NATIVE WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF CANADA CALLS ON POLICE & POLITICIANS TO TAKE THREE IMMEDIATE STEPS TO END POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020
The recent police killings of Chantel Moore and Rodney Levi in New Brunswick, and the battering of Athabasca ChipewyanChief Allan Adam by RCMP officers in Alberta, have brought the issue to national attention.
Key Points:
- The recent police killings of Chantel Moore and Rodney Levi in New Brunswick, and the battering of Athabasca ChipewyanChief Allan Adam by RCMP officers in Alberta, have brought the issue to national attention.
- The national organization is asking police and politicians to use this moment to implement measures that will prevent more lives from being lost.
- NWAC President Lorraine Whitman has arranged to meet in July with RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki.
- NWAC is also asking the RCMP and other Canadian police forces to join NWAC in forming a task force that will rewrite the relationship between police and Indigenous women.