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9 1 1. For what city? Police, sir. I\'m freezing police.

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My car was stuck. They just kicked me up and just dropped me off somewhere.

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Who dropped you off? The police dropped me off here,

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just dropped me off here. Like really? This is what you guys call Canada.

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Just cause I sound black doesn\'t mean I\'m bad. No one,

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no one said you\'re bad because you\'re black. Okay. No one,

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no one ever said that? No, that\'s what it is. Well that\'s not the situation.

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Okay. There\'s no, there\'s no racial undertones here.

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I\'m not a bad guy. I don\'t have anything to do with the cops.

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They must picked me up and dropped me off somewhere. Cold. Please stop.

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They just left me here. Like, stop shouting. Okay. I\'m not shouting.

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I\'m just freezing. I\'m cold. I know, I know. So i\'s gonna please I,

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We live in a world where in too many places, police services,

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police forces have lost the trust of the communities that they serve.

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We\'ve seen that in other places in Canada.

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We\'ve seen it in other places in the western world.

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It\'s not something we want to see here. Nor is it something we will see here.

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The Calgary police service is quite possibly one of the best,

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if not the best police services in this country,

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which makes it one of the very best in the world.

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Taking that oath of allegiance,

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becoming a police officer provides you with an enormous amount of authority.

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Probably the most intimate form of government the public will ever deal with is

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the police.

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The fact that they could suspend your charter of rights and freedoms.

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They could use force against you.

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They can do things to you that could forever upend your life,

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your family\'s life. Come with a high specific need to be accountable.

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The fact is that right now our frontline is responding far too

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frequently to situations which forces them to make life and death decisions.

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The training we receive is some of the best in Canada.

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And when faced with these critical decisions,

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our officers will fall back upon that training.

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They react exactly as all police training dictates when lives are

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in danger.

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This year alone,

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at least nine former and current officers are facing criminal charges among

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them. Assault with a weapon, bribery of an officer, breach of trust,

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improperly storing a weapon. And these are only the ones we know about.

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People are put that in.

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You\'re making your own problems work.

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You have a culture of people who are used to being authoritarian.

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They\'re used to being right at all times.

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They\'re used to sort of living the traditional values. I\'m the boss, you\'re,

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you\'re not. Therefore it\'s okay for me to yell at you and treat you like that.

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That is inherent in our decades of culture.

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Those kind of norms and roles and behaviors.

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Once I started reporting on certain issues within the Calgary Police service,

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then it\'s almost like sort of the floodgates open and people come to you with

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information that they have thinking that you might have the connections or the

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expertise to start looking in, investigating, tackling some of the issues.

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Police announced that three of their own are being charged in an

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excessive force case against a man named Clayton Prince,

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who they had tried to conduct a traffic stop on. He had run away from them.

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Hey,

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I mean I had been involved in calls where if the offender ran and

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it would be like a thing where you would make a group decision

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if that guy runs you give him some extra punches so that he is not gonna screw

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with the cops again.

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Three Calgary police officers are facing a range of criminal charges after a

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violent arrest this summer,

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it left a 34 year old Calgary man with broken bones and a collapsed lung.

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And it was all caught on video.

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Native male, black sweatshirt, blue jeans.

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The incident had only come to light, had only been investigated.

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Once this dash cam footage surfaced,

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you can see Clayton Prince run sort of across a front lawn and get

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down on his stomach with his hands behind his head.

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We watch as often lands on the back of Clayton Prince and begins to punch him in

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the head. And then the video just cuts out.

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That had to have been done manually.

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He had broken some ribs, he had had a collapsed lung.

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He had had a key shoved into his neck.

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Alright, now what you saw here,

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That\'s Yeah, I know

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Guys side justice. Yeah, yeah.

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That guy is way bad. Was videotaping us

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very well. Yeah, because what he\'s surrendering,

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he\'s getting down on the ground and you get a whole bunch of shots.

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That\'s something where as a recruit,

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you think they\'re gonna call their officer coach out and say, Hey,

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that\'s excessive force. No,

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they\'re gonna follow what they do and then carry that on throughout their

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career.

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We, uh, got back.

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What\'s that?

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The officers are charged with assault,

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but it\'s the public mischief charge that is most disturbing to Alberta\'s police

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watchdog.

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The fact that they lied to suggest that a person committed an offense that they

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did not commit and potentially subject that person to the criminal justice

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process and potentially imprisonment is extremely serious.

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So the three officers charged in the end, the judge said in her decision,

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she didn\'t necessarily believe their testimony,

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but she was left in reasonable doubt. And so two of them were acquitted. Um,

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James Ham was found guilty. He\'s appealing his convictions.

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The issues were discussed in court. So I mean,

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they bear their own responsibilities for the behaviors.

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But I look at it from the chief and say,

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how many times did a supervisor see that behavior?

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How many times did a manager or a peer see that kind of evolving behavior and

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said nothing or did nothing or maybe laughed at it or walked away?

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I worked around a lot of people that would use excessive force.

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And I\'m ashamed to say I never stood up and said anything,

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but I was nothing short of afraid. I was afraid that, I mean,

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number one, I already was a female, so I had that going against me.

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But now a female who speaks out,

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I had also seen what happens to people who speak out against those who are heavy

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handed, who use too much force.

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And so I didn\'t say anything when I saw incidents like that happen.

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It\'s common and I think it still is common because who are you gonna believe

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someone in uniform who\'s trusted and instilled with this level of

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respect and trust to serve your the public?

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Or are you gonna trust a low life criminal that they\'re saying, oh yeah,

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I was beat up

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Man, it was nice. Life was great when I came here.

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Like there\'s so many opportunities. You know, there\'s jobs.

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Life was good before the whole incident. I knew where I was going.

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I knew what I was doing with my life. But then

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after the incident, everything just kind of went downhill.

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This police van pulled behind the car. They came out,

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told us to push the car. So I told him, Hey look, we tried to push the car.

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If you can\'t help us in any way, just leave us alone. To my surprise,

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they wrestl me to the ground. They put handcuffs for me,

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put me in the back of the police van. I was just like, what are you guys doing?

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Like I haven\'t done anything wrong. So where are you guys taking me?

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They just kept on driving. They got to East Village, they stopped there.

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They took my handcuffs off and they told me to beat it.

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So they just got in the van and just drove off.

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So I\'m stuck at this location. I don\'t know where I\'m at. I\'m from Africa,

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where I\'m from. You don\'t see none of this minus 25, minus 30.

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We don\'t see none of that. I was just wearing like a tracksuit.

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I didn\'t have gloves or no took or anything. There\'s no buildings.

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I can go still warm. I\'m scared. Like I was panicking. I was feared for my life.

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And also construction everywhere, like cranes up here.

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I couldn\'t call the taxi at that time \'cause my phone was dead.

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But I had a friend\'s phone that he had dropped when I went to go pick them up.

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My only option was to call 9 1 1.

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Have your police, what\'s the address of your emergency? Okay.

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Have you cops picked me up for no reason, just left me here. Left you where?

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I don\'t know. I don\'t know. They just left me here.

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They told me it\'s only for emergency service.

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So they hang up on me and I called again.

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They kept me on the phone for like 10 minutes

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and the cop arrived like right here

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Before you text him out with this mail.

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Looks like he\'s yelling at one of our call takers so we can disconnect with him.

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He walked all across to where I was,

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told me to stop f*****g calling 9 1 1, asking for help and stuff,

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making complaints.

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They took my id. Everything is,

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He just came on me like in an aggressive way, you know, he pushed me.

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I got up trying to run away from him. He tased me so quick.

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He put handcuffs on me and I just remember this guy just beating me up,

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punching me in the face, knees to the back.

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This is where he almost entered my life. Right here.

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It is not over there and it\'s not over there.

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It\'s like right here on this spot right here.

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Uh, I\'m here to provide a brief statement and answer whatever questions I can.

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At approximately 3:00 PM today,

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officers responded to a call from staff at a hotel for reports of a man

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behaving strangely. They took action to enter his room.

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The situation escalated and as a result of his actions,

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a service firearm was discharged following standard

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procedures in an officer involved shooting.

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The investigation is now being conducted by the Alberta Serious Incident

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Response Team, also known as a cert.

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The crux of our investigation is gonna focus on what happened and why they

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needed to gain entry. And what occurred in that hotel room,

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Something I\'ll never forget is a door being knocked on with

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just immense pressure,

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almost shook and shaking the house and then opened the door and to find these

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two officers.

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I heard my phone ring, I saw it was Grant.

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And so I called him back and uh, he answered the phone and he was just,

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uh, yelling his mom there. His mom there.

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And it was three 30 in the morning or so.

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And I ran to the door and it\'s Natalie and she can hardly

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Yeah,

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She can hardly breathe.

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Yeah.

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And she was yelling out that they\'ve Anthony\'s dead,

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that they\'ve killed Anthony

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Bell\'s toll for Anthony Heffernan.

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The 27 year old was remembered at his funeral Wednesday in Prince Albert.

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He was shot and killed by Calgary Police last week.

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He was taken down with three shots to the head and one to the chest.

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And we wanna know why.

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Once we had the funeral and went back into Saskatchewan, we uh,

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phoned eight cert numerous times and the lead investigator talked to us

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at length. Do you know,

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what did Anthony do to make him such a threat to the police?

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Five police officer that they had to kill him?

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What we\'ve been told is that he, uh, presented himself with a, uh,

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syringe and he motioned towards the officers. That\'s my understanding of

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Five officers. And they would kill a person \'cause he had a needle in lighter.

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I don\'t make an opinion whether or not the uh, members, uh, acted appropriately.

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Our role is to compile the facts.

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Do you know if any other police officers had their guns drawn?

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Um, some do. Yes.

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Oh, you\'re kidding. Oh

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Yeah. Wow.

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They\'re going in for a wellness check with guns drawn. Oh,

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Uh, not all of \'em have guns drawn. Some do. And the,

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Were they, were they surrounding him or what were they doing?

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Well, and again, uh, pat, that will be what are they trained to do?

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God, I really hope this doesn\'t happen to someone else. Now this is handled.

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Holy Lord.

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The Heffernan family brought their concerns to me and I agreed to represent

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them. Anthony Heffernan winds up in a hotel room.

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He\'s using drugs and he overstayed his rental.

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Wasn\'t answering phone, wasn\'t answering the knocking of the door.

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So the hotel management obviously being concerned about his welfare phone.

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The Calgary Police Service. Bad move,

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bad, bad move.

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Wanna make sure that, uh, people are safe. There\'s nothing bad in there.

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And obviously they, they need to check out as well. So, oh, okay.

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They\'ll be to check out at 11 o\'clock. 11.

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So they\'re two and a half hours overdoing or, okay. Mm-Hmm.

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They force entry to the room there. Lots of yelling.

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They get close to \'em. Two tasers were used.

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3 0 3 0 Farlow Trail. Northeast.

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Why do I think I put a call up here? This is the hotel. Yep. From 4 1 4.

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He\'s got a male, uh, with a gunshot wound.

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The sergeant and three other officers obviously did not see the need to use

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lethal force. Some constable,

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who we know to be McLaughlin decided on his own to kill him.

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Once we found out what Acer is and like it\'s cops kind of investigating cops and

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we\'re like, who has her back kind of thing.

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Tom Engel with a criminal trial Lawyers Association is demanding more civilian

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oversight. He says police investigating police is not good enough.

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They seem to be very sympathetic to the police officers and seem

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to accept their stories without critical analysis or investigation.

