Gerald Stanley Not Guilty
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You mean, trying someone who has shot another person dead is unfair? Maybe the cops and Crown should just accept whatever story he tells?
Are you really that thick in the f**king head? The story he tells speaks for itself, he and his son were on HIS property mending a gate, which is an activity that 'speaks' for itself. The 'victim' was trespassing in a drunken, disorderly and threatening fashion. What part of that do you lack the brains to understand? :lol:
Ah, so drunken trespassing justifies killing. Good to know.
As far as "in a threatening fashion," how would that be known without a trial?
I find your clear contempt of the jury system. . . interesting. Though I'll admit your apparent system of white = innocent, Native = guilty is certainly more efficient.
Cut the f**king bull shit, Bones. I've said from the outset it's a behavioural issue, not an ethnical one. Are you too stupid to savvy that?
Not even a thought to mention that the victim shouldn't have been there in the first place trying to steal a vehicle and making a motion of pointing a weapon (if it is true) at the accused.
I hope there is a minority on the jury doesn't have to be a First Canadian though I don't believe a jury has to have a mandatory FN because of reconciliation.
Do you think the mindset would change, almost the same circumstances, but not the same action/reaction have to read more on circumstances before making up my mind on guilt or innocence
“This case is about a killing that never should have happened,” Nadel told the trial,
No shit. Don't try stealing people's stuff and you won't get shot.
Also if the police had been doing their job propoerly the owner would not have had to protect his own property.
No shit. Don't try stealing people's stuff and you won't get shot.
Also if the police had been doing their job propoerly the owner would not have had to protect his own property.
The Italians are going to change the law, basically allowing you to defend yourself and your stuff,
aftr several stupid cases just like this.
This should never go to trail, never mind being charged.
If you are invading another's property, your own rights should be suspended.
Someone should pull out the crime statistics for the area, to see
if crimes have gone down since this happened.
'This is not over,' says Colten Boushie's mom after arrests at Regina protest camp
As the embers on the sacred fire at a protest camp slowly died early Monday evening, controversy about police-government-Indigenous relations continued to burn followings arrests in the face of a passive but defiant last stand.
“Where else can people have a peaceful protest? I think that there’s a freedom of speech,” Heather Bear, vice-chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, said in an interview Monday after hearing of Regina police officers moving in on the Justice For Our Stolen Children camp outside the Saskatchewan Legislative Building, taking people into custody, and seeking the removal of the remaining teepee and sacred fire.
“You know what, they’re not being heard anywhere else,” she added.
But police Chief Evan Bray defended the “cautious approach” taken by the Regina Police Service (RPS) to ensure people could exercise their charter rights. However, at some point, the Provincial Capital Commission (PCC) “has lawful authority of that land” and permits protest, but not camping.
He said the government and PCC were involved in the request to remove the teepee “There was some passive resistance,” he said in an interview. “People were laying down in the teepee refusing to move. At that time, there were some arrests made for obstruction. At the end of the day, I’m not jumping up and down that this is what it’s come to, but in some ways I don’t know if we could have avoided it.”
It was no balm to the sting felt by the protestors.
“This is really a sad day and this is not over. We’re just cutting a path for the next generation. Next generation is going to be more educated, more powerful. And we’re just going to keep going, we’re going to keep setting up our camps, we’re going to keep lighting our fires. We will not stop. I’m not going to stop until change is made in the court rooms and the government,” said Debbie Baptiste, the mother of Colten Boushie.
More than a dozen Regina police officers arrived around 2 p.m. Monday to evict the remaining protestors and clear the teepee.
In the face of a tense showdown that culminated in arrests — although no charges — the police officers, led by Supt. Darcy Koch, agreed to allow the fire to run its life cycle. This extended the protest into the early evening, with an elder called in to give a final blessing to the dying flame as drums beat and songs were sung. Police stood by and watched.
Defiant to the end, protestors declined to take down the teepee, leaving the task to PCC workers who had it dismantled around 7:30 p.m. under instruction provided by one of the campers.
