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"A Mountie believes he saw Gabriel Wortman’s fake police car driving
through Elmsdale the day before the Dartmouth denturist began a
killing spree that left 22 people dead. Const. Wayne Tingley was off
duty when he spotted the replica on Friday, April 17, 2020. He
realized it was likely the fake police cruiser used by the killer
after seeing video obtained by CBC of Wortman in the car. “I watched
the video and it showed much more of the vehicle than in the photo
that has been released,” Tingley said in an April 23, 2020, statement
made public Tuesday by the Mass Casualty Commission. “The video showed
that the suspect vehicle had a black push bumper on the front of the
vehicle and when the vehicle drove off no licence plate was observed.”
This is Google's cache of https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/news/mountie-spotted-fake-police-car-one-day-before-ns-mass-shooting-i-thought-this-was-strange-100745860/. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 22 Sep 2022 00:41:07 GMT.
Mountie spotted fake police car one day before N.S. mass shooting: ‘I thought this was strange’
Gabriel Wortman is spotted on video surveillance changing his clothes in Millbrook on April 19, 2020.
A Mountie believes he saw Gabriel Wortman’s fake police car driving through Elmsdale the day before the Dartmouth denturist began a killing spree that left 22 people dead.
Const. Wayne Tingley was off duty when he spotted the replica on Friday, April 17, 2020. He realized it was likely the fake police cruiser used by the killer after seeing video obtained by CBC of Wortman in the car.
“I watched the video and it showed much more of the vehicle than in the photo that has been released,” Tingley said in an April 23, 2020, statement made public Tuesday by the Mass Casualty Commission.
“The video showed that the suspect vehicle had a black push bumper on
the front of the vehicle and when the vehicle drove off no licence
plate was observed.”
Gabriel
Wortman's fake police with the front push bar traveling south on
Highway 4, as captured by a surveillance camera while passing the
Wentworth Market at 9:29:50 a.m. on April 19, 2020. - Mass Casualty
Commission
Tingley recalled “seeing a new looking RCMP police vehicle with a black push bumper on the front and no licence plate on the back of the vehicle in Elmsdale on Friday April 17, 2020.”
Tingley, of the Sheet Harbour detachment, was driving his own vehicle on Highway 214 through Elmsdale.
“As I approached the intersection of hwy 214 and hwy 2, I entered the wrong lane,” said the Mountie.
“I entered the lane to drive through the intersection which is the usual way I go to travel to work. The light was red. I needed to be in the right turning lane to turn towards Enfield.”
He was heading for Payzant’s Home Hardware in Enfield.
“At approximately noon hour I checked over my shoulder to change lanes and observed a white fully marked RCMP police vehicle drive past me in the right turning lane,” Tingley said.
'The first thing I noticed'
“The first thing I noticed was it had a black push bumper on the front.”
The car was “very clean and appeared to be new,” he said.
It stopped before turning right.
Tingley couldn’t remember the call number on the car. “But I did see a B.”
The killer’s replica had the number 28B11 behind the rear passenger window.
The
RCMP tweeted this photo the morning of April 19, alerting the public to
the fake police vehicle that they believed the Nova Scotia mass shooter
was driving. - RCMP on Twitter
The car Tingley spotted that day did not have a rear licence plate.
“I thought this was strange but assumed the Enfield detachment may have gotten a new vehicle,” he said.
“I did not see the driver or get a good look at all to be able to provide a description.”
Tingley switched lanes and turned right on to the highway toward Enfield.
'In front of me'
“The police vehicle was in front of me. I again observed this police vehicle did not have a licence plate.”
Tingley pulled into a Shell station for fuel, then continued on toward Enfield. “I did not encounter the police vehicle again.”
On April 19, 2020, the killer’s common-law spouse, Lisa Banfield, told investigators that Wortman did not drive the decommissioned replica RCMP cruiser around, as it was not licensed or registered.
But several civilians have come forward reporting that they, too, believe they saw Wortman driving his fake police car before the murders. Mounties have said they were not able to confirm those reports.
Investigators were not able to confirm Tingley's sighting, either, said Cpl. Chris Marshall, who speaks for the RCMP.
"Any time we got one of those statements ... it was run down as far as we could chase it down to try to collect the information," Marshall said Tuesday. "But in a lot of cases the surveillance cameras ... were just written over by the time we would have gone to collect the video."
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Public needs to 'start questioning’ police for identification, former chief says
A retired police chief says Nova Scotians should have no qualms about questioning the identity of people presenting themselves as police officers.