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I am stunned to hear that comment.

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Susan Uson was emotional and defensive. Thursday the ACE cert director says,

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criticism, the serious incident response team is biased toward police is unfair.

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We

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Are concerned that everybody gets fair treatment in this pro province.

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No one is above the law.

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The more details we got,

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the angrier we kind of became for these five officers to

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say that they feared for their lies is complete b******t.

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There\'s no way five of them couldn\'t,

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couldn\'t town on anything that day with no weapon.

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They put me in a police van,

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read me my rights and said I was being charged for assaulting a police officer.

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Um, at that time I didn\'t really have much to say to them.

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Like I was just so weak and like, so broken down, you know,

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like just in so much pain.

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They finally took me out. I got on the train, I\'m all bruised up, you know,

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ba lifts busted up, I\'m bleeding and people are just looking at me like,

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what happened to you? You know,

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I called my friend as soon as he walked in. He\'s like, holy s**t.

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What happened to you man?

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We went to the hospital and when we got there, I was in so much pain.

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I could barely stand.

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I stayed at my friend\'s house for like almost a week \'cause I was scared to come

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home because they knew where I lived.

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I was having like flashbacks and you know,

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the images just keeps repeating itself in my head, you know? So

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I was just terrified, man. I didn\'t want to go home, you know?

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I didn\'t want to be alone. I guess

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I was like, man, I gotta do something about this. You know,

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I can\'t just let them get away with this.

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I filed a complaint \'cause I felt like I had to do something about it before it

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happens to someone. Again,

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Growing

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Up on acreage was, was so much fun.

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There\'s always something to do outside. Um,

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we had a big family and I\'ve always loved that about our family.

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It was just chaos. Always. Anthony is,

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it\'s just three years younger than me and our,

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our birthdays are just a week apart.

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We shared our birthdays every year together and he ended up being

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my best friend up until his death four years ago. Now

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Anthony was always laughing,

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extremely caring and very generous.

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He was an electrician. It was a really great career for him.

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But I think also having a lot of access to so much money at such a young age,

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um, you know, he kind of fell into, uh, spending it on in the best ways off.

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And so

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With Anthony and, and drugs, unfortunately,

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specifically cocaine, he, uh, he had a problem with it.

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He hated his addiction. And to be honest, he lived a,

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a very sober life for the couple years before uh, he died. He relapsed,

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you know, going into the hotel room,

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the reaction from people, you know, um, well he was an addict and you know,

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he kind of deserved it or you know, he\'s the one who put himself there.

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If he wasn\'t there, it wouldn\'t have happened. You know,

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we didn\'t want the,

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the story for Anthony that there was an addict who was killed.

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I mean,

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he was our brother and he died in a way that he shouldn\'t have

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died. And if we were going to take anything to try to make the world better,

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we had to have a voice for him. Truth

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And justice for Anthony. Truth and Justice for Anthony.

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Truth and Justice for Anthony. Truth and Justice for Anthony.

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Yeah, ten four.

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It was very scary for a while. They know our faces, they know our names,

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they know where we live. That was definitely really hard. And yeah,

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there was a lot of police at the march.

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I wish I could say that they had a lot of empathetic faces, but it, you know,

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it wasn\'t like that. And yeah, they were filming

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10 past 12, approximately 80 people.

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We do not have a just society. If police can come to a wellness check,

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kick in a door,

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taser and shoot an unarmed man four times,

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once in the chest and three times in the head.

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Anthony was not a threat to anyone.

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This must never happen again in Calgary or Canada.

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We thought that by us being vocal,

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we would possibly stop an officer from pulling the trigger. Again,

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justice for Anthony,

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if anything could come get out of this with Anthony\'s death.

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And this huge hole in her hearts, uh,

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is that another family won\'t have to experience what we\'re going through.

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And, uh, it didn\'t,

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At first I thought they were gonna drop the charge \'cause I didn\'t do nothing

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and they don\'t have no evidence against me. But then after like a year or so,

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I spoke to my lawyer, she\'s like, yeah, this is gonna go to trial,

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so get ready.

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The only basis by which God was charged with assault was that there was some

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sort of gesture.

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There was never any allegation that he\'d actually hit anybody or pushed anybody

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or had any physical contact. Of course,

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I\'ve heard before stories from people who have been charged with assaulting a

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police officer and have said that they in fact were the ones assaulted.

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So it wasn\'t anything new to me,

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but his demeanor really drew my attention. He kept saying,

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it\'s a construction site. There\'s got to have been some video there.

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There\'s got somebody had to have a camera there,

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you\'ve got to get the cameras and show what happened to me.

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And so that was really remarkable for me.

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Why would he be encouraging me to try and get evidence of what he was telling me

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if he were making something up?

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So we\'re back in courtroom 10 0 8.

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This is the very courtroom where God was prosecuted.

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The day of the trial, I felt scared for God.

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Three uniform police officers standing up under oath and telling their version

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of events and God standing on his own.

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I didn\'t feel confident and I felt scared for him.

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The trial commenced with Constable Ocli.

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He conceded that he had thrown God to the ground.

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That event ended with Ocli putting godfried into a police vehicle

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and then for no logical reason,

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drove away from that scene and just left him off on a street corner wearing a

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little sweat jacket and a pair of sweatpants.

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This was minus 28 in frigid Calgary weather.

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And he just left them there with no regard at all for his safety

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Out members. Just holding a guy on the ground.

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Looking at the video, I see God Fred handcuffed,

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the police officers dragging him along and he kind of falls or maybe he is, uh,

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trying to stand up,

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but ultimately he falls to his back and then we see the police officer punching

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him in the head.

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It looks like he\'s kneeling on one knee and striking him with his other knee

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repeatedly around the head and chest and upper body area.

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And there is no possibility that GFR is in any way resisting or

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attacking his on the ground, on his back with his hands cuffed,

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pulled up above his head. And there is no escape.

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There is no escape for that kid.

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Okay, on three members out now. So anyone else come and can uh, slow down.

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The final officer that was involved was Constable Curtis.

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And he ultimately took God into custody.

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I asked him what it was that made him believe that God was

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intoxicated. And he said two things.

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One is that the other officers had told him that God was intoxicated and that

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God repeated the phrase, I don\'t deserve this.

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And that was what led him to believe that God was intoxicated.

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And that leads to a bigger concern about this entire case.

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We didn\'t have three evil officers who were conspiring one with the other to get

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this man in trouble. We had three independent actors,

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one of whom kidnapped godfried and took him and left him to freeze to death.

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Another one who found him there. Um,

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having called for help and beat him up such that he still

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hasn\'t physically recovered years later.

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And a third who just blindly accepted this must be a drunk man because the

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others said so that in my view is a critical

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difficulty with the police service is that that could possibly happen. It\'s,

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it\'s very frightening.

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Judge Mle Hardy found that the police officers were not credible and was not

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able to find in any way that God assaulted the police officer.

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And God was acquitted.

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Five, sorry, 1 5 8 we\'re out.

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Like with all this evidence, with all these videos and everything,

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they still went over the trial and they actually tried to lock me up

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for doing nothing.

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Sure. But you need DMS negative.

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But the back I will,

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It makes me feel like he\'s like profiling me. You know, like,

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you just did this to me. Who is the bad guy?

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The guy who puts an innocent guy in handcuffs taser him,

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beat him up for no reason.

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Or the guy that needed help and got tortured,

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who\'s the bad guy?

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All unit L channels.

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The code 201 district involving unit 1146 has been resolved.

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Had we not had a video recording,

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we would\'ve had God standing up in court and saying the police officers are

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lying. And I can\'t imagine any judge going out on a limb and saying,

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you\'re right. The three of them are lying. It\'s you that\'s telling the truth.

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That would\'ve been a very hard sell for God, Fred.

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Yes, he was a beautiful baby. Yeah. The thing is, you know,

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he brought a lot of joy Yeah, sure did to our lives and um, a ton of laughter.

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Yeah.

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This is under the trampoline one day.

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Yeah.

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They had

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Spent a lot of time on the trampoline in the summer \'cause it was cooler spot

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where they talk and visit and have picnics.

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Sometimes ly is a very important part of the life.

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And then this is Joe and Sue\'s wedding.

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Hmm. So just that\'s six weeks before he was killed. Yeah.

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Yeah. So that\'s our last total family picture.

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Had family pictures since, but there\'s always something missed with a parent.

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It\'s a terrible thing to lose a child. Yeah. And in our case it\'s a little bit,

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uh, more difficult just for their, how he died.

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It\'s Senselessness.

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Just before 5:00 PM police tactical teams descended onto this residential

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neighborhood, an active shooter in one of the homes,

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heavily armed officers on the,

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the ground moved in to take on the shooter police shot and killed the suspect.

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I had started to get information that the same officer who was involved in

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Anthony Heffernan\'s death had also wound up at another

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officer involved shooting and not just been involved,

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but had drawn his weapon and had fired his gun.

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David McQueen was in a wheelchair and had recently lost his in-home care because

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it could no longer afford it.

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He struggled for compensation from the government and became increasingly angry

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and desperate. It all came to a head in an arm standoff.

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He was shot and killed by police after he reportedly fired several shots into

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the street hitting a city bus.

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Um, I don\'t think he wanted to die. Um,

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I think he just wanted to be hurt

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more and this was the only way he knew to get people\'s attention.

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I called Grant Heffer in and I remember saying,

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I think I\'m gonna tell you some information you don\'t know,

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and I think it\'s gonna be upsetting to you. Are you okay to hear this from me?

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She told me that, um,

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the same officer that killed Anthony was back to work and was also involved in

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another shooting that killed McQueen. Um,

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and that, that was the craziest, I just couldn\'t believe it.

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You know what I mean? Like, is that just the mentality of the Calgary police?

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Like they don\'t care at all, like put him back to work? He\'s fine.

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That, that Mr. Anthony airframe deserved it.

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I think there was an understanding that this officer is under investigation.

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He\'s not gonna be suspended. O pay, he\'s not even gonna be suspended,

447
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but maybe he shouldn\'t have been on the street.

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Maybe he should have been given administrative duties until he was cleared

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from the Heffernan shooting

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God\'s therapy, his legal fees. There is no compensation.

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He\'s intended to just feel fortunate that he\'s been found not guilty and move

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on.

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I went through like five, six lawyers in Calgary.

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Nobody was willing to take on the case.

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My defense lawyer, she referred me to a lawyer in Edmonton. Tom Engel.

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He, it was a travesty that he was ever arrested, ever charged.

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Once the charge is laid,

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it goes to the Calgary crown and they have to thoroughly review all of the

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evidence.

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Now they have to decide whether they have a reasonable likelihood of conviction

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and if they do,

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whether it\'s in the public interest to prosecute Godfried looking at this

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whole scenario, is it in the public interest to prosecute this man?

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The answer to me would be clearly no. There\'s a failure there.

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These checks and balances. None of them worked.

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A prosecutor\'s job is to seek justice always. And that\'s their only job.

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So to look at a video recording like that and feel that justice is best served

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by this young man who was clearly beaten severely by the police

469
00:39:24.955 --> 00:39:28.015
to see that justice would be served by having that person prosecuted for having

470
00:39:30.455 --> 00:39:34.655
gestured at the very most to a police officer in an assaultive way.

471
00:39:36.635 --> 00:39:38.135
That\'s not the job in my view.

472
00:39:40.645 --> 00:39:45.375
Prosecutors have a responsibility to make sure that those officers who are not

473
00:39:45.375 --> 00:39:48.695
acting within the bounds of the law are taken to task.

