Chiefs call for independent investigation into video showing First Nations woman being knocked out at RCMP detachment
Security footage made public this week of a peace officer knocking a First Nations woman…
Violence
Hearing to certify MMIWG class action against Canada starts Monday
The suit asks for $600 million due to inaction from feds to deal with violence against Indigenous women.
Red Women House: First recovery centre for Indigenous women opens in Calgary
‘From having nothing, sleeping beside my daughter on a single bed in a basement. It brings me hope.’
Family of lead plaintiff in RCMP discrimination class action hope police reform movement spurs change
A drum and dance troupe from Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., takes the stage across the river from…
Winnipeg police defend use of force, deem kick necessary in video of Indigenous man’s arrest
Indigenous man tasered twice and kicked in upper body
RCMP boss reverses comments, acknowledges systemic racism in police force
‘I did not say definitively that systemic racism exists in the RCMP. I should have.’
Video shows RCMP arrest of Athabasca Chipewyan chief
12 minute video shows argument and eventual arrest of Adam.
‘This has to stop’: Bloodied chief in Alberta calls out RCMP
“The RCMP, whenever they go do their call there, they always seem to use excessive force.”
The idea of ‘defunding’ police nothing new for Vancouver advocate
“we could see this shift from what we have right now, which is police attending crisis calls”