It finished far quieter than it began.
Among the six protestors arrested earlier in the afternoon was Richelle Dubois, a camp organizer whose 14-year-old son Haven Dubois was found dead in a shallow creek in east Regina in May 2015 (his death was later deemed an accident, but Dubois believes the investigation was shoddy). “Come and get me. I’m right here by the sacred fire where I’ve been sitting for 111 days,” Dubois yelled before two officers dragged her from the teepee. She lay down, refusing to cooperate with officers trying to help her to her feet.
Five other protesters, who remained in the teepee with the fire burning, were also taken into custody. As they were dragged away one by one, one young man was seen walking around the teepee with an eagle feather.
One yelled, “I love my country. Is this how you want Canada Day celebrated?”
Another began to beat a drum. And shortly after that, police agreed to allow the fire to extinguish naturally.
“We just watched the most important people in camp be hauled away, some of them violently,” said Robyn Pitawanakwat. “We have seen more police response to clear us out of here, to clear out a peaceful protest, in order for the provincial government to have their capitalist agenda met. … That is devastating to watch over and over again, where Indigenous lives are put as far behind any piece of property as possible,”
Bear, who wasn’t present at the camp, called the eviction “sacrilegious. It’s just like us kicking you out of your church. It’s disrespectful. Like I say, they weren’t hurting anyone they were just trying to bring awareness.”
But Bray said a lot of efforts — including those by him personally attending the camp and discussing the protest — were put into a peaceful resolution. He insisted police took no side in the dispute. “I’ve had people on both sides of this mad at me,” he said.
The protest camp was set up partially in response to the acquittal in the cases of the deaths of Boushie and Tina Fontaine. The majority of the tents and remnants of camp life had been torn down and carted away Friday morning by provincial workers, acting on orders for the PCC. Police were called in to keep the peace.
On Friday, the province agreed to allow the teepee containing the fire to stay until Sunday at noon — but the deadline came and went, leading to Monday’s joint operation between police, the PCC and the Wascana Centre Authority.
Bray said the PCC’s stance hadn’t changed that protest is allowed, but camps aren’t. “This has been going on for over three months and it just didn’t make sense to us to wait until the darkness of night or do something that would be seen as underhanded. Really, to me. this is on the up and up.”
In an emailed statement Friday morning, the provincial government said it “respects everyone’s right to peaceful protest. While protests at the Saskatchewan Legislature are permitted, they must follow the Provincial Capital Commission (PCC) guidelines.”
The statement went on to say that the act prohibits overnight camping, erecting tents or structures, burning wood or combustibles and erecting signage in the park.
Attorney General Don Morgan reiterated those points in speaking with reporters Monday.
He said he “didn’t participate in the decision” to move in on the camp Monday.
“I don’t think you’ll ever find a place or time that was really desirable, so I think they made the decision that they were going ahead with it,” he said.
Does this only happen in Canada a mother of an accidental killed gangster is the face of a human rights movement?
As the embers on the sacred fire at a protest camp slowly died early Monday evening, controversy about police-government-Indigenous relations continued to burn followings arrests in the face of a passive but defiant last stand.
“Where else can people have a peaceful protest? I think that there’s a freedom of speech,” Heather Bear, vice-chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, said in an interview Monday after hearing of Regina police officers moving in on the Justice For Our Stolen Children camp outside the Saskatchewan Legislative Building, taking people into custody, and seeking the removal of the remaining teepee and sacred fire.
“You know what, they’re not being heard anywhere else,” she added.
But police Chief Evan Bray defended the “cautious approach” taken by the Regina Police Service (RPS) to ensure people could exercise their charter rights. However, at some point, the Provincial Capital Commission (PCC) “has lawful authority of that land” and permits protest, but not camping.
He said the government and PCC were involved in the request to remove the teepee “There was some passive resistance,” he said in an interview. “People were laying down in the teepee refusing to move. At that time, there were some arrests made for obstruction. At the end of the day, I’m not jumping up and down that this is what it’s come to, but in some ways I don’t know if we could have avoided it.”
