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posted ago by RandomNumber ago by RandomNumber +19 / -0

Brian Giesbrecht: The RCMP Failed Canadians at Kamloops

https://archive.li/KEfIN#selection-909.0-909.55

... When it was announced that “remains” had been found of 215 former Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) students, the local RCMP did their duty and immediately began to investigate. Indigenous leaders had claimed that the school grounds should be considered a major crime scene, and the RCMP is mandated in most parts of B.C. to investigate all major crimes. The investigation would normally have included the securing of the school grounds to prevent evidence tampering, the interviewing of all people connected to the claim, and prompt investigation of the alleged crimes.

One of the important people to be interviewed was Sarah Beaulieu. She had done the ground penetrating radar (GPR) work and written the report that gave rise to the claim. The RCMP quite properly began to interview Beaulieu. However, for reasons that remain unclear to this day, the RCMP aborted their attempts to interview her further, and shut down their entire investigation immediately after receiving orders to do so from persons unknown. This new policy—breathtaking in its recklessness—was then applied to all of the other indigenous communities that made copycat claims. ...

Amidst noises that Trudeau now wants to criminalize "denialism" of this "indigenous genocide", the whole thing gets sketchier and sketchier.