“The public, I hate to throw it back at them, but they need to start questioning that, show me your badge, show me your ID, calling a dispatch centre and saying, do you have an officer Smith that works for you and is he working today or is she working today and follow it up,” Julia Cecchetto said Wednesday during a roundtable discussion on police paraphernalia and police impersonation.
“If any police officer doesn’t accept that you won’t talk to them until that kind of background work is done, that’s a problem with the police officer and you should actually let the administration know so that (they) can deal with it,” said Cecchetto, who retired in October after serving four years as the police chief of the Kentville Police Force, the first female police chief in Nova Scotia’s history.
“The public (often) just accepts when somebody says, ‘I’m a police officer,’ and we (police) tend to be assertive people by nature or we become it over time and so just by presenting ourselves assertively and saying this is who I am, we can do a lot of damage.”
Cecchetto was part of a five-person roundtable discussing the impersonation issue before the Mass Casualty Commission in relation to the April 2020 killing rampage perpetrated by Dartmouth denturist Gabriel Wortman, who for part of his 13-hour reign of terror dressed like an RCMP officer and drove an RCMP replica cruiser.
Cecchetto said Kentville police had put out a post shortly after the April 18 and 19, 2020, killings, saying that all the town’s police officers would be carrying a badge and an a ID card, “and you have the right to ask for it or you have the right to drive to a police station if they are trying to pull you over, call dispatch …”
Cecchetto, who also served as a member of the Halifax Regional Police for 27 years before taking on the Kentville job, said Kentville is a town of 6,500 people.
“That post was viewed and shared over 117,000 times and it has 500 and some comments on it from people legitimately afraid to question police,” she said.
The panel, which included three former police officers, a lawyer from Montreal who works for social justice for the Indigenous population and a professor of criminology at a constituent college of Oxford University in England, were provided cases and media reports of civilians impersonating police officers.
Brian Carter, a retired RCMP officer and a representative of RCMP
Veterans Nova Scotia, answers a question during a public inquiry
roundtable discussion on police paraphernalia and police impersonators
Wednesday in Halifax. -- Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press
“The public trust when someone is impersonating a police officer is just gone,” said Brian Carter, a retired 25-year RCMP officer who has expertise in how to survive armed encounters.
“It takes years to get that back in the community where that occurs,” Carter said. “If it occurred in Lower Sackville, for example, it would take years for police in Lower Sackville, HRM and the RCMP, to get that public trust back because the public would be well aware of it and would be questioning how do we know real cops are real cops. What that does for our justice system is it hampers the ability to do effective policing and keep the public safe.”
Carter said it’s very easy without any equipment to impersonate a police officer just by identifying yourself as one.
“You can charge them if you catch them,” he said, but history shows convictions for crimes don’t often deter others from committing the same crime.
Cecchetto said Kentville has 17 police officers and has the advantage of being a small town where community residents know the police officers.
“Where that gets more difficult is in large agencies, the geography of say, Halifax, and 500 officers and with the RCMP officers transferring out,” she said.
Phil Bailey, who is originally from Truro and spent most of his 40-year police career with Edmonton police, said police impersonation is devastating for the public.
“Police services have to be open and up front in communicating through the media what happened,” Bailey said. “Don’t try to downplay it, but at the same time, educate your officers so that when you are asked for your identification, produce it.”
Meaghan Daniel, the social justice lawyer from Montreal, said by video that she was surprised to learn that impersonating a police officer is not often an elaborate scheme, but “simply a claim in a phone call or in person would be enough to then obtain the power that police have to coerce people into doing things that the regular citizen does not have.”
Krista Smith moderates a roundtable discussion on police paraphernalia
and police impersonators as Phil Bailey, a retired member of the
Edmonton Police Service, displays a challenge coin at the Mass Casualty
Commission public inquiry Wednesday in Halifax. -- Andrew Vaughan/The
Canadian Press
She said people want to rely on the narrative that equates police with security.
“We need that story in order to feel safe,” Daniel said. “Now that we don’t know a real cop from a pretend cop or a police impersonator, we have an ongoing feeling of fear and vulnerability.”
The ongoing breach of trust is a profound loss, she said.
Ian Loader, the British criminology professor, said it might be too much to expect “a large section of the population whose part of their ontological security is believing they live in a society where police can be trusted” to accept that they have to question police officers about their identity.
“It’s a tall ask for a young Indigenous or Black male to actually ask a police officer, I don’t believe you are a police officer, and to do so in such a way that doesn’t inflame that encounter and to make the outcome of that likely worse for them,” Loader said.
The criminologist suggested that sometimes police officers themselves impersonate police.
“If a police officer illegally stops and searches someone, knowing that that stop and search is illegal, are they impersonating a police officer?”