474
00:39:49.435 --> 00:39:50.815
And essentially when a judge says,

475
00:39:50.855 --> 00:39:52.655
I don\'t think the police officers were telling the truth,

476
00:39:53.435 --> 00:39:57.135
it just shouldn\'t sit there, it shouldn\'t just sit there without any follow up.

477
00:39:57.595 --> 00:40:00.175
But I have no reason to think that\'s not exactly what happened.

478
00:40:02.705 --> 00:40:07.655
Crown prosecutors generally don\'t like to report police officers misconduct.

479
00:40:09.215 --> 00:40:13.535
I got confirmation that the Crown prosecutor in God\'s case did not report it.

480
00:40:14.355 --> 00:40:19.215
But I have tried for years to get the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service and the,

481
00:40:19.475 --> 00:40:24.375
and the Federal Prosecution Service to adopt a policy that will

482
00:40:24.375 --> 00:40:28.935
require their prosecutors to report this conduct.

483
00:40:29.035 --> 00:40:30.095
And they have resisted.

484
00:40:32.875 --> 00:40:37.815
So it\'s very strange to me that the Crown prosecution service would not

485
00:40:38.275 --> 00:40:42.095
be rushing to implement such a policy. I mean, after all,

486
00:40:42.475 --> 00:40:46.055
aren\'t they interested in a justice system where they\'re,

487
00:40:46.185 --> 00:40:49.175
where the police officers are the best that they could be?

488
00:40:54.395 --> 00:40:55.675
I was sleeping with my girlfriend,

489
00:40:56.095 --> 00:41:00.035
but I couldn\'t work due to my back injuries and stuff.

490
00:41:01.135 --> 00:41:05.995
And bills is piling up and piling up and piling up and she\'s paying the bills

491
00:41:05.995 --> 00:41:10.675
and I\'m just sitting at home after me and my girl broke up.

492
00:41:11.115 --> 00:41:14.355
I was homeless. I had to put my stuff in the storage,

493
00:41:16.215 --> 00:41:18.715
six months, sleeping in my friend\'s couch in the basement.

494
00:41:19.475 --> 00:41:22.195
I went through all that back pain and the stress,

495
00:41:22.455 --> 00:41:25.075
the stress makes the pain even worse. You know,

496
00:41:27.185 --> 00:41:31.795
When I first met Godfried, he hadn\'t a permanent home and was very lonely,

497
00:41:31.985 --> 00:41:36.285
very disenfranchised. It was evidence that he had severe PTSD.

498
00:41:36.545 --> 00:41:41.045
He was highly symptomatic and just not able to mobilize at all.

499
00:41:41.665 --> 00:41:44.965
And he was also in a lot of physical pain. His back was very sore.

500
00:41:45.105 --> 00:41:48.605
He was still recovering from his injuries. He was in a bad place.

501
00:41:49.185 --> 00:41:53.685
His trauma was um, profound. He was having nightmares,

502
00:41:53.685 --> 00:41:56.445
he was having flashbacks, he was really afraid of the police.

503
00:41:58.305 --> 00:42:02.845
As time goes on, it tends to get better, but his trauma\'s very severe.

504
00:42:05.955 --> 00:42:09.125
Them kidnapping me and dropping me off somewhere in the cold.

505
00:42:09.675 --> 00:42:11.405
It\'s not the first time they\'ve done that.

506
00:42:11.515 --> 00:42:15.085
Like they\'ve done it so many times to the Aboriginal people.

507
00:42:16.935 --> 00:42:19.825
They have a name for that. It\'s called the Starlight Tour.

508
00:42:21.655 --> 00:42:23.025
This has been going on for years.

509
00:42:26.495 --> 00:42:29.745
History is fraught with those situations where some very bad things have

510
00:42:29.905 --> 00:42:33.145
happened to people because of police have thrown \'em out of vehicles or left

511
00:42:33.145 --> 00:42:37.865
them a freeze at night or uh, you know, left them abandoned on, you know,

512
00:42:37.865 --> 00:42:40.825
deserted roads or something. I mean, that\'s not our role. It\'s not our job.

513
00:42:41.175 --> 00:42:45.625
It\'s highly offensive to our oath of allegiance is highly offensive to our role.

514
00:42:46.285 --> 00:42:49.145
Uh, it is the antithesis of professional policing.

515
00:42:51.945 --> 00:42:56.505
I think any Calgarian would be very disturbed about this kind of misconduct

516
00:42:57.045 --> 00:43:00.425
and the fact that these officers are still working, as far as I know,

517
00:43:00.425 --> 00:43:05.015
they\'re still out in the field. Let\'s remember that God Ford is black.

518
00:43:06.955 --> 00:43:08.455
No, let\'s not lose sight of that.

519
00:43:10.095 --> 00:43:11.895
I think that there\'s a racial issue here.

520
00:43:12.095 --> 00:43:13.855
I think that there\'s a bully factor here,

521
00:43:14.275 --> 00:43:18.095
but I can guarantee you if my son was in that BMWX five,

522
00:43:18.555 --> 00:43:22.975
it would\'ve been a completely different outcome and that really bugs me.

523
00:43:23.755 --> 00:43:27.095
Or for white girls, they would\'ve been taking them out for coffee

524
00:43:51.925 --> 00:43:56.865
At the Acer meeting. We recorded the proceedings that took place and uh,

525
00:43:57.125 --> 00:43:59.065
almost immediately after we get in,

526
00:43:59.065 --> 00:44:03.185
Susan Houston tells us she\'s made the decision that she is going to

527
00:44:03.815 --> 00:44:07.505
send the file to the prosecution. And that\'s when we were informed.

528
00:44:07.505 --> 00:44:11.385
There was actually six times that he, that the headshot and that,

529
00:44:12.135 --> 00:44:16.025
that they didn\'t see the justification for him for shooting. Anthony,

530
00:44:16.775 --> 00:44:21.425
What I will say to the Crown is I believe there are reasonable grounds to

531
00:44:21.425 --> 00:44:22.905
believe an offense has been committed.

532
00:44:23.325 --> 00:44:26.745
And I think you need to look at second degree murder manslaughter and criminal

533
00:44:26.745 --> 00:44:31.525
negligence. And I\'ve said to her that before she makes any decisions,

534
00:44:31.525 --> 00:44:32.885
there\'s certain things she should do.

535
00:44:32.995 --> 00:44:36.645
Like she has to go to that hotel room and what\'s her name? Carrie Ann Downey.

536
00:44:36.755 --> 00:44:40.325
Okay. She\'s got the courage of her conviction so she can make that call.

537
00:44:40.545 --> 00:44:44.085
That\'s great. Um, which is what I want. I want a prosecutor.

538
00:44:44.245 --> 00:44:48.165
\'cause we get a lot of no likelihood of conviction. I want somebody who\'s, who\'s

539
00:44:49.705 --> 00:44:53.685
not gonna go, no judge is convict so I\'m not gonna do this. Mm-Hmm.

540
00:44:56.875 --> 00:45:00.305
After our meeting with Susan Houston, we were very hopeful. Mm-Hmm.

541
00:45:00.805 --> 00:45:04.145
We very hopeful even though, even though she said that again, we\'d have to go,

542
00:45:04.405 --> 00:45:08.025
you know, to the prosecution. But we were naturally very hopeful.

543
00:45:37.055 --> 00:45:38.975
I had like to thank everybody for coming today.

544
00:45:39.685 --> 00:45:44.175
This has been an incredibly difficult case and it\'s been one of the most

545
00:45:44.175 --> 00:45:47.815
difficult cases that AER has had to deal with while I\'ve been executive

546
00:45:48.135 --> 00:45:51.255
director. Uh, I noticed the Heffernan\'s are here.

547
00:45:51.645 --> 00:45:56.295
Anthony Heffernan was 27 years old at the time that he was shot and killed.

548
00:45:57.435 --> 00:46:01.975
The conclusion was that based on my review of all of the evidence, uh,

549
00:46:01.975 --> 00:46:06.415
that there was evidence capable of constituting reasonable grounds

550
00:46:07.195 --> 00:46:11.495
to believe an offense or offenses had been committed under the criminal code

551
00:46:12.755 --> 00:46:15.255
as is required under the police act,

552
00:46:15.595 --> 00:46:18.535
ACE Cert must forward their, uh,

553
00:46:19.015 --> 00:46:23.175
investigation to the crown in those circumstances. And we did so out

554
00:46:26.535 --> 00:46:28.935
A cert had recommended charges to the Crown\'s office.

555
00:46:29.315 --> 00:46:33.855
And so I think people were expecting that this might be one of those rare cases

556
00:46:34.105 --> 00:46:36.775
where charges were gonna be laid against. The officer

557
00:46:37.995 --> 00:46:42.175
Carrie Ann Downey was the prosecutor to look at the file and we don\'t know if

558
00:46:42.175 --> 00:46:45.535
she was, uh, if she was taken off it or what took place,

559
00:46:45.595 --> 00:46:50.455
but all of a sudden the Deputy Minister of Justice was there and he

560
00:46:50.455 --> 00:46:54.415
is the head prosecutor of all the prosecutors in Alberta.

561
00:46:55.075 --> 00:46:56.535
And we don\'t know why he was there.

562
00:46:57.515 --> 00:46:59.935
Our understanding is that has never taken place before.

563
00:47:00.925 --> 00:47:03.215
Following a thorough review of the evidence,

564
00:47:03.935 --> 00:47:06.495
a close analysis of the relevant law,

565
00:47:07.355 --> 00:47:11.295
the application of the standard for commencing prosecutions.

566
00:47:11.805 --> 00:47:15.415
It\'s our determination that there will not be a prosecution in this case.

567
00:47:16.335 --> 00:47:17.105
Ultimately,

568
00:47:17.105 --> 00:47:21.935
there was simply not sufficient evidence that the officer\'s use of force was

569
00:47:22.045 --> 00:47:24.935
unjustified. And as such, in these circumstances,

570
00:47:24.935 --> 00:47:28.575
there\'s not a reasonable likelihood of conviction resulting from the use of

571
00:47:28.575 --> 00:47:31.045
force. And there will not be a prosecution.

572
00:47:32.925 --> 00:47:36.925
I wanna say to the Heman family, how, sorry I\'m for your loss.

573
00:47:37.945 --> 00:47:42.805
So panel went on to say that the officer had no other choices

574
00:47:43.185 --> 00:47:45.685
In the circumstances that the officer found himself in.

575
00:47:45.895 --> 00:47:49.085
There were no reasonable alternatives to taking the steps that he

576
00:47:49.085 --> 00:47:53.605
Did. And that\'s naturally is completely wrong. He had lots of choices.

577
00:47:54.665 --> 00:47:55.645
It does not make sense.

578
00:47:55.705 --> 00:47:59.885
And you wonder how would a prosecutor ever come out with a statement like that?

579
00:48:02.995 --> 00:48:04.485
Well, completely devastated.

580
00:48:04.585 --> 00:48:09.405
We really actually thought in the last 17 months that clear and

581
00:48:09.545 --> 00:48:13.215
um, just thinking would prevail,

582
00:48:15.515 --> 00:48:16.348
but it didn\'t.

583
00:48:19.235 --> 00:48:23.175
And so we were very disheartened to say the least, very,

584
00:48:24.245 --> 00:48:26.855
just very saddened by the whole ordeal.