It was no balm to the sting felt by the protestors.
“This is really a sad day and this is not over. We’re just cutting a path for the next generation. Next generation is going to be more educated, more powerful. And we’re just going to keep going, we’re going to keep setting up our camps, we’re going to keep lighting our fires. We will not stop. I’m not going to stop until change is made in the court rooms and the government,” said Debbie Baptiste, the mother of Colten Boushie.
More than a dozen Regina police officers arrived around 2 p.m. Monday to evict the remaining protestors and clear the teepee.
In the face of a tense showdown that culminated in arrests — although no charges — the police officers, led by Supt. Darcy Koch, agreed to allow the fire to run its life cycle. This extended the protest into the early evening, with an elder called in to give a final blessing to the dying flame as drums beat and songs were sung. Police stood by and watched.
Defiant to the end, protestors declined to take down the teepee, leaving the task to PCC workers who had it dismantled around 7:30 p.m. under instruction provided by one of the campers.
It finished far quieter than it began.
Among the six protestors arrested earlier in the afternoon was Richelle Dubois, a camp organizer whose 14-year-old son Haven Dubois was found dead in a shallow creek in east Regina in May 2015 (his death was later deemed an accident, but Dubois believes the investigation was shoddy). “Come and get me. I’m right here by the sacred fire where I’ve been sitting for 111 days,” Dubois yelled before two officers dragged her from the teepee. She lay down, refusing to cooperate with officers trying to help her to her feet.
Five other protesters, who remained in the teepee with the fire burning, were also taken into custody. As they were dragged away one by one, one young man was seen walking around the teepee with an eagle feather.
One yelled, “I love my country. Is this how you want Canada Day celebrated?”
Another began to beat a drum. And shortly after that, police agreed to allow the fire to extinguish naturally.
“We just watched the most important people in camp be hauled away, some of them violently,” said Robyn Pitawanakwat. “We have seen more police response to clear us out of here, to clear out a peaceful protest, in order for the provincial government to have their capitalist agenda met. … That is devastating to watch over and over again, where Indigenous lives are put as far behind any piece of property as possible,”
Bear, who wasn’t present at the camp, called the eviction “sacrilegious. It’s just like us kicking you out of your church. It’s disrespectful. Like I say, they weren’t hurting anyone they were just trying to bring awareness.”
But Bray said a lot of efforts — including those by him personally attending the camp and discussing the protest — were put into a peaceful resolution. He insisted police took no side in the dispute. “I’ve had people on both sides of this mad at me,” he said.
The protest camp was set up partially in response to the acquittal in the cases of the deaths of Boushie and Tina Fontaine. The majority of the tents and remnants of camp life had been torn down and carted away Friday morning by provincial workers, acting on orders for the PCC. Police were called in to keep the peace.
On Friday, the province agreed to allow the teepee containing the fire to stay until Sunday at noon — but the deadline came and went, leading to Monday’s joint operation between police, the PCC and the Wascana Centre Authority.
Bray said the PCC’s stance hadn’t changed that protest is allowed, but camps aren’t. “This has been going on for over three months and it just didn’t make sense to us to wait until the darkness of night or do something that would be seen as underhanded. Really, to me. this is on the up and up.”
In an emailed statement Friday morning, the provincial government said it “respects everyone’s right to peaceful protest. While protests at the Saskatchewan Legislature are permitted, they must follow the Provincial Capital Commission (PCC) guidelines.”
The statement went on to say that the act prohibits overnight camping, erecting tents or structures, burning wood or combustibles and erecting signage in the park.
Attorney General Don Morgan reiterated those points in speaking with reporters Monday.
He said he “didn’t participate in the decision” to move in on the camp Monday.
“I don’t think you’ll ever find a place or time that was really desirable, so I think they made the decision that they were going ahead with it,” he said.
Does this only happen in Canada a mother of an accidental killed gangster is the face of a human rights movement?
I'm going to light a sacred fire in my chimera tonight and contemplate the continuing whinging we keep hearing from less than 5% of the population.