WINNIPEG-New details released Thursday in the case of a murdered Winnipeg girl who had been missing, sparked a protest Friday.
The gathering caused a disruption to traffic around the supper hour as it weaved through downtown.
The group started at the police headquarters on Princess Street then made its way downtown to the Forks around 6 p.m.
They were protesting the lack of a national inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Renewed calls were sparked by the death of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine.
Her body was found in the Red River in August after having been missing.
Thursday, the Winnipeg Police Service admitted two of its members had talked to her while she was reported missing but she wasn’t taken into custody. There’s an internal review underway. “At some point, consequences have to be handed down because people need to reprimanded for the very grave mistakes and errors they’re making, because, you know what? Our children are being murdered and pulled out of rivers, this shouldn’t have happened, this was preventable,” said one of the protest’s organizers, Chelsea Cardinal.
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