Case Colten Boushie: the RCMP investigation into the comments of one of its agents on Facebook

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Thursday, February 15, 2018 18:32

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OTTAWA – The royal Canadian mounted police (RCMP) has launched an inquiry into hate speech that would have kept one of his agents on a group Facebook private employees of the police force.

The comments are designed Colten Boushie, the young aboriginal girl of 22 years shot and killed in August 2016, in Saskatchewan, when he was on the ground the farmer, Gerald Stanley. The latter has been acquitted a few days ago.

“It is a pity that the young man died, but he got what he deserved”, one can read in the publication revealed on Thursday by the APTN.

The message, in which the officer of the RCMP is shocked by the racial dimension of the case Boushie, has since been deleted. APTN has kept secret the identity of the police officer, but has shared a screen capture of the message.

“How many of us are working on or near reservations and are exasperated because the use of the argument that racial back every time someone is caught breaking the law?” continued the agent in its publication.

At a press conference in Saskatchewan, the public Safety minister Ralph Goodale has confirmed that an investigation was ongoing and that there would be consequences. “Obviously, these comments are appalling and unacceptable”, he said, according to remarks reported by several media.

“This contradicts everything that the RCMP stands for,” said Mr. Goodale.