At the floe edge near the community of about 900 people, the men set out on a small aluminum boat after spotting and shooting the walrus. As the men drew close enough to haul it up, the walrus struck the boat with its tusks and tried to climb on board.
The lawyer for an RCMP officer acquitted this week in Nunavut on charges of assault calls the court's decision "a just result," but says his client never should have been charged in the first place.
Nunavut Court Justice Susan Charlesworth gave her decision Monday in the case of Cpl. Ian Crowe, who was charged in connection to a 2020 incident in Sanirajak.
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