585
00:48:27.735 --> 00:48:32.735
I often wonder how they all sleep at night. Maybe just fine.

586
00:48:33.755 --> 00:48:38.255
We don\'t, you know, I often wonder, does McLaughlin have a full night\'s sleep?

587
00:48:38.965 --> 00:48:43.615
Does Eric, maybe they do.

588
00:48:44.435 --> 00:48:45.165
Um,

589
00:48:45.165 --> 00:48:46.575
Yeah, just another day in the

590
00:48:46.575 --> 00:48:46.895
Another

591
00:48:46.895 --> 00:48:50.335
Day. Life of the Calgary police. Yeah, another one dead and yeah,

592
00:48:50.405 --> 00:48:53.055
another one buried. And let\'s forget about it.

593
00:49:00.875 --> 00:49:05.855
An officer who has been on the force for about a year fired her gun killing a 27

594
00:49:05.855 --> 00:49:10.175
year old woman. This is the 10th officer involved shooting in Calgary this year.

595
00:49:10.405 --> 00:49:11.695
Five of them. Fatal

596
00:49:13.195 --> 00:49:18.005
Calgary is often the city that has more officer involved shootings than

597
00:49:18.105 --> 00:49:21.685
any other city in Canada. And I dunno what the reason for that is.

598
00:49:39.785 --> 00:49:44.645
In an ideal world, the prosecution and the police should be separate.

599
00:49:44.785 --> 00:49:48.165
But in the real world, the prosecution and the police work very,

600
00:49:48.195 --> 00:49:52.405
very close together. Clearly they\'re operating above the law.

601
00:49:55.425 --> 00:49:59.605
Our crown is in Edmonton. Yeah. And usually that\'s enough division. Um,

602
00:50:00.215 --> 00:50:04.365
she\'s not gonna have to work with Calgary police service, but it may be better.

603
00:50:04.425 --> 00:50:08.525
And I\'m gonna offer her the option of, do you want us to send it out a province?

604
00:50:24.735 --> 00:50:29.445
Our feeling was obviously there was information in there that we had that they

605
00:50:29.445 --> 00:50:32.485
didn\'t want us to have or other people to have.

606
00:50:34.665 --> 00:50:38.565
I\'m inclined to think I should talk to the assistant deputy minister about it

607
00:50:39.815 --> 00:50:44.665
because in fairness to Carrie Ann, who\'s a very courageous prosecutor,

608
00:50:44.695 --> 00:50:48.865
like she\'s the cat\'s pajamas. But in fairness to her, you just,

609
00:50:48.985 --> 00:50:52.185
I I just wanna make sure something isn\'t sitting in the back of her head about

610
00:50:52.185 --> 00:50:56.025
the fact that she\'s gotta practice for the, for the next 15 years with,

611
00:50:57.325 --> 00:51:00.545
but isn\'t that the whole problem? You know, it is, but you know what I mean.

612
00:51:00.545 --> 00:51:04.305
I can tell you I prosecuted a prosecutor\'s son in this province.

613
00:51:05.445 --> 00:51:08.025
We put that aside. We do okay

614
00:51:10.235 --> 00:51:12.495
For a former crown prosecutor to say that.

615
00:51:12.495 --> 00:51:16.015
That\'s kind of an indictment on the system here, isn\'t it?

616
00:51:16.015 --> 00:51:20.975
Because she is suggesting that there are crowns within Alberta who

617
00:51:20.975 --> 00:51:23.215
don\'t have the courage to do it.

618
00:51:25.915 --> 00:51:30.815
Why should it be different for the police when looking at making the

619
00:51:30.815 --> 00:51:33.935
charges than it is for you and me? Why should that be different?

620
00:51:33.995 --> 00:51:38.415
Why should it take a courageous prosecutor to bring charges?

621
00:51:40.375 --> 00:51:44.695
A lot of crowns get the mistaken impression that the police are part of the

622
00:51:44.695 --> 00:51:48.695
team. The crown will say, I have to go talk to my officers.

623
00:51:48.975 --> 00:51:50.495
I have to make sure it\'s good with them.

624
00:51:51.965 --> 00:51:55.175
What difference does it make you, you\'re in charge here.

625
00:51:55.315 --> 00:51:56.375
It has to be good with you.

626
00:51:57.675 --> 00:52:00.055
You can\'t care about what the police think about this.

627
00:52:01.195 --> 00:52:02.775
So make no mistake,

628
00:52:03.225 --> 00:52:06.575
there is pressure and it\'s not just pressure in,

629
00:52:06.795 --> 00:52:10.495
in whether to prosecute an officer or carry on a prosecution.

630
00:52:10.745 --> 00:52:15.575
There is pressure brought to bear in any case where the police conduct is

631
00:52:15.595 --> 00:52:16.405
at issue.

632
00:52:16.405 --> 00:52:20.615
Including cases where the police have brought the charges against a citizen.

633
00:52:35.775 --> 00:52:40.135
I grew up in Ghana helping my uncle like repair cars and stuff like that.

634
00:52:40.955 --> 00:52:45.255
So that kind of got my interest and came to Canada.

635
00:52:45.455 --> 00:52:50.135
I wanted to be a heavy duty mechanic as well. So I went to school to upgrade.

636
00:52:51.715 --> 00:52:55.055
That\'s what I wanted to do. But

637
00:52:57.145 --> 00:53:00.215
after this incident I had to drop everything. \'cause

638
00:53:02.415 --> 00:53:06.295
I mean, how am I gonna be a heavy duty mechanic with back problems? Right?

639
00:53:10.325 --> 00:53:13.595
Prior to this incident, I didn\'t have no health issues. You know,

640
00:53:13.955 --> 00:53:16.875
I was strong and healthy and I was a go-getter, you know,

641
00:53:17.255 --> 00:53:21.035
but after the back injuries and all this stuff,

642
00:53:21.135 --> 00:53:23.955
it just kind of slowed me down.

643
00:53:26.285 --> 00:53:29.885
I filed a complaint five years ago and nothing has been done about it.

644
00:53:30.615 --> 00:53:35.245
Every 45 days they send me a letter saying the investigation is

645
00:53:35.455 --> 00:53:40.205
still ongoing. All these officers are still working.

646
00:53:41.225 --> 00:53:45.045
You know, who knows what they\'re doing Our day.

647
00:54:04.835 --> 00:54:09.045
Good afternoon. On Monday, May 25th, 2015,

648
00:54:09.045 --> 00:54:12.165
police were called for reports that a man had broken into his ex-girlfriend\'s

649
00:54:12.165 --> 00:54:13.565
residence and stolen a number of items.

650
00:54:14.585 --> 00:54:18.325
The man was located nearby and placed under arrest officers pulled into the

651
00:54:18.325 --> 00:54:22.165
parking lot behind the CPS court services section and removed the man from the

652
00:54:22.165 --> 00:54:25.045
back of the marked police vehicle. At this time,

653
00:54:25.045 --> 00:54:29.045
an altercation took place between one of the officers and the man resulting in

654
00:54:29.045 --> 00:54:30.925
the man being thrown to the ground while handcuffed.

655
00:54:32.505 --> 00:54:34.405
He received serious head injuries. As a result,

656
00:54:35.905 --> 00:54:38.405
the incident was captured on multiple CCTV cameras.

657
00:54:39.625 --> 00:54:42.765
The six year member of the Calgary Police Service has been charged with

658
00:54:43.005 --> 00:54:43.838
aggravated assault.

659
00:54:44.265 --> 00:54:47.365
The member is now on administrative leave and their status will be continually

660
00:54:47.605 --> 00:54:48.438
reviewed.

661
00:54:50.905 --> 00:54:55.365
So the CPS announced that one of its officers was facing these

662
00:54:55.805 --> 00:54:59.005
aggravated assault charges. They give some basic details,

663
00:54:59.065 --> 00:55:02.405
but they don\'t name the officer. A few days later,

664
00:55:02.805 --> 00:55:05.205
I was contacted by, um,

665
00:55:05.985 --> 00:55:10.485
the brother and sister-in-law of the alleged victim of this officer.

666
00:55:11.265 --> 00:55:13.245
And they came to me with this video

667
00:55:14.895 --> 00:55:19.525
After seeing what had actually happened. I knew that people needed to see it.

668
00:55:19.605 --> 00:55:21.645
I knew that what had happened wasn\'t right.

669
00:55:25.555 --> 00:55:29.445
Growing up as a kid with my dad as a cop, they were my heroes.

670
00:55:30.565 --> 00:55:33.725
I would see another police officer and he would remind me of my dad.

671
00:55:35.265 --> 00:55:39.845
And there was a point where I did think about becoming a police officer.

672
00:55:43.645 --> 00:55:48.485
I couldn\'t believe that someone would be handled so

673
00:55:48.485 --> 00:55:50.485
aggressively when they were in handcuffs.

674
00:56:02.555 --> 00:56:07.495
No one deserves to have that done to them, whether they\'re an addict or not.

675
00:56:12.875 --> 00:56:14.775
Daniel came to our office,

676
00:56:15.555 --> 00:56:20.175
his understanding was that he was under investigation for an assault of the very

677
00:56:20.285 --> 00:56:25.245
officer who ended up being charged. That\'s not unusual in my area.

678
00:56:25.755 --> 00:56:26.725
Typically speaking,

679
00:56:26.875 --> 00:56:31.605
that is the charge that people end up leaving with because the police

680
00:56:31.605 --> 00:56:33.845
needed justification for applying force

681
00:56:35.935 --> 00:56:37.245
while Daniel was in hospital.

682
00:56:37.275 --> 00:56:40.045
They had to drill a hole into his head so that they could relieve the pressure

683
00:56:40.155 --> 00:56:42.085
from the injuries to his brain.

684
00:56:42.865 --> 00:56:47.365
He had suffered traumatic brain injury and was affecting him going forward.

685
00:56:49.385 --> 00:56:50.765
His memory was affected.

686
00:56:50.905 --> 00:56:54.245
He couldn\'t remember things that you might\'ve told him five minutes before.

687
00:56:54.685 --> 00:56:56.645
I know it was hard on him when he was, uh,

688
00:56:56.655 --> 00:57:01.565
going to the rehab places and forgetting that he

689
00:57:01.565 --> 00:57:02.925
had meetings and stuff like that.

690
00:57:04.785 --> 00:57:09.245
He was wanting to get some recognition that this was wrong and

691
00:57:09.645 --> 00:57:12.965
ultimately the plan was to sue. But, uh, he never made it that far.

692
00:57:14.155 --> 00:57:16.605
Then the man arrested. How was he treated with those injuries?

693
00:57:17.625 --> 00:57:19.725
He recovered from those injuries. Um,

694
00:57:21.625 --> 00:57:26.045
but he has subsequently passed away as a result of unrelated events.

695
00:57:27.205 --> 00:57:30.645
I don\'t know where that comment about him being fully recovered would\'ve come

696
00:57:30.645 --> 00:57:33.725
from short-term memory loss was one of the problems from the traumatic brain

697
00:57:33.725 --> 00:57:34.085
injury.

698
00:57:34.085 --> 00:57:38.765
So if he\'s kicked out of treatment as a consequence of short-term memory loss

699
00:57:39.225 --> 00:57:42.805
and then immediately goes into drug seeking behavior,

700
00:57:43.035 --> 00:57:44.965
it\'s hard to say those two things are not related,

701
00:57:45.065 --> 00:57:47.205
at least in the general sense.

