First Nation Chief Allan Adam Beaten

[Carlito's Way]

Makes my blood boil just seeing this, when will police brutality stop? It's disgusting even more to see some people (especially whites) defend this behavior, when they are also capable of getting their asses beaten by the same police they defend. Unfortunately, police brutality is more common among minorities, but white people are not immune to this behavior, I wish they put their white supremacy aside and fought for the same goals we are all trying to fight here, which is POLICE BRUTALITY

"TORONTO — The police dash cam video shows the Indigenous chief being held by one police officer and tackled to the ground by another, punched in the head and put in a chokehold.
His face is bleeding as he is led in handcuffs to the police cruiser.
The video, submitted to the courts on Thursday and broadcast by many news channels, horrified many Canadians, and added fuel to the already raging debate over systemic racism in police forces across Canada.
While allegations of police abuse against black and Indigenous Canadians have been made for decades, the gruesome death of George Floyd in the United States has caused what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called “an awakening” and spurred large anti-racism marches across the country.

Allan Adam, chief of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in northern Alberta, was stopped by the police in Fort McMurray in March about an expired license plate. After a sometimes heated 12-minute exchange, he was charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest. But many believe the police video shows he was the real victim."

 

[Carlito's Way]

I think American and Canadian police (as well as Latin American police) need some major training because they have no idea how to handle certain situations, its like they are programmed to beat civilians up if they don't listen within 1 second of them talking. They also like coming at you in an aggressive manner, all up in your face and invading your own personal space.

 

[Chris Huiqui]

We must tell the white men that this our continent, fuck racism!, Red Lives Matter.

 

[Leyva]

I saw the video and I didn't see the chief being aggressive. I hope he gets some justice and the Canadian government starts protecting them.

 

[SavannahCatGiannis]

The worst of it is the cop stopped the guy for an expired license plate.

All DMVs in Canada have been closed due to COVID-19, so nobody can get anything renewed right now, and the government has said that you don't have to renew your license plate, driver's license, or MVI this year due to the pandemic. Anything that expires this year, you have up to a year from the expiry date to renew it, for example, my license plate expired in April, so I have until April 2021 to renew it, and my MVI expires in August, so I have until August 2021 to renew that... my driver's license expires in 2022, so I'm good there.

So, they had a different reason to mess with him, they just used the expired plate as an excuse.

 

[Carlito's Way]

The worst of it is the cop stopped the guy for an expired license plate.

All DMVs in Canada have been closed due to COVID-19, so nobody can get anything renewed right now, and the government has said that you don't have to renew your license plate, driver's license, or MVI this year due to the pandemic. Anything that expires this year, you have up to a year from the expiry date to renew it, for example, my license plate expired in April, so I have until April 2021 to renew it, and my MVI expires in August, so I have until August 2021 to renew that... my driver's license expires in 2022, so I'm good there.

So, they had a different reason to mess with him, they just used the expired plate as an excuse.

thats sad, has the government said anything about this case? especially now with the whole protest against police brutality around the world

 

[Carlito's Way]

We must tell the white men that this our continent, fuck racism!, Red Lives Matter.

you mean brown lives matter lol i dont like the term red
still dont know why euros called natives red, when euros turn red in the sun themselves (majority of them do)
are you native?

 

[SavannahCatGiannis]

thats sad, has the government said anything about this case? especially now with the whole protest against police brutality around the world

Trudeau was pretty pissed and wants an investigation, but I dunno if it's a good idea for the PM to weigh in on this publicly because while, yeah, what the cops did was horrible, a public figure of his stature making a statement may have the unintended side-effect of swaying public opinion and making it harder for there to be a fair trial if it goes that far.

 

[SavannahCatGiannis]

still dont know why euros called natives red

Probably because one of the first people Europeans met were Mi'kmaq, who have higher rates of rosacea than other indigenous populations in the Americas (isolation meaning those genes spread in that population, I guess?). They looked really red in the winter due to that.

I have some Mi'kmaq ancestry myself and my sister has rosacea.

Me, I inherited the Mediterranean skin from the other side of the family, so I look very pale and sickly in the winter. My skin needs sun to look healthy.

 

[Ezio1]

I think American and Canadian police (as well as Latin American police) need some major training because they have no idea how to handle certain situations, its like they are programmed to beat civilians up if they don't listen within 1 second of them talking. They also like coming at you in an aggressive manner, all up in your face and invading your own personal space.

I second that. Agreed.