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Almost two and a half years after the incident, the RCMP issued an apology to Dziekański's mother, Zofia Cisowski. Gary Bass, the RCMP deputy commissioner of the Pacific region formally apologized during a news conference at the Vancouver International Airport on April 1, 2010.
The RCMP Superintendent held a press conference asking "residents to put their guns away". [7] The Federation said that the RCMP media release "made it appear that Boushie's killing was justified" [27] by the "right to defend" and that the way the RCMP shared information about the incident had fuelled racial tensions in Saskatchewan. [23]
For their part, the RCMP alleged that criminal elements were involved in the protest and that they were launching an investigation into it. [9] Holland released a statement after the IIO's December 2022 press release, stating that the IIO's decision affirmed what she and her family already knew about the wrongness of the RCMP officers' actions. [2]
A knife-wielding man was shot dead on Christmas Eve in Worcestershire after a standoff with armed officers, West Mercia Police say. The force say officers were called by paramedics to an address ...
President-elect Trump on Wednesday used a lengthy Christmas Day social media post to tell the 37 people who had their death sentences commuted by President Biden to “go to hell.” “Also, to ...
A wanted man who climbed onto a roof and threw bricks and tiles at police officers has been jailed for nine years and 10 months. Kyle Ferguson, 30, caused a five-hour standoff after he went on top ...
RCMP officers during the Estevan Riot. Until 1920, the RCMP's forerunner, the Royal North-West Mounted Police, operated only in Western Canada and the North.The new organization was created by an amalgamation with the Dominion Police, giving the RCMP a national security mandate as a departure from its earlier role as a frontier police force.
On October 21, 2011, the Commissioner of the RCMP, William J. S. Elliott, announced that the RCMP officers would have a new weapon at their disposition, the C8 Rifle. One of the main conclusions from the Fatality Inquiry that led to this result was the fact that the officers who were involved in the events did not have the appropriate weapon to ...