702
00:58:00.865 --> 00:58:04.125
Uh, why has the officers been charged, uh, not been named? Um,

703
00:58:04.145 --> 00:58:06.645
is this in relation to, uh, something over domestic nature?

704
00:58:07.345 --> 00:58:11.565
No, uh, because the officer was on duty in the execution of his duties,

705
00:58:12.295 --> 00:58:15.445
we\'ve decided not to name him in this, in this incident.

706
00:58:31.785 --> 00:58:33.445
And he just upsetting, you know,

707
00:58:33.555 --> 00:58:37.925
like this is the same guy that I filed a complaint against him.

708
00:58:38.465 --> 00:58:41.085
The police force knew the evidence, they seen the videos,

709
00:58:41.475 --> 00:58:44.245
they didn\'t do anything to protect the public.

710
00:58:45.065 --> 00:58:49.805
And this same guy goes around and beat up somebody in handcuffs

711
00:58:49.805 --> 00:58:51.805
again after he did that to me.

712
00:58:53.945 --> 00:58:57.645
God Fred makes a complaint within about a month of the misconduct.

713
00:58:58.105 --> 00:59:01.845
So the Calgary Police Service is well aware of what Lindsay did.

714
00:59:02.915 --> 00:59:04.685
Anybody would look at this,

715
00:59:05.245 --> 00:59:09.925
consider God Fred\'s complaint and would know that this is a serious problem.

716
00:59:10.475 --> 00:59:14.205
What do they do about Lindsay in the meantime? Nothing.

717
00:59:14.915 --> 00:59:19.685
They let him loose on the citizens of Calgary

718
00:59:20.465 --> 00:59:22.965
to inflict this damage on Howorth.

719
00:59:25.205 --> 00:59:29.765
I think that until a conclusion was drawn as far as that first incident,

720
00:59:30.025 --> 00:59:31.685
he should have just been behind a desk.

721
00:59:32.785 --> 00:59:37.525
It seems like it\'s an egregious error by the man.

722
00:59:37.545 --> 00:59:39.605
The management at Calgary Police Service.

723
01:00:02.665 --> 01:00:07.525
You were someone who was holding such an important public office when

724
01:00:07.525 --> 01:00:11.085
charged with a criminal offense. It\'s not unreasonable for the public\'s,

725
01:00:11.085 --> 01:00:13.685
in the public\'s interest to know who that officer was and who did it.

726
01:00:16.065 --> 01:00:20.045
We were one of the few left in the nation that wasn\'t naming officers.

727
01:00:20.645 --> 01:00:24.485
I disagreed with that. I believe that we should be aligned with the ideas of,

728
01:00:24.505 --> 01:00:25.685
of full front accountability.

729
01:00:28.075 --> 01:00:31.405
Chaffin goes in, we started seeing more officers named,

730
01:00:31.905 --> 01:00:36.445
and that was him following through on this transparency and accountability

731
01:00:36.845 --> 01:00:41.205
platform. But what that did was really upset the membership.

732
01:00:44.025 --> 01:00:47.805
It was a big problem for them. And the police union really picked up on that.

733
01:00:47.865 --> 01:00:51.925
And then there was this big tension created between Kaminsky and Chaffin.

734
01:00:54.105 --> 01:00:58.245
The vast majority of our members are absolutely outstanding police officers.

735
01:00:59.465 --> 01:01:03.765
If, if the bad ones get caught and go through the court system,

736
01:01:04.345 --> 01:01:07.445
we believe that justice will be served good cops.

737
01:01:07.585 --> 01:01:08.645
So they made it clear. I mean,

738
01:01:08.645 --> 01:01:10.845
the statements I got early was the intention was to go to war.

739
01:01:10.915 --> 01:01:14.845
Primarily the ideas of naming officers that unless I stopped that practice,

740
01:01:14.845 --> 01:01:19.485
they were simply going to try to make life very difficult and, you know, and,

741
01:01:20.025 --> 01:01:24.085
um, I was not willing to sell that ideology.

742
01:01:28.355 --> 01:01:33.055
So Les Kaminsky campaigned on the fact that he didn\'t think police officers who

743
01:01:33.215 --> 01:01:34.855
were charged with crimes should be named.

744
01:01:35.475 --> 01:01:39.135
He neglected to mention at that time that he was under criminal investigation

745
01:01:39.235 --> 01:01:42.095
and would eventually be charged with crimes.

746
01:01:43.085 --> 01:01:45.855
Controversy continues to mar the Calgary police force.

747
01:01:46.275 --> 01:01:50.215
The newly elected president of the police union has been charged now with

748
01:01:50.445 --> 01:01:51.615
perjury and assault.

749
01:01:55.615 --> 01:01:59.635
One officer hits him in the head and then he\'s fired into the van head first

750
01:01:59.945 --> 01:02:02.355
with such force that his legs go up in the air.

751
01:02:02.585 --> 01:02:04.915
Then the door of the van is slammed on his legs.

752
01:02:05.755 --> 01:02:08.115
Kaminsky testified that none of that happened.

753
01:02:14.145 --> 01:02:18.235
Then the crown bailed out on prosecuting Kaminsky.

754
01:02:18.915 --> 01:02:19.235
I mean,

755
01:02:19.235 --> 01:02:24.125
that to me really illustrated that there is some deep-rooted problem in

756
01:02:24.125 --> 01:02:25.485
the crown prosecution service.

757
01:02:26.585 --> 01:02:27.045
Hal Gray,

758
01:02:27.045 --> 01:02:31.405
police Sergeant Les Kaminsky left court Monday feeling a huge sense of relief.

759
01:02:31.745 --> 01:02:34.165
All criminal charges against him have now been dropped,

760
01:02:34.315 --> 01:02:36.485
including one count of perjury.

761
01:02:37.045 --> 01:02:37.245
I mean,

762
01:02:37.245 --> 01:02:41.885
this is a guy who knew he was under investigation and still put it out there

763
01:02:41.885 --> 01:02:45.085
that he didn\'t think police officers who were charged with crimes should be

764
01:02:45.085 --> 01:02:48.445
named. That seems like a bit of a conflict of interest.

765
01:02:50.555 --> 01:02:50.975
You know,

766
01:02:50.975 --> 01:02:53.975
I think the associations still have to keep finding their way in leadership as

767
01:02:53.975 --> 01:02:56.975
well. You know, I wanna talk about the numbers of officers being arrested.

768
01:02:57.385 --> 01:03:01.775
There is a voice for them to help prevent those things as opposed to argue about

769
01:03:01.775 --> 01:03:02.425
naming.

770
01:03:02.425 --> 01:03:06.775
Maybe spend some time working on the issues that lead to misconduct and arrest

771
01:03:06.795 --> 01:03:09.655
and see if they can raise their voice to stop that kind of behavior.

772
01:03:16.575 --> 01:03:18.855
I worked for the Calgary Police Service for 14 years.

773
01:03:20.035 --> 01:03:21.855
My first day starting in the district,

774
01:03:22.075 --> 01:03:26.055
the senior officer came up to me and he said, so are you a b***h, a slu,

775
01:03:26.135 --> 01:03:30.615
a lesbian? And I was taken aback by that comment and I thought,

776
01:03:30.755 --> 01:03:34.255
oh wow, this is this what type of environment I\'m coming into.

777
01:03:40.655 --> 01:03:44.875
We would go out for drinks and wings. I was never a drinker,

778
01:03:45.255 --> 01:03:49.955
so I always ordered water. My sergeant pulled me aside and said, Jen,

779
01:03:49.955 --> 01:03:54.755
if you wanna fit in with the team, you better start drinking. I thought,

780
01:03:54.905 --> 01:03:55.738
okay, great.

781
01:03:56.295 --> 01:04:00.995
We would go out and our booze bill would be like a $700 bill.

782
01:04:01.895 --> 01:04:05.115
And people wouldn\'t think twice like I would never drive,

783
01:04:05.255 --> 01:04:06.835
but they would be driving home after.

784
01:04:07.985 --> 01:04:12.555
That was tough to see because I thought we\'re here to enforce the law and we\'re

785
01:04:12.635 --> 01:04:13.468
breaking it.

786
01:04:14.735 --> 01:04:18.355
To me the issue was why are so many people being charged, you know,

787
01:04:18.795 --> 01:04:23.675
impaired drivings and domestic assault issues and just a myriad of

788
01:04:23.895 --> 01:04:26.595
frauds and different things. The story at the end of the day is that,

789
01:04:26.735 --> 01:04:31.595
is that you have this body of people who are upholding law and who are

790
01:04:32.105 --> 01:04:35.875
took that oath to for, you know, ob objectively administer it. And,

791
01:04:36.055 --> 01:04:38.435
and the one group that should never do these things is us.

792
01:04:38.855 --> 01:04:41.115
Yet so many officers are getting themselves positioned where they\'re being

793
01:04:41.115 --> 01:04:41.948
charged criminally.

794
01:04:49.085 --> 01:04:50.555
Today, Calgary\'s mayor,

795
01:04:50.615 --> 01:04:55.155
police chief and Police Commission stood before reporters and admitted they have

796
01:04:55.155 --> 01:04:56.275
got a problem on their hands.

797
01:04:56.585 --> 01:05:01.115
They say changes need to be made to cleanse the Calgary Police service of a

798
01:05:01.125 --> 01:05:03.835
toxic culture. One that\'s been festering for decades.

799
01:05:05.135 --> 01:05:08.995
I\'m very, very proud of the women and of the men of the Calgary Police Service.

800
01:05:10.535 --> 01:05:15.075
That\'s why reports like the things that we have heard over the last week or so

801
01:05:15.495 --> 01:05:19.205
are so troubling. They\'re not consistent with the CPS that we know.

802
01:05:22.195 --> 01:05:25.695
It was always said to me, if you want a, a good long career on this job,

803
01:05:25.765 --> 01:05:29.735
keep your mouth shut. So that\'s why things never change,

804
01:05:29.735 --> 01:05:31.095
because if you are that,

805
01:05:31.605 --> 01:05:34.695
that person who speaks out well then your career is ruined.

806
01:05:34.695 --> 01:05:39.135
You\'re gonna be what they say a street cop the rest of your life or work in the

807
01:05:39.135 --> 01:05:39.968
front counter.

808
01:05:48.685 --> 01:05:52.055
They started saying bad things about me, like, oh, you\'re a lone wolf, Jen,

809
01:05:52.055 --> 01:05:53.375
you\'re toxic to this unit.

810
01:05:54.275 --> 01:05:59.255
All because I was just trying to push a progressive idea that I felt

811
01:05:59.315 --> 01:06:02.175
was necessary for officers to have a better work life balance.

812
01:06:02.995 --> 01:06:06.215
And I was beat down at every level for doing it.

813
01:06:07.095 --> 01:06:11.135
I could no longer work for the CPS without facing retaliation or retribution

814
01:06:11.325 --> 01:06:15.775
from certain people because of what I stood and fought for. I have been bullied,

815
01:06:16.495 --> 01:06:19.335
sexually harassed, degraded, and chastised.

816
01:06:20.195 --> 01:06:24.375
The stresses of all this have had a tremendous impact on not only me and my

817
01:06:24.375 --> 01:06:29.175
mental and physical health, but also my family In particular, my husband,

818
01:06:29.515 --> 01:06:30.935
the sergeant with the Calgary Police,

819
01:06:31.275 --> 01:06:34.735
has been forced to hear the disgusting things people have said about his wife.

820
01:06:35.315 --> 01:06:38.815
In my case, I did not leave the Calgary Police Service.

