The chief of the Metepenagiag (met-EHH’-peh-nah-ghee-ah) First Nation says the community will never forget or stop fighting for Rodney Levi who was shot dead by the R-C-M-P last year.
Chief Bill Ward says it was infuriating to learn this week that no criminal charges would be laid against the officers involved in the shooting last June.
The province’s prosecutions service concluded the responding officers acted lawfully to protect themselves and civilians who were present at the home in Sunny Corner, where witnesses said Levi was waving knives and lunged toward an officer.
Indigenous leaders are still calling for an independant inquiry in the shootings of Levi as well as Chantal Moore in Edmundston.