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Video captures Winnipeg police officer threatening arrest, swearing at mother (www.aptnnews.ca)
submitted 5 months ago by TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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A mother in Winnipeg says a confrontation with police has left her and her family shaken.

Charity Tom, who is Sayisi Dene, says on May 21 at around 4:00 a.m., she awoke to the sound of banging on her door. It was the Winnipeg police.

An officer told her they received a call about an unsupervised child roaming outside. Tom told officers they had the wrong house and that her children were sleeping inside.

Tom said a few minutes later, police officers knocked again and then entered the house.

Now multiple police are entering the house. One is struggling with Tom.

Charity: What’s the badge number?

Police: Get up. What’s your name?

Charity: Charity

Police: You wanna get the cuffs?

Charity: No, I just told you

Police: So then stop acting like a c*nt

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[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For anyone that doesn't really know, police terrorize aboriginals. Like literally terrorize them. Some of the worst atrocities are committed by police against them.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Saskatoon freezing deaths

The Saskatoon freezing deaths involved Indigenous Canadians in and immediately outside Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in the 1990s and early 2000s, and are suspected of being linked to actions by the members of the Saskatoon Police Service. The police officers would arrest Indigenous people, who were usually male, for alleged drunkenness and/or disorderly behaviour, sometimes without cause.[2] The officers would then drive them to the outskirts of the city at night in the winter, and abandon them, leaving them stranded in sub-zero temperatures.[3]

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 months ago

That shit started in the 70's. I know because I was living there and knew someone it happened to (he lived).

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Man that is so fucked, though I'm not at all surprised that I never heard about it considering how they try to cover that shit up. Thank you for sharing that.