821
01:06:39.035 --> 01:06:40.935
The Calgary Police Service left me.

822
01:06:44.945 --> 01:06:47.085
It was the hardest thing I\'ve ever had to do in my life.

823
01:06:47.345 --> 01:06:51.365
It was a 14 year career that yes, it had its ups and downs,

824
01:06:51.505 --> 01:06:52.765
but I grew to love the job,

825
01:06:53.825 --> 01:06:58.165
to read that out to them and just the look on the

826
01:06:58.355 --> 01:07:01.605
executive\'s face, they just kind of stood there and stared.

827
01:07:03.145 --> 01:07:06.125
My kids understood it. And the day I resigned,

828
01:07:07.405 --> 01:07:12.325
I went to the school to pick them up and,

829
01:07:16.255 --> 01:07:19.605
sorry. Um, the first thing,

830
01:07:19.645 --> 01:07:22.485
I walk in and the principal gives me a big hug

831
01:07:24.145 --> 01:07:26.365
and says, we\'re so proud of you.

832
01:07:29.025 --> 01:07:33.885
And said, thank you. Uh, I didn\'t do anything. I just left my job.

833
01:07:33.905 --> 01:07:35.765
And they said, it\'s what you stood up for.

834
01:07:37.335 --> 01:07:42.005
She\'s one of 13 people who filed formal complaints against CPS alleging bullying

835
01:07:42.145 --> 01:07:46.605
and harassment. The current and former employees include men and women,

836
01:07:47.085 --> 01:07:49.005
sworn officers and civilian members.

837
01:07:51.625 --> 01:07:53.845
We looked away, we looked away for years,

838
01:07:54.585 --> 01:07:57.845
and then the spotlight came out and found out it wasn\'t a happy workplace.

839
01:07:57.845 --> 01:08:00.725
People were being treated poorly. People had experienced terrible things.

840
01:08:00.725 --> 01:08:05.085
People had awful experiences with sexual harassment or

841
01:08:05.985 --> 01:08:08.885
all sorts of things came to light and they came to light with volume.

842
01:08:27.115 --> 01:08:31.035
I was hired in what I thought was going to be a very strategic position related

843
01:08:31.035 --> 01:08:33.475
to HR reform and culture change.

844
01:08:34.015 --> 01:08:37.515
And unfortunately learned very quickly that that was not, um,

845
01:08:37.615 --> 01:08:41.685
the way things were going to play out. They hired Sheila Ball,

846
01:08:41.745 --> 01:08:43.485
it sounded like it was gonna be great.

847
01:08:44.425 --> 01:08:49.365
And she came in and I talked to so many people outside

848
01:08:49.385 --> 01:08:52.325
the police, within the police that said she\'s not gonna last asked.

849
01:08:54.865 --> 01:08:59.485
The first meeting that I had with Chief Chaffin, the council that I received,

850
01:08:59.865 --> 01:09:01.045
was, Sheila,

851
01:09:01.545 --> 01:09:05.445
it is impossible for you to succeed in your role because what we\'ve asked you to

852
01:09:05.445 --> 01:09:06.605
do is too great.

853
01:09:08.745 --> 01:09:13.725
The executive do not want you to succeed and that they will be very happy

854
01:09:13.875 --> 01:09:15.285
that you don\'t succeed. We

855
01:09:15.285 --> 01:09:16.525
Look at the job description.

856
01:09:17.145 --> 01:09:20.485
It was very clear to me about the toxicity of the organization,

857
01:09:20.825 --> 01:09:25.405
the fear level year after year after year of

858
01:09:26.265 --> 01:09:29.045
low and declining employee morale scores.

859
01:09:30.105 --> 01:09:34.765
And there was no talk about strategy in terms of how are we going to deal with

860
01:09:34.765 --> 01:09:35.598
this.

861
01:09:38.045 --> 01:09:42.925
I I didn\'t wanna call it bullying at the time because I,

862
01:09:43.005 --> 01:09:46.685
I honestly didn\'t believe that I could be bullied while

863
01:09:47.025 --> 01:09:47.858
You birds.

864
01:09:49.475 --> 01:09:52.245
I\'ve been in some really tough environments working in the patch in Houston,

865
01:09:52.635 --> 01:09:56.965
working in a refinery between Houston and Galveston with all men

866
01:09:57.785 --> 01:10:02.565
in clan country. Um, it was a, I mean that\'s a challenging environment.

867
01:10:03.045 --> 01:10:03.165
I

868
01:10:03.165 --> 01:10:04.365
Guess the best way to say it is

869
01:10:04.365 --> 01:10:07.965
That, and so I really understand now \'cause I\'ve,

870
01:10:08.045 --> 01:10:11.445
I don\'t think I\'ve ever been bullied in my career and all I could think of every

871
01:10:11.445 --> 01:10:13.285
day is if I am feeling this bad,

872
01:10:13.285 --> 01:10:17.845
if I\'m feeling embarrassed or I\'m feeling humiliated by some of the things that

873
01:10:17.845 --> 01:10:22.365
were happening to me, I can\'t even imagine, you know,

874
01:10:22.365 --> 01:10:26.125
some of the things that had filtered up to me that were going on.

875
01:10:26.685 --> 01:10:30.805
I had some authority I thought and some power given where I was placed within

876
01:10:30.805 --> 01:10:33.685
the organization and it still happened to me

877
01:10:35.865 --> 01:10:39.245
and I wasn\'t putting up with it. I was being excluded.

878
01:10:39.745 --> 01:10:41.485
So really what was the point of me being there?

879
01:10:43.235 --> 01:10:47.925
Reforming HR is an issue that continues to come up at police commission meetings

880
01:10:47.985 --> 01:10:49.965
and it did again Tuesday with the news.

881
01:10:50.025 --> 01:10:54.205
The chief human services officer resigned after only months on the job.

882
01:10:57.265 --> 01:11:00.325
It was unfair to put that on her. She had a very important job to do,

883
01:11:01.225 --> 01:11:05.205
but you couldn\'t wear the, the moniker of culture reform by yourself.

884
01:11:05.205 --> 01:11:07.845
There\'s no way that would be

885
01:11:09.605 --> 01:11:11.605
a monumental task for one person to do.

886
01:11:15.505 --> 01:11:20.125
Police Chief Roger Chaffin is calling it quits just three years into his five

887
01:11:20.125 --> 01:11:23.365
year contract, he\'s dealt with some major issues during his time,

888
01:11:23.595 --> 01:11:27.685
including harassment and bullying in the force and a spike in police shootings.

889
01:11:28.345 --> 01:11:33.125
He got so much done in the face of a lot of opposition from the old

890
01:11:33.125 --> 01:11:33.715
guard,

891
01:11:33.715 --> 01:11:38.645
from people who prefer to have an old school police service that operates in the

892
01:11:38.645 --> 01:11:42.125
corners and not in public openly and transparently.

893
01:11:44.445 --> 01:11:47.805
I did tell them when I started that I will not be very popular for doing the

894
01:11:47.805 --> 01:11:49.285
things I\'m gonna do, but they must get done.

895
01:11:49.305 --> 01:11:51.525
And I\'m hopeful I\'ve worn a lot of that,

896
01:11:51.835 --> 01:11:54.685
that the next chief or the next management doesn\'t have to redo it again.

897
01:11:54.685 --> 01:11:58.365
They don\'t have to go back and revisit some of these, these painful issues.

898
01:11:58.385 --> 01:12:02.165
The test will be, you know, what does this look like in a year or two, you know,

899
01:12:02.265 --> 01:12:04.645
was it all for not or you know, did we keep moving forward?

900
01:12:22.905 --> 01:12:26.735
Trial is underway for a Calgary police officer charged with aggravated assault.

901
01:12:27.155 --> 01:12:32.055
The crown prosecutor says a 2015 arrest by Constable Trevor Lindsay left a

902
01:12:32.055 --> 01:12:34.695
man with a fractured skull and a brain bleed.

903
01:12:35.595 --> 01:12:40.215
His family say Howorth was not the same after that arrest and the injuries that

904
01:12:40.215 --> 01:12:41.655
he suffered on that day.

905
01:12:41.925 --> 01:12:46.295
This is a seven day trial and it is being heard by Judge alone

906
01:12:49.395 --> 01:12:53.175
In order to avoid a conflict of interest or even the appearance of a conflict.

907
01:12:53.175 --> 01:12:56.935
They have brought in prosecutors from Edmonton as well as an Edmonton judge,

908
01:12:57.555 --> 01:13:01.535
not knowing who Constable Lindsay might have come into contact with, uh,

909
01:13:01.535 --> 01:13:03.655
in his capacity as a Calgary police officer.

910
01:13:05.765 --> 01:13:07.175
From a lawyer\'s perspective,

911
01:13:07.475 --> 01:13:12.255
it didn\'t seem like anything that Daniel did on that video warranted three

912
01:13:12.255 --> 01:13:16.255
successive punches and being thrown straight to the ground. Of course,

913
01:13:16.255 --> 01:13:18.935
he can\'t put his hands in front of him to save himself from the fall.

914
01:13:19.325 --> 01:13:23.855
He\'s not assisted in any way by the officer from striking the ground.

915
01:13:24.475 --> 01:13:29.175
And then he does and it appears he goes headfirst right into the pavement and

916
01:13:29.275 --> 01:13:30.375
he doesn\'t move after that

917
01:13:31.755 --> 01:13:36.575
1117. You just have to recall that our males tap blood at us. Uh, we\'re code 15,

918
01:13:36.575 --> 01:13:39.495
but he\'s gonna need mask in a bad way. Ten four

919
01:13:40.585 --> 01:13:42.335
After he throws Danny to the ground,

920
01:13:42.835 --> 01:13:47.815
you see him walking around and he is obviously agitated.

921
01:13:48.255 --> 01:13:52.255
I imagine in his mind he\'s saying, how am I gonna get myself outta this one?

922
01:13:52.875 --> 01:13:56.935
So I\'m gonna close this door, take these photos, you know,

923
01:13:56.935 --> 01:13:57.775
here comes the sergeant.

924
01:13:57.935 --> 01:14:01.695
I want him to see that I\'m worried that I have this guy\'s blood on me.

925
01:14:03.435 --> 01:14:07.135
My opinion of all this is obviously, you know,

926
01:14:07.235 --> 01:14:09.135
one sided like this is my brother,

927
01:14:09.755 --> 01:14:14.165
but there are things that are right there that make him look extremely guilty.

928
01:14:14.725 --> 01:14:15.558
I think

929
01:14:22.895 --> 01:14:26.575
I was pretty angry like the first time I walked inside the courtroom watching

930
01:14:26.575 --> 01:14:28.295
this guy just lying and

931
01:14:30.965 --> 01:14:32.745
he thinks he can get away with it.

932
01:14:34.595 --> 01:14:36.605
He\'s sitting there like he didn\'t do anything wrong.

933
01:14:36.985 --> 01:14:41.805
And I\'m sitting there having flashbacks and PTSD, uh,

934
01:14:41.835 --> 01:14:42.925
it\'s pretty hard to watch.

935
01:14:45.625 --> 01:14:50.325
He don\'t put people in handcuffs and beat him up and assault them.

936
01:14:50.465 --> 01:14:51.845
That\'s not, that\'s not right.

937
01:15:00.915 --> 01:15:04.605
Lindsay described howorth as combative and argumentative.

