Police Death

• Sask. police officers’ mental health concerns heightened after death of Ontario officer

  Ontario Provincial Police officer Greg Pierzchala is the fifth officer in Canada to be killed in the line of duty since September.

  Canada

  Dec 28, 2022
  
• Thunder Bay police chief tells custody deaths inquest that force lacked compassion

  Dan Taddeo is testifying at the joint coroner’s inquest into the 2014 death of Donald Mamakwa and the 2017 death of Roland McKay.

  Crime

  Nov 2, 2022
  
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• Calgary teen testifies at murder trial in hit-and-run death of Sgt. Andrew Harnett

  Sgt. Andrew Harnett of the Calgary Police Service died in hospital on Dec. 31, 2020, after being dragged by a fleeing SUV and falling into the path of an oncoming car.

  Crime

  Sep 27, 2022
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• ‘We want answers,’ says family of Ojibwa man who died after beanbag gun shooting

  Chris Amyotte, a 42-year-old Ojibwa father from Winnipeg, died on Aug. 22 in what police initially described as an "interaction" with a man behaving "erratically."

  Crime

  Sep 1, 2022
• Man accused of killing Saskatchewan RCMP officer ordered to stand trial on murder charge

  A man accused of killing a Saskatchewan RCMP officer during a traffic stop has been ordered to stand trial for first-degree murder.

  Crime

  Jul 21, 2022
• N.B. coroner’s inquest shown video of fatal RCMP shooting of First Nations man

  Rodney Levi, who was from the Metepenagiag First Nation, was shot dead by the RCMP on the evening of June 12, 2020.

  Canada

  Sep 30, 2021
• Texas police officers indicted in Black man’s 2019 death while filming TV show

  The charges are the first directly tied to the death of Javier Ambler, a Black man whose traffic stop was caught on camera by the real-time police TV series "Live PD."

  World

  Mar 31, 2021
• New trial ordered for special constables convicted in jail cell death of Corey Rogers

  Three judges unanimously ruled that the trial judge erred in his instruction to a jury, adding that their full written reasons will be provided at a later date.

  Crime

  Jan 28, 2021
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• Ontario man sees parallels between brother’s in-custody death and that of Myles Gray

  Myles Gray and Soleiman Faqiri both died after altercations with law enforcement. No one was charged in either case.

  Crime

  Dec 20, 2020
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• Man died in Onion Lake holding cell, RCMP say

  A man died Saturday while in police custody in Onion Lake.

  Canada

  Oct 13, 2019