The Public Prosecution Service says R-C-M-P officers were protecting themselves and civilians when they fatally shot an Indigenous man last summer.
Rodney Levi, from the Metepenagiag (met-EHH’-peh-nah-ghee-ah) First Nation, was shot and killed on June 12th after police responded to a complaint about a disturbance in a home in Sunny Corner.
The prosecution service says, while the decision does not diminish the tragedy of the event, a reviw by a Quebec police agency said it is obvious officers on the scene believed Levi was using force against them.
There’s no comment from the Levi family on this latest news other than they are considering their legal options.
The families of the victims of Mathew Raymond had the opportunity to read victim impact statements to a judge yesterday in Fredericton.,
The 50 yearold Raymond was found not criminally responsible of the murders of Donnie Robichaud, Bobbie Lee Wright, Sara Burns and Robb Costello last month.
A disposition hearing gives family members a chance to describe how they have been affected.
Justice Larry Landry said Raymond will be held at the Restigouche Hospital Centre where he will continue to receive treatment for his schizophrenia. and there will be another disposition hearing in front of a review board within 90 days…but that board won’t have the power to release him…just make recommendations.
New Brunswick First Nations have announced they’re pulling out of the Higgs Government’s proposed “all nations working group”.
The province had announced the working group earlier this month to address recommendations made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
The Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Wul-ah’-stook-kway) First Nations announced they were withdrawing, calling it a political smokescreen created by the government. The withdrawl comes after the new Aboriginal Affairs Minister, Arlene Dunn, enraged first nations leaders last week when she amended an opposition liberal motion in the house removing language in the bill calling for public inquiry into systemic racism.
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A 40-year-old man accused of burning down a Bar in Bouctouche is also charged now with threatening to set another person’s home on fire…and animal neglect.
The Times and Transcript reports Ricky Joseph Belliveau of Richibucto appeared in court yesterday on an arson charge for a fire that destroyed the Taverne à Joe in Bouctouche in early Noevember. However, he’s also facing several other charges for allegedly threatening to burn down a woman’s mobile home in Sainte-Marie-de-Kent last year and for animal cruelty and neglecting dogs in his care.
Belliveau’s case has now been pushed back to January 13th while he awaits the appointment of a legal aid lawyer.