Canada - Colton Boushie, 22, shot to death, Saskatchewan Aug 26 2016

It's a heartbreaking case. The verdict showcases how real racism is against Canada's First Nations people. That jury set a very dangerous precedent.
 
This case happened very close to where i live, and everyone was talking about it. There were some very strong and different opinions. Sad case.
 
A Saskatchewan farmer acquitted in the fatal shooting of a young Indigenous man is giving up his guns and has been ordered to pay a $3,000 fine after pleading guilty to unsafe storage of an unrestricted firearm.

Gerald Stanley pleaded guilty Monday in North Battleford provincial court to the charge that involved six rifles and shotguns. The Crown said none of them had trigger locks. The Crown dropped a second count of unsafe storage of a restricted handgun.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...lten-boushie-pleads-guilty-to-gun-charge.html

Family and supporters of a young Indigenous man shot and killed on a Saskatchewan farm used the international stage of the United Nations Tuesday to advocate for change in the Canadian criminal justice system.

A side event at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York focused on the death of 22-year-old Colten Boushie and his family’s experience with police and the courts.

Farmer Gerald Stanley was acquitted in Boushie’s August 2016 death earlier this year, sparking rallies and outrage across the country.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/04/17/family-of-colten-boushie-speaks-at-un-forum.html
 
FWIW

I call BS on the shooters version of the events that supposedly transpired

:moo:

:cow:

:canada:
 
This case divided a country. In Saskatchewan this case was the equivilant of the o.j. Simpson trial in the u.s. everyone was hating on everyone. It was disgusting. Tho important details about both main players activities prior to the shootings have been glossed over.

As someone who lived in rural sask, I can definately say that the rcmp have a very slow response time (30+minutes) as their jurisdictions are quite large.
 

The RCMP braced for backlash across rural Saskatchewan and kept a close eye on Indigenous groups after the not-guilty verdict for a farmer charged in the death of Colten Boushie, emails show.

The former top Mountie in the province also warned officers to watch their opinions, and police carefully watched and weighed in on testimony in the highly charged murder trial that exposed racial divides.

This week marks seven years since Boushie, a 22-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, was shot and killed on in a rural area near the town of Biggar, about 95 kilometres west of Saskatoon.
 

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