A man who videotaped an airport confrontation with RCMP officers that preceded the death of Polish immigrant Paul Dziekanski said that officers were ready to Taser the man moments after they arrived.

"As they ran in, I heard one of the officers say 'Can I Taser him,' or 'Should I Taser him' -- before they actually even got to Mr. Dziekanski,'' Paul Pritchard, 25, said at a press conference held in Victoria, B.C., on Thursday.

"As soon as they crossed through the doors, within five seconds they kind of flushed him behind a desk and right away they Tasered him."

Dziekanski, 40, died after the confrontation with police while he was held in a secure area of Vancouver International Airport in mid-October.

A preliminary autopsy report on Dziekanski showed he had no signs of trauma, disease, or any other indicators that would lead to an obvious cause of death.

Pritchard had been waiting for a flight when he saw Dziekanski "acting a little bit strange." After 25 minutes of ranting, he decided to tape the scene and recorded the confrontation between him and police.

He agreed to lend the RCMP his camera and the high-quality footage after being promised they would return both in 48 hours.

He was later told it would be as long as two and a half years before the footage would be returned.

"It made me feel pretty used," he said.

On Thursday, he still didn't have the footage back and said he would go to court Friday to demand RCMP return his video.

Police say they held onto video longer than anticipated to protect the integrity of the investigation.

"The integrated homicide team will be releasing the video back to Mr. Pritchard very, very shortly," RCMP spokesperson Dale Carr told reporters after Pritchard's conference.

Carr said the video will be released in a week to 10 days.

"There has been no change. We never said we were going to keep this longer than we needed to keep it," he said.

Pritchard intends on keeping his court date until the tape is back in his hands, saying he wants to release it to the media.

"There's so much speculation of what happened and I have the footage and it's all there," he said. "It's minutes and minutes and minutes of the chain of events and how it happened and there doesn't need to be all these questions because the answers are on the tape."

He said the video shows Dziekanski being hit in the right forearm with the Taser before he appeared to try and pull the Taser from his arm before he fell to the floor, where he lay convulsing.

Pritchard said one Mountie yelled 'Code Red' before paramedics arrived and began lifesaving efforts on Dziekanski.

Pritchard's lawyer Paul Pearson filed a lawsuit in British Columbia Supreme Court on Oct. 25.

Dziekanski was highly agitated after spending about 10 hours in the airport leading up to the confrontation. An autopsy has not confirmed the cause of death.

With a report from CTV British Columbia's Lisa Rossington