![]() Officers were not familiar with the geography of the area. The force did not put a scene commander in charge, so the response was disorganized. Another made questionable decisions because his son was in the line of fire. One officer, who had been drinking rum before the shooting started, made the unwise decision to report for work in spite of his possible intoxication. After he snapped and finally started killing, the poor Mounties on the spot “had received very little training in exercising command and control during a critical incident response.” For years, the RCMP ignored reports about the threat posed by the perpetrator, a wealthy white man with a track record of violence - the result of “implicit bias” on the part of officers. The force’s failures revealed by the inquiry are wide-ranging and profound. Now, the government has been officially advised of those facts, in the form of a report from the official inquiry. ![]() ![]() The RCMP failure in Portapique was already obvious to everyone in Nova Scotia, because they observed it in real time. The government of Justin Trudeau has the opportunity and responsibility to give meaning to the deaths of the 22 victims, and the terrible suffering of their loved ones, by making sure the people of Portapique - and similar communities across Canada - are served by a minimally competent police force, which means a different police force. As a Nova Scotian, I do not trust the RCMP to keep my loved ones and neighbours safe, and want them out of my province, replaced by an accountable force with local roots. He killed three more people that morning, before the Mounties finally gunned him down at a gas station outside Halifax, bringing his total number of victims to 22 people, including an expectant mother.įor many hours, he roamed far and wide, murdering with impunity while the Royal Canadian Mounted Police incompetently tried and failed to stop him. Twelve hours after the first frantic 911 call came from Portapique on the night of April 18, 2020, the deranged killer in a replica RCMP vehicle drove past my mother’s street, 40 kilometres away in Truro.
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