938
01:15:05.065 --> 01:15:08.205
And then after that first punch that he delivers to Howorth,

939
01:15:08.305 --> 01:15:11.485
he describes Howorth as sort of twisting to spit,

940
01:15:11.545 --> 01:15:15.485
at least in his direction and fearing that that spit was mixed with blood.

941
01:15:15.545 --> 01:15:19.165
He said he was terrified that he was going to contract some kind of disease.

942
01:15:21.305 --> 01:15:22.325
If there was spitting,

943
01:15:22.325 --> 01:15:27.125
it certainly could not have been in the direction of the officer from the angles

944
01:15:27.125 --> 01:15:29.765
visible on the video. So if he was spitting,

945
01:15:30.065 --> 01:15:33.405
it would\'ve been in the direction of the car or the pavement somewhere.

946
01:15:35.185 --> 01:15:36.565
So under Cross-examination,

947
01:15:36.585 --> 01:15:40.485
Trevor Lindsay talked about the notes that he wrote following this incident.

948
01:15:40.545 --> 01:15:44.445
So he took incredibly detailed notes, 19 pages of notes,

949
01:15:44.985 --> 01:15:49.285
but in those notes he never mentions those three punches that we can see on the

950
01:15:49.285 --> 01:15:51.045
video. Right before that take down,

951
01:15:54.955 --> 01:15:58.045
Sitting in trial was really hard for my mom.

952
01:15:59.865 --> 01:16:04.085
Uh, that definitely affected me. Um,

953
01:16:07.185 --> 01:16:12.045
he was very nonchalant and smiling and making jokes and all

954
01:16:12.045 --> 01:16:14.565
of that did really, really get under my skin

955
01:16:18.095 --> 01:16:19.005
going into trial.

956
01:16:19.005 --> 01:16:22.845
There were times before that I was like thinking that I might go in there and I

957
01:16:22.845 --> 01:16:25.525
might hear something in there that might justify what he did.

958
01:16:25.755 --> 01:16:30.245
Like I was trying to leave my mind open to the truth of the matter.

959
01:16:30.665 --> 01:16:33.285
And after sitting in trial, the truth of the matter is,

960
01:16:33.305 --> 01:16:36.925
is that that guy just snapped and hurt my brother

961
01:16:38.785 --> 01:16:41.845
and he doesn\'t show a single sign of remorse.

962
01:16:44.075 --> 01:16:47.365
Like he obviously, it doesn\'t seem like he thinks he did anything wrong.

963
01:17:23.755 --> 01:17:27.165
This is gonna be Lindsay\'s sixth hearing, I believe.

964
01:17:28.125 --> 01:17:30.645
I don\'t know what\'s gonna happen, but hopefully some good news.

965
01:17:33.555 --> 01:17:38.445
They sent my file to the main prosecutor\'s office and they decided not to lay

966
01:17:38.465 --> 01:17:42.995
no charges on Lindsey \'cause they said there\'s not enough evidence,

967
01:17:43.575 --> 01:17:46.275
but there was enough evidence in he was video, right?

968
01:17:46.275 --> 01:17:49.915
Like what do you see in that video that you don\'t see in my video?

969
01:17:50.255 --> 01:17:54.835
We both in handcuffs getting assaulted. So the fact that they don\'t charge him,

970
01:17:55.055 --> 01:17:57.675
in my case, it\'s just ridiculous, man.

971
01:18:00.375 --> 01:18:01.955
Racism at his finest. You know,

972
01:18:32.525 --> 01:18:36.655
this hearing was just a joke. It\'s a waste of taxpayer\'s money.

973
01:18:37.325 --> 01:18:40.895
It\'s a waste of my time and everybody\'s time that came there, it\'s a joke.

974
01:18:42.435 --> 01:18:47.255
So like the same thing they said from November, they postponed it, what,

975
01:18:47.355 --> 01:18:51.975
six, seven months after And they come back today. Same thing.

976
01:18:54.035 --> 01:18:56.775
You see, this is why they went and he went and assaulted another guy.

977
01:18:57.575 --> 01:18:59.255
\'cause he filed complaints. They don\'t take it serious.

978
01:19:07.455 --> 01:19:11.195
It is just frustrating, like not being able to work financially,

979
01:19:11.215 --> 01:19:15.435
not stable family members calling you from back home asking for, you know,

980
01:19:15.435 --> 01:19:19.155
financial help. My moms and sisters and cousins and

981
01:19:20.855 --> 01:19:25.635
you know, And it hurts, you know,

982
01:19:26.215 --> 01:19:30.755
to be able to not be able to help them out. Like it just,

983
01:19:32.185 --> 01:19:33.235
it\'s very frustrating.

984
01:19:36.825 --> 01:19:37.658
Come here,

985
01:19:41.535 --> 01:19:44.915
It is been more than five years and the investigation\'s not done.

986
01:19:45.335 --> 01:19:47.755
So they will prosecute at the drop of a hat.

987
01:19:49.115 --> 01:19:52.715
Somebody who is alleged to have committed an offense against a police officer.

988
01:19:53.775 --> 01:19:57.315
And they will carry that right on. Just like they, they did in Godfrey\'s case.

989
01:19:58.615 --> 01:20:02.835
Yet it should have been plain as day that there were police officers who should

990
01:20:02.835 --> 01:20:03.668
have been charged.

991
01:20:05.245 --> 01:20:09.285
God\'s case clearly illustrates the double standard in that regard.

992
01:20:11.155 --> 01:20:14.525
Unfortunately that\'s the way it is in a lot of cases.

993
01:20:33.945 --> 01:20:37.085
You know, it wasn\'t planned. We were driving and I said to my husband,

994
01:20:37.435 --> 01:20:38.685
there\'s a hotel right there.

995
01:20:39.445 --> 01:20:42.565
I went in and I asked if I could see the room.

996
01:20:43.525 --> 01:20:48.245
I had the guy from the front desk stand on the other side and you

997
01:20:48.245 --> 01:20:50.965
couldn\'t see anything the way that the room is designed.

998
01:20:51.445 --> 01:20:52.445
I knew that they were lying.

999
01:20:52.605 --> 01:20:56.245
I remember like leaving and just calling my parents right away and I was like,

1000
01:20:56.245 --> 01:20:59.805
I I was just at the hotel room and you can\'t see anything.

1001
01:21:00.445 --> 01:21:01.765
I mean that\'s the story.

1002
01:21:01.945 --> 01:21:06.285
The story is that he could see Anthony pacing back and forth and seeming

1003
01:21:06.485 --> 01:21:09.125
agitated and that\'s why he called for backup.

1004
01:21:14.185 --> 01:21:17.605
It is impossibility you cannot see in the room.

1005
01:21:18.865 --> 01:21:21.405
And as far as you know, it\'s Officer McLaughlin,

1006
01:21:21.985 --> 01:21:26.765
that\'s the only one that said he could see an anslee in the room. So he\'s lying.

1007
01:21:27.275 --> 01:21:28.205
He\'s lying about it.

1008
01:21:30.025 --> 01:21:33.765
And in 72 seconds after they enter the room,

1009
01:21:34.265 --> 01:21:35.125
our son is dead.

1010
01:21:40.475 --> 01:21:41.308
There\'s the

1011
01:21:47.175 --> 01:21:48.605
where the bullet we\'ve gone through.

1012
01:21:49.625 --> 01:21:50.458
Oh my god.

1013
01:21:51.625 --> 01:21:53.765
He seems to, he collapsed this

1014
01:21:56.075 --> 01:21:59.365
here I guess. Unbelievable how you get a five,

1015
01:22:00.675 --> 01:22:05.405
Five heavily armed officers in, in this room. There\'s nowhere to go.

1016
01:22:05.865 --> 01:22:06.698
No.

1017
01:22:07.905 --> 01:22:10.445
And if in fact he was holding a syringe,

1018
01:22:10.995 --> 01:22:13.445
they can\'t see that it didn\'t have a needle tip.

1019
01:22:13.905 --> 01:22:14.405
And as if,

1020
01:22:14.405 --> 01:22:17.405
if he did have something in his hand is if he couldn\'t knock it outta the baton

1021
01:22:17.405 --> 01:22:20.565
or something. Anything if he\'s standing there, I mean like what is this?

1022
01:22:22.545 --> 01:22:26.965
Oh god, I can\'t believe what Anthony must have gone through like oh the terror.

1023
01:22:27.625 --> 01:22:28.458
Oh

1024
01:22:29.865 --> 01:22:31.685
And then to have shot Oh dear.

1025
01:22:31.875 --> 01:22:36.085
Into the floor bullets again were in the floor by Anthony\'s head.

1026
01:22:36.085 --> 01:22:40.925
So he had to definitely shoot at Anthony when he was down and dead on the floor

1027
01:22:40.925 --> 01:22:44.965
because they said all of the bullets were fatal.

1028
01:22:45.825 --> 01:22:50.585
It didn\'t take four bullets to kill him. The first bullet killed him. Oh my God.

1029
01:22:50.585 --> 01:22:55.545
So then just to keep on shooting. Yeah, it\'s so cowardly.

1030
01:22:59.635 --> 01:23:04.055
You know, it\'s unbelievable that Eric to PanIN could have the audacity

1031
01:23:05.185 --> 01:23:08.965
to say that excessive force wasn\'t used,

1032
01:23:09.195 --> 01:23:11.445
that the force used was necessary.

1033
01:23:11.795 --> 01:23:12.085
Well,

1034
01:23:12.085 --> 01:23:16.765
Eric told PanIN should come up here and take a look around the room and maybe he

1035
01:23:16.765 --> 01:23:21.645
could see it\'s not reasonable that what the judgment he

1036
01:23:21.645 --> 01:23:23.685
came out that they could not prosecute.

1037
01:23:24.715 --> 01:23:26.885
It\'s all over for Anthony Heffernan.

1038
01:23:38.585 --> 01:23:39.075
People

1039
01:23:39.075 --> 01:23:42.365
Have to be held responsible for their actions. Oh,

1040
01:23:42.515 --> 01:23:44.685
there\'s no way Anthony should be dead. No,

1041
01:23:45.545 --> 01:23:47.445
No, no.

1042
01:24:30.935 --> 01:24:32.105
Well, Calgary police service,

1043
01:24:32.855 --> 01:24:36.785
they were flying under the radar with all of the misconduct happening within

1044
01:24:36.785 --> 01:24:37.618
their ranks.

1045
01:24:37.765 --> 01:24:41.145
But now they\'ve been caught and they\'ve been caught in very public ways.

1046
01:24:42.045 --> 01:24:45.385
And so the chickens have come home to roost for the Calgary police service.

1047
01:24:46.605 --> 01:24:50.265
All of these things, all of these terrible, uh,

1048
01:24:50.265 --> 01:24:54.145
crimes being committed by their officers is a symptom of them not doing

1049
01:24:54.145 --> 01:24:56.905
something about it. 10, 15, 20 years ago.

1050
01:24:59.775 --> 01:25:01.545
When it comes to picking a new police chief,

1051
01:25:01.545 --> 01:25:04.785
people are looking at whether it\'s gonna be internal or external.

1052
01:25:05.495 --> 01:25:09.985
They need somebody who\'s not sort of politically connected to either side

1053
01:25:10.365 --> 01:25:12.385
to come in and shake things up.

1054
01:25:14.855 --> 01:25:19.745
Mark Neufeld has been sworn in as Calgary\'s new police chief Neufeld takes

1055
01:25:19.745 --> 01:25:23.745
charge at a time when the force is plagued by accusations of bullying and sexual

1056
01:25:23.795 --> 01:25:27.625
harassment. He pledged to make respect a cornerstone of policing

1057
01:25:28.365 --> 01:25:29.225
Ted Chuck.

