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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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