He was, police have now admitted, physically abused by officers once inside the Prince George detachment. That abuse, the RCMP now acknowledges, went unaddressed due to problems with internal investigations and co-operation with external investigations over the years.
However, none of the reports into the incident - the most recent being last week s Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP probe of the incident - ties Willey s death to the conduct of police.
The civil law suit now underway by the Willey family seeks to connect the two.
The RCMP s legal position denies all of the allegations suggesting Willey s death was: a result of their use of conducted energy weapons (CEWs or Tasers) on him; the pulling and dragging of his restrained body through parts of the detachment, including a fall out of the arrest vehicle; the use of a hog-tie leg restraint device; or any other action on their part.
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THE anonymous, but mega-corporately sponsored International Women’s Day website has announced that its innocuous campaign theme for 2021 is “Choose to Challenge,” with the explanation that “a challenged world is an alert world. And from challenge comes change.”
A bold, although somewhat meaningless statement, and, as expected, it makes an appeal to women as individuals, since as it says: “We’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions all day, every day.
“We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women’s achievements.”
True, but this is a banal reinforcement of corporately acceptable “choice feminism.”