Monthly Archives: June 2021
A man who was experiencing mental health distress died after being taken into custody by RCMP in Surrey, British Columbia, in the early morning of June 28, 2021. The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) of BC is investigating. They report that police responded to several reports of a man “behaving erratically” in the Newton area at around 12:30 AM. RCMP claim that calls said a man was “banging on vehicle doors, hiding in bushes, and stating that he was hiding from police.”
RCMP found a man in the yard of a residence in the 6900-block of 134A Street and he was taken into police custody under the Mental Health Act. At some point the man went into medical crisis and was transported to hospital where he was pronounced dead. No other details have been made available publicly, including what specific interactions RCMP had with the victim.
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Cold Lake RCMP shot and killed a man near Ardmore, Alberta, on the evening of June 20, 2021. Ardmore is 260 kilometers north of Edmonton.
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) is investigating the killing. They report that at around 6:50 PM Cold Lake RCMP received a call about a “dispute” inside a vehicle. Officers undertook a search, deploying a police dog team to track a person.
At some point RCMP officers located a man and an officer fired their weapon. The victim was struck and died at the scene.
This is the second person shot and killed by RCMP in Alberta in two days. Lionel Ernest Grey (29), of the Gift Lake Metis Settlement, was shot and killed on June 18 near High Prairie. In both cases police engaged in foot searches and used dogs to track the victims.
Alberta police have deployed tracking dogs and killed two people in two days—over failure to make a traffic stop and an undisclosed “dispute” inside a vehicle respectively.
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Alberta RCMP killed 29-year-old Lionel Ernest Grey, of the Gift Lake Métis Settlement, on June 18, 2021, in the Winigami Lake Provincial Park, about 30 kilometres northwest of High Prairie, Alberta, during a police operation that started on June 17. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) is investigating the killing. It has been reported that police shot Grey and that he was taken into custody, later dying from his injuries.
Police used helicopters and a tracking dog to pursue Grey. The police dog died during the operation.
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It is reported that an RCMP officer has been involved in a fatal shooting in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador, on June 11, 2021 at around 3 AM. Oddly the province’s Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) are not reporting how many people were killed or any details of the shooting.
Witnesses report hearing multiple gunshots and at least four officers were on scene. SIRT have only said that a number of people are under investigation, but not the exact number or for what. It has also been reported that RCMP deployed a taser.
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The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) is investigating the death of a 35-year-old man in Airdrie RCMP custody on June 7, 2021. They report that the man was arrested at around 1:40 PM on June 6 in relation to an “uttering threats investigation.” During the arrest, the man sustained injuries when he was pushed to the ground by officers.
While awaiting the arrival of EMS, officers put the man in a police vehicle. They claim that while there he appeared to “deliberately strike his head on the Plexiglass shield” between seats. This has not been confirmed publicly and it has not been reported if there were any witnesses.
When EMS arrived the victim was examined and transported to hospital before being released back into police custody. He was later taken by RCMP to the cell block at Airdrie detachment. He was remanded into custody at a judicial release hearing on June 7 shortly after 9:30 AM and before noon that same day, EMS was called to the cell block because the man appeared to be in medical distress.
According to the RCMP, prior to EMS arrival the man became unresponsive. They claim that he was briefly resuscitated and was transported to a local area hospital where he was declared dead at 1:31 PM.
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Edmonton police shot and killed a man in the late evening of June 5 in north Edmonton. According to the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT), Edmonton police were called at 11:05 PM regarding a weapons complaint outside of a residence in the Rosslyn neighbourhood, near 134 Avenue and 107 Street. Two police officers confronted a man on arrival and an officer fired a weapon striking and killing the man. The victim was declared dead at the scene. No other details have been provided publicly.
This was the second police shooting in Edmonton that day. Earlier in the day a man was shot and injured during a multi-agency search in Parkland County.
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The Edmundston, New Brunswick, police officer who shot and killed Chantel Moore in 2020 has been identified as Constable Jeremy Son in documents obtained by CBC News. Chantel Moore, a 26-year-old Indigenous woman from Tlaoquiaht First Nation, was shot multiple times and killed in the early morning of June 4 during a police “wellness check.” Moore suffered three shots to the back and two to the chest, and her leg was broken. Constable Son was removed from active duty for three weeks before he was put back on the job in an administrative role.
An investigation into the killing has been carried out by Quebec’s police oversight agency, the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI), but the results have not been released publicly. The BEI is not an independent body and relies on police forces to carry out their investigations.
Chantel Moore’s family has called for a public inquiry into systemic racism in policing in Canada. Despite calls from numerous Indigenous leaders, New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs refused to hold a public inquiry into systemic racism in the province’s justice system.
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A 50-year-old man died days after going into medical distress when Edmonton Police Service (EPS) officers restrained him in while he was in an ambulance on May 27. According to the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT), EMS were dispatched to a residence in response calls regarding a man who had been found passed out on the floor at around 11:15 PM. A short time before midnight, EMS paramedics requested police assistance. Several EPS members arrived and assisted in restraining the man, who was already inside the ambulance. At some point, the man went into medical distress and became unresponsive. He was transported to hospital where he died on May 30.
ASIRT only reported the man’s death publicly on June 1. No explanation has been given for the delay in reporting the man’s death.
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