Posted: May 30, 2021 1:51 PM ET | Last Updated: May 30
Kerri McKee, centre, of the Montreal Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan as a young RCMP officer. She retired from the force as an inspector in 2019, after a career she's proud of but admits was tinged with racism from colleagues.(Submitted by Kerri McKee)
By her eighth year in the RCMP, Const. Kerri McKee of the Montreal Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan thought she was used to the insults and small acts of aggression that came with being both an Indigenous woman and a police officer.
That was before the now-retired Mountie had to remove an intoxicated passenger from a Greyhound bus parked at a gas station off a highway in Newfoundland and Labrador on her own. The backup she called for, she said, was a long time in coming.