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15 days and 6 Indigenous people have died when coming in contact with police across Canada (www.aptnnews.ca)
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Amber Joseph says when she arrived on the scene just after her brother Steven Dedam was shot by the RCMP, she was shocked.

“When I came in they didn’t have compression on him,” she told APTN News. “He was shot three times. The first thing they did was handcuff him and say he was ‘under arrest.’

“He was shot in the chest.”

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (7 children)

(Brandi) Morin made a critical point during her speech. If the proportion of Indigenous people killed by police was put into the terms of the general population, it would equal 127 Canadians killed by police in two weeks.

And silence from main street news.

This country sucks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

And silence from main street news.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/elsipogtog-march-killed-police-1.7324715

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-shooting-elsipogtog-family-statement-1.7321343

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/wellness-check-rcmp-sirt-dedam-1.7322914

Weird that you say that considering CBC has run three stories in the last few days, and broke it before your source did.

But wait! There's more!

https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/mi-kmaq-death-first-nation-wants-indigenous-representation-on-n-b-police-watchdog-1.7033973

https://globalnews.ca/news/10750832/mikmaq-death-first-nation-wants-indigenous-representation-on-n-b-police-watchdog/

Both sources broke it the day before your source published their article.

It is a fucked up problem that needs to be addressed immediately and it will not be solved by lying in order to virtue signal.

This country sucks.

What exactly are you doing about it other than the aforementioned spread of misinformation?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm with girlfreddy on this.

I don't recall watching this on TV the evening news, or hearing about it over the radio.

It's good that the major Canadian outlets are covering it online (and I hope in print?) but it sucks that the visibility is not so high. Unless you're watching the right feeds, it'd be easy to miss that this happened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Their point was no one else is covering it and I clearly demonstrated that not only were they flat out lying, their own source covered it a day after every one of my sources published their articles.

I’m with girlfreddy on this.

Then you are equally wrong.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago

Their point was no one else is covering it

You'd have to provide a quote for that, as I don't see it.

FYI this ain't it,

And silence from main street news.

I'll refer you to this definition of "main street" to prevent further confusion, https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/main-street

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