Shawn Harrison has been demoted to sergeant but can return to his rank of staff sergeant after 18 months if his disciplinary record remains unblemished. 

The family of an Indigenous man found dead in a river wants a Thunder Bay, Ont., police officer at the centre of a disciplinary hearing to be fired.

In a scathing report released Monday, the Office of the Independent Police Review Director concluded that several officers involved in investigating the 2015 death of Stacy DeBungee failed to live up to their professional obligations.