1058
01:25:30.775 --> 01:25:33.825
There\'s been a lot of assumption that because he\'s from outside the

1059
01:25:33.825 --> 01:25:34.435
organization,

1060
01:25:34.435 --> 01:25:38.945
he\'ll be the silver bullet to all our problems or the magic pill

1061
01:25:39.485 --> 01:25:41.025
to all problems. I think that\'s unfair.

1062
01:25:41.525 --> 01:25:44.505
So to put so much on him is unrealistic.

1063
01:25:48.905 --> 01:25:49.985
I think you have to be really careful,

1064
01:25:49.985 --> 01:25:52.385
especially as a new chief coming into an organization.

1065
01:25:53.065 --> 01:25:54.945
I think we have great people and again,

1066
01:25:54.945 --> 01:25:58.825
I think we have some people as every organization does, um,

1067
01:25:59.005 --> 01:26:02.545
who are not adhering to the values and, and who don\'t, uh, um,

1068
01:26:03.205 --> 01:26:04.245
represent us the way we would hope.

1069
01:26:04.505 --> 01:26:07.445
And I think that\'s a personal affront to a lot of our good employees as well.

1070
01:26:11.485 --> 01:26:14.305
For serious misconduct, you have to have punishment.

1071
01:26:14.305 --> 01:26:19.145
There has to be consequences so that other like-minded officers will be

1072
01:26:19.185 --> 01:26:21.305
deterred from behaving that way.

1073
01:26:21.845 --> 01:26:26.825
And so that it shows that the leadership of the police service is an

1074
01:26:26.825 --> 01:26:29.065
ethical one and they won\'t stand for it.

1075
01:26:31.785 --> 01:26:32.545
I think for too long,

1076
01:26:32.545 --> 01:26:35.345
organizations have done this where when something goes wrong,

1077
01:26:35.815 --> 01:26:38.425
they hang out an individual to dry and then they say, well, you know,

1078
01:26:38.425 --> 01:26:39.865
there we go. We dealt with that, you know,

1079
01:26:39.925 --> 01:26:44.025
Bob was bad and we dealt with Bob and now we\'re good. But I think, you know,

1080
01:26:44.025 --> 01:26:46.945
you this bad apples versus bad barrel is, uh,

1081
01:26:47.325 --> 01:26:50.185
is they\'re very different things and I think we\'ve always gotta be looking at

1082
01:26:50.185 --> 01:26:53.625
the barrel to make sure it\'s not the barrel that is actually tainting the

1083
01:26:53.625 --> 01:26:56.505
apples. We do see an uptick in use of the

1084
01:26:56.525 --> 01:26:59.985
Use of, so I would put a lot of confidence that he\'s a the right kind of person,

1085
01:27:00.165 --> 01:27:02.785
but what\'s everybody else gonna do? That\'s really the question.

1086
01:27:02.785 --> 01:27:06.105
Where\'s everybody else gonna be in this picture and around the idea of reforms,

1087
01:27:06.105 --> 01:27:09.345
people are going to have to let go of the past and start looking at what do we

1088
01:27:09.345 --> 01:27:12.745
need to do to create a more vibrant, more positive organization.

1089
01:27:12.845 --> 01:27:15.265
And I hope they give him the chance to do that

1090
01:27:51.175 --> 01:27:54.985
Just \'cause he, he\'s got a uniform and, and a badge and a gun to me.

1091
01:27:55.025 --> 01:27:59.785
He can go around beating people in handcuffs like, nah,

1092
01:28:01.375 --> 01:28:02.585
it\'s not acceptable man.

1093
01:28:05.525 --> 01:28:09.585
So the judge read portions from his 30 page written decision and essentially he

1094
01:28:09.585 --> 01:28:12.745
found that Haworth after he had been initially punched in the face,

1095
01:28:13.365 --> 01:28:14.865
had the need to spit blood.

1096
01:28:14.885 --> 01:28:18.465
He had it collected in his mouth and in fact he had spat blood towards the back

1097
01:28:18.465 --> 01:28:21.225
of the police car. So nowhere near the officers.

1098
01:28:21.645 --> 01:28:26.585
The judge also found that Lindsey could have controlled the situation by simply

1099
01:28:26.775 --> 01:28:29.825
keeping Howorth pressed up against his police cruiser,

1100
01:28:29.825 --> 01:28:32.785
that he had control of that handcuffed suspect.

1101
01:28:33.165 --> 01:28:37.985
And it was only in the moments where he was hauling howorth away from the police

1102
01:28:38.085 --> 01:28:41.345
car that things sort of got out of control and that\'s when the punching

1103
01:28:41.625 --> 01:28:42.215
occurred.

1104
01:28:42.215 --> 01:28:46.585
Essentially the judge found that none of the use of force was justified.

1105
01:28:46.645 --> 01:28:51.505
And so Constable Trevor Lindsey was found guilty of aggravated assault.

1106
01:28:59.345 --> 01:29:03.085
My client and I are disappointed at the outcome.

1107
01:29:03.425 --> 01:29:06.885
We have taken the time to, to conduct a preliminary review,

1108
01:29:07.085 --> 01:29:09.885
a very preliminary review of the judgment. Uh,

1109
01:29:10.125 --> 01:29:13.325
I expect I will be receiving instructions to appeal.

1110
01:29:17.575 --> 01:29:22.315
I\'m happy to see justice served and I\'m glad with the judge\'s, um, decision.

1111
01:29:24.575 --> 01:29:27.715
The last time we were in court, I saw how\'s mom crying?

1112
01:29:28.615 --> 01:29:33.195
It really got to me like, here is this poor lady, you know, losing his son.

1113
01:29:34.755 --> 01:29:37.855
And I think if they had done something about it when I filed a complaint,

1114
01:29:38.425 --> 01:29:40.455
maybe how would still be alive? You know,

1115
01:29:43.435 --> 01:29:45.535
Not every cop is going out there hurting people.

1116
01:29:45.645 --> 01:29:50.535
There\'s cops out there that are giving addicts like my brother mouth to mouth

1117
01:29:50.775 --> 01:29:54.135
resuscitation and rushing them to the hospital to try and save their life,

1118
01:29:54.135 --> 01:29:57.325
right? Police officers,

1119
01:29:57.565 --> 01:30:01.765
I think need to still be held accountable for their actions.

1120
01:30:03.465 --> 01:30:07.285
Yes, they have a hard job. Not everyone can do their job,

1121
01:30:08.225 --> 01:30:12.125
but that doesn\'t give them an excuse to abuse their power.

1122
01:30:31.885 --> 01:30:36.615
Hopefully one day all this will be over and can take a trip back and go see the

1123
01:30:36.615 --> 01:30:40.975
family and you know, just relax, enjoy some good food and just enjoy my country,

1124
01:30:41.075 --> 01:30:44.135
you know? But yeah,

1125
01:30:44.135 --> 01:30:47.175
hopefully one day soon I\'ll be going back.

1126
01:30:49.495 --> 01:30:54.095
I still get like serious anxieties when I see cops I get this anger,

1127
01:30:54.235 --> 01:30:58.095
you know? But then again, not all cops are bad cops, right?

1128
01:30:59.035 --> 01:31:01.055
But in my eyes they\'re all the same.

1129
01:31:01.335 --> 01:31:04.135
\'cause in my situation they was like,

1130
01:31:04.135 --> 01:31:06.815
how many cops involved and nobody did the right thing.

1131
01:31:06.915 --> 01:31:11.255
So so where\'s the good one? Like, you know,

1132
01:31:24.515 --> 01:31:29.245
It\'s hard to explain to my son that his grandfather was a police

1133
01:31:29.245 --> 01:31:33.445
officer. You know, don\'t be scared of cops. They\'re there to protect you, right?

1134
01:31:34.075 --> 01:31:36.125
Because when he first saw the video,

1135
01:31:36.225 --> 01:31:39.925
he came to me like absolutely destroyed, right?

1136
01:31:39.925 --> 01:31:41.485
This is his uncle that he loved.

1137
01:31:42.985 --> 01:31:46.285
He was terrified that it was gonna happen to him. He was asking me,

1138
01:31:46.285 --> 01:31:50.765
well what if I get arrested? Am I gonna get beat up? Which is sad.

1139
01:31:51.745 --> 01:31:56.685
And of course I\'m not gonna say anything negative about the police to my son

1140
01:31:57.285 --> 01:32:01.445
\'cause I want him to be able to feel confident calling the police

1141
01:32:03.065 --> 01:32:05.045
if he\'s in trouble. Not scared

1142
01:32:05.585 --> 01:32:06.418
To call them.

1143
01:32:22.665 --> 01:32:25.385
I don\'t think the same way that I used to. I mean,

1144
01:32:25.385 --> 01:32:29.265
our family was called by so many other families who have had, um,

1145
01:32:29.285 --> 01:32:34.025
family members, um, beaten or killed by the police. And um,

1146
01:32:34.845 --> 01:32:37.305
you know, the stories aren\'t always the same,

1147
01:32:37.605 --> 01:32:40.585
but what was the same is that it shouldn\'t have happened.

1148
01:32:40.645 --> 01:32:41.585
It didn\'t have to happen.

1149
01:32:42.165 --> 01:32:46.385
So I don\'t inherently trust in our legal system at all anymore.

1150
01:32:58.685 --> 01:33:01.985
It was so traumatic. It was so traumatic for all of us.

1151
01:33:03.925 --> 01:33:07.785
Oh my goodness. And it has affected, you know,

1152
01:33:07.885 --> 01:33:12.265
our kids as well in, in all sorts of different ways.

1153
01:33:15.725 --> 01:33:18.385
People often say, you know, how are things going? Whatever.

1154
01:33:18.605 --> 01:33:21.265
And they hate to bring it up and will say, it\'s always with us.

1155
01:33:21.265 --> 01:33:23.425
Never worry about that. It\'s always with us.

1156
01:33:23.495 --> 01:33:27.465
Usually the first thing I think when I wake up and it\'s always the last thing I

1157
01:33:27.465 --> 01:33:29.065
think about when I go to sleep at night.

1158
01:33:30.615 --> 01:33:32.625
Injustice is an awful thing.

1159
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And we begin tonight with the bird\'s eye view of Calgary as marchers make their

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way to city Hall.

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This shot giving you a real sense of just how many Calians came out today to

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take part in this demonstration.

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My name is God Die. I was beat up by the police six and a half years ago.

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I was kidnapped, put in handcuffs, TAed three f*****g times,

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and they beat the s**t out of me.

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I\'m here to fight for justice for black people and I know Black Lives matter.

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That\'s why we all here. What happened to George was very sad,

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but we got our own issues out here in Calgary, in this province,

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in this country.

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The message I\'m trying to get across is we don\'t want no police brutality.

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We don\'t want no systemic racism. We want equality.

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We want freedom, and we want justice. Yeah.

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Black lives, black lives matter.

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Black lives Black Lives matter. Black lives,

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black Lives matter. Black lives matter.

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Black lives matter. Black lives. To see all these people come together,

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you know, fighting against injustice, racism, police brutality is beautiful,

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man. It\'s, it\'s, it\'s beautiful and I\'m, I\'m so glad to be a part of it.

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Change is coming soon, people. Hold on. Change is coming soon. Stay strong,

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stay together and keep fighting.