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Aboriginal leaders want public inquiry after shooting

Updated Tue. Aug. 5 2008 1:00 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Aboriginal leaders are calling for a full public inquiry after 26-year-old Craig McDougall was shot and killed by Winnipeg police on Saturday.

McDougall was a member of the Wasagamack First Nation reserve. He was also the nephew of J.J. Harper -- a native leader shot and killed by police 20 years ago after being mistaken for a car thief.

"We are now officially calling for a full public inquiry into the Winnipeg Police Services given the recent increase in complaints and incidents in deadly and violent actions against our people," St. Theresa Point First Nation Chief Robert Flett told reporters Tuesday.

"We will also be seeking public support to demand accountability of the Winnipeg Police Services."

The officers involved were responding to calls for help from a house in west-end Winnipeg at about 5 a.m. Saturday morning.

Police say McDougall refused to drop a knife and, after efforts to subdue him with a Taser failed, they shot him multiple times.

Police did not make clear why the Taser device did not work.

"The recent killings of our youth will no longer be tolerated," said Flett. "We are planning further legal and political actions."

He said formal complaints will be filed with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission and the United Nations.

McDougall's death marks the second time in less than two weeks that a person died after an encounter with Winnipeg Police.

Michael Langan, 17, died shortly after being Tasered by police. Police said he too was armed with a knife and refused to drop it.

It was the force's first fatality involving a Taser.

With files from The Canadian Press




I will say openly...Canada you disgust me.....and I no longer want to or am willing to be part of your country....at the first opportunity I am out of there.....You are a stain on the international community for your treatment of Native people yet you are great at covering that up...Thank God for people who are willing to tell the truth about what you hide so well!!!!!!!!!!

Damn.....sounds like the USA

no respect for human life live by the gun die by the gun....

Well it's just getting too much...It's going on here where I live in Ontario and all over Canada and the truth that it won't change I guess has just hit me...we have already been through the inquiry process here after the cold blooded murder of Dudley George by a police sniper at a peaceful land protest...after a number of years I might add...at first the government wouldn't even call an inquiry...then last year the truth of his death finally came out in the final report and it would make you sick to read what the police did to cover it up and lie about it....Anyway...it didn't change a thing...Now we have a Police Commissioner here in Ontario who has declared open season on Native people....so you can see how much good it did!!!!!!!!

can't be much of a commissioner if he let's that happen

It was the force's first fatality involving a Taser.

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hmmm- don't think the taser did it- the hail of bullets perhaps

what happened to trying to stop someone by h'just wounding to 'disarm'

chiling news indeed-

Then there's Julian Fantino, police commissioner, trying to avoid an enquiry about him threatening to kill the Mohawks at last years 401 protest. He also OK'd illegal wire taps on some Mohawks who were not involved at all.

He's the one advocating it....he's the one planting fake weapons in the media to justify the calling out of armed tru teams (snipers) and tactical squads against unarmed men...women and children at peaceful protests against poverty...the slowness of land claims...unsafe drinking water in Native communities etc...there have been three instances of this alone in my community in the last year...and the truth of just how close to death these people were only just came out a few weeks ago when testimony of the Police Commissioner and taped conversations from the police bugging the phone of one protester were released after the Crown Attorney trying to suppress it.....The phone calls where he is threatening this protester and his own testimony showed all this to be true...they also bugged his brothers phone who is a lawyer and had nothing to do with the protest and another friend of his phone....oh yes it was very telling info...this was released to the media finally after they fought for it to be in court!!!!!!!!!!


So this is out police force here....a very telling story indeed......

That's who I am talking about only it's much worse than that....him calling out snipers and tactical squads against unarmed men...women and children 3 times in a year according to his own testimony is something that a lot of people haven't looked at or chose not to....the one incident he didn't testify about but it just happened in April and I followed it every day...there were no weapons there either even after about 150 armed cops drew their guns on protesters which was reported in the media...however...I got it right from one of their own men that they blew up a picture they took of the protester who supposedly had "the long gun" and it was a stick...yet you didn't see the fact the protesters were armed being retracted in the media by the O.P.P....the other 2 incidents...you can see by Fantinos testimony if you look close enough and put it together that he also knew then they weren't armed...yet it was placed in the media at the time that they were to justify his calling out of armed teams....and remember this was against groups of no more than 20 -30 Native people.