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Surrey Police Board member Harley Chappell said Monday that it wasn’t a “smart” decision to pose for photographs in 2018 with two full-patch Hells Angels at a memorial service.
“Hindsight is 2020. In this situation, was it a smart decision? No,” Chappell said in an interview with Postmedia on the Semiahmoo First Nation.
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“But it is a friend of mine saying, ‘I want to take pictures of my mother’s memorial.’”
Postmedia revealed two weeks ago that the recently appointed police board member had posed with White Rock Hells Angels Brent Milne and Douglas “Doc” Riddoch at the service for Carla Newman widow of the late Hells Angel David “Clapp” Newman.
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Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum said Thursday that he’s concerned about the public perception created by photos showing a police board member, Harley Chappell, with members of the Hells Angels.
Postmedia revealed this week that Chappell attended a 2018 memorial service for the wife of a founder of the Hells Angels White Rock chapter.
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At the August 2018 event, Chappell posed for several photos with White Rock Hells Angels Douglas (Doc) Riddoch and Brent Milne.
Another ex-member is Chappell’s father, Philip, who left the club in 1992.
On his own Facebook page last year, Harley Chappell posted a birthday tribute to his dad that included an old photo of Philip Chappell wearing his “colours” the vest and the patch indicating membership in the Angels.
Harley Chappell, the elected Chief of the Semiahmoo First Nations, didn’t return phone or text messages Wednesday asking him about the photos. But he issued a statement to Postmedia News via email later Wednesday that said he attended the August 2018 funeral service for Newman because she is “the mother of a childhood friend.”