikanski's mother, said he expected that the inquiry's findings will change the way Tasers are used by police forces in Canada.

"The Vancouver police chief has already said that they are waiting to hear what is said so that they can adjust properly their procedures and policies," he told CTV News Channel during a telephone interview from Vancouver on Friday morning. "So, I expect that other police forces will also be doing that."

The Mounties have already been hit with criticism over their handling of the incident involving Dziekanski at the airport.

A previous report from the former RCMP complaints commissioner found that the Mounties used "premature and inappropriate" force against Dziekanski by employing a Taser.

It also found that the officers failed to respond to the situation appropriately.

Paul Kennedy, the former RCMP complaints commissioner, predicted the Braidwood report will back up the findings of his own report.

"I'm sure he's going to have to look at the performances of the officers and their credibility, and I hope that his findings mesh with mine," Kennedy said the day before the report.

The Mounties also settled a civil lawsuit that was launched by Dziekanski's mother in the wake of her son's death.

She also received an apology from the RCMP. But the financial details of the settlement have not been made public.

Following the release of the report, Cisowski thanked the people of B.C. for pushing for the inquiry into her son's death and Braidwood for leading it.

With files from The Canadian Press