RCMP Watch

Michael Tutton, Halifax, NS (Canadian Press) - A Halifax police officer faces a charge of causing a disturbance following allegations he started a fight with two young black men, but RCMP insisted Friday the fracas wasn’t sparked by a racial slur.
RCMP investigators said they could find no evidence that a racist taunt was made by [...]

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Sarah Sacheli (Windsor Star) - A Windsor police constable pleaded guilty in Ontario court Wednesday to theft for stealing $425 from an undercover RCMP officer during a sting operation.
Traffic cop Michael Stephen Shannon, 40, was arrested Oct. 4, 2007, after taking the bait during an orchestrated vehicle stop.
Court was told Shannon was on his motorcycle [...]

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Oliver Moore, Halifax, NS (Globe and Mail) - Two young black men who say they were racially taunted by off-duty police and then abused by uniformed officers filed a formal complaint yesterday against Halifax Regional Police.
Nathaniel Fells and William Drummond were joined at police headquarters by dozens of protesters, a handful of whom stayed while [...]

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Regina, SK (Canadian Press) - Regular municipal police in Saskatchewan will not be issued tasers because of safety concerns over the conducted energy weapons, the province’s police commission announced Friday.
“After questions about the safety of the equipment arose, accompanied by the public inquiry in British Columbia … the commission believed it was not prudent to [...]

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Winnipeg, MB (Canadian Press) - A 17-year-old youth who died after being hit by a Taser was a suspect in a theft, police said Wednesday.
An officer deployed an “electronic control device” when the teenager refused to comply with repeated directions to put down a knife, said Const. Jacqueline Chaput.
“That poses a threat to the officers, [...]

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(CTV.ca News Staff) -  A man died Tuesday after police used a Taser to subdue him, in what is believed to be the first such case in Winnipeg.
Witnesses told CTV Winnipeg the unidentified man, reportedly in his 20s, had been wielding a knife. But police spokesperson Const. Jacqueline Chaput would not confirm that report.
She said [...]

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Yarmouth, N.S. (Canadian Press) - Angie Lawrence is 67 and has never attended a protest, but after hearing allegations that off-duty police officers insulted and provoked a fight with two black youths, she’s gathering a carload of black church women to attend an anti-racism demonstration on Monday in Digby, N.S.
The soft spoken former nursing home [...]

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Brian Medel (Chronical Herald) - Halifax Regional Police have started an investigation into the conduct of some of their officers who were in Digby last month when a young black man got into an altercation with several off-duty cops.
Allegations of racist behaviour have surfaced involving off-duty policemen from Halifax and other parts of the province [...]

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Chad Skelton (Vancouver Sun) - A fired biker-gang investigator warned during settlement talks last year that if his wrongful dismissal case ever got to trial it would expose the dysfunctional relationship between the RCMP and B.C.’s municipal police.
“We expect to have several senior police officers willing to testify about the inability or unwillingness of RCMP [...]

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Chad Skelton and Allison Cross (Vancouver Sun) - Animosity between the RCMP and the Organized Crime Agency of B.C. resulted in the failure of a multi-million-dollar investigation into the Hells Angels, a former lead investigator with the OCABC has alleged in a wrongful dismissal suit.
The investigation, known as Project Phoenix, targeted several high-profile members of [...]

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