Cecchetto said police impersonation is a source of betrayal.
“I always say 99.9 per cent of police officers are very good people doing the right thing everyday,” Cecchetto said. “When somebody goes out and impersonates and does damage to their reputation, they feel betrayal.”
Phil Bailey, a retired Edmonton police officer, front, speaks at a
roundtable discussion on police paraphernalia and police impersonators
at the public inquiry in Halifax on Wednesday. Commissioners Leanne
Fitch, Michael MacDonald and Kim Stanton, along with moderator Krista
Smith, left to right, listen to the discussion. -- Andrew Vaughan/The
Canadian Press
The discussion began with disparate views of how Canadians might view police and the symbolism, uniforms and gear associated with RCMP and municipal police forces.
“We want to preserve history and pass on a sense of pride that we have to our children, from our service,” Carter said, addressing the importance of retiring officers keeping their uniforms. “The uniform is how we do this. … The uniform is part of us. It’s not like putting on a suit today. Policing is one of the only professions in the world where you put on a uniform, walk out the door to go to work and you know that it might be the last day on earth for you.”
Daniel, married to an Indigenous man and the mother of a four-year-old son, said she hears the pride in police service provided but that the other side of the RCMP symbols and uniforms must be recognized, too.
“These symbols are terrorizing to some, as much as they are celebrated by others," she said. "For others, those symbols are so frightening as to still limit inaction in the face of what they feel is an injustice."
Daniel said the history between the RCMP and Indigenous peoples in Canada is a difficult one. The Indian Act legally appointed RCMP members as truant officers to enforce attendance and return children to residential schools.
For Indigenous people, "RCMP and ohter police are a symbol of genocide, over-incarceration and a symbol of foreign and imposed justice," not a symbol of comfort and the order of society, she said.
“The symbol of policing doesn’t invoke a feeling of safety from
invulnerability to some criminal element but in fact, evokes the
opposite, which is vulnerability. That’s something that we have to take
very seriously in considering access to these symbols and images and how
they make Indigenous, Black and people of colour feel when confronted
with them.”
Risks, benefits of keeping police paraphernalia weighed before N.S. mass shooting inquiry
Gunman in mass shooting wore parts of Mountie uniform, drove replica cruiser
The Mass Casualty Commission is leading the inquiry into the 2020 massacre where 22 people were killed by a gunman wearing parts of a Mountie uniform and driving a replica RCMP cruiser.
Wednesday's discussion involved various perspectives from collectors, academics, lawyers and former officers on police impersonation and paraphernalia.
Phil Bailey, who retired after a career with the Edmonton police, said he has hundreds of police hats, badges and coins from police services across the country.
"It's the pride in the uniform — some of the badges that have been provided to me by families, it's because they wanted the symbol of what their family went through to be recognized," Bailey said.
He added that collections like his preserve history that might be otherwise lost, and have helped him form friendships and connections with officers and civilians around the country.
Useful in emergencies, says retired Mountie
Brian Carter, a retired RCMP officer and past president of the RCMP Veterans' Association in Nova Scotia, said carrying his badge and ID that identify him as a retired Mountie has helped when he's come across a car crash or saw a fight happening and stepped in.
But Julia Cecchetto, the former police chief in Kentville, N.S., who also served with the Halifax Regional Police for decades, said she doesn't think retired officers of any service should have these items.
"Whether it says retired on it or not, the public does not see that. They see a shiny badge," Cecchetto said.
Julia
Cecchetto, a retired police chief in Kentville, N.S., speaks during a
Mass Casualty Commission roundtable on police paraphernalia and
impersonation on April 27, 2022, in Halifax. (CBC)
Cecchetto also said she approves of Nova Scotia's recent trend of having all retired badges encased in a "very large chunk" of plastic so they can't be used.
While all three officers said it was important to keep their dress uniforms so they could wear them for memorial services like Remembrance Day or police funerals, another option was brought forward.
The inquiry heard there are veteran blazers that vary slightly in style from service to service, but often are very expensive. Cecchetto said she would be open to wearing the blazer instead of the dress uniform upon retirement if police agencies footed the bill.
As a former Mountie, Carter said he and most RCMP veterans take special pride in keeping their red serge after retirement because they consider the uniform a symbol of Canadian pride and one that is recognized all over the world.
Brian
MacDonald discovered items later confirmed to have been left by the
gunman behind his welding shop in Debert, N.S., including RCMP-issue
boots from the gunman's uncle and a holster. (Mass Casualty Commission)
But Montreal lawyer Meg Daniel said for many Indigenous people, the RCMP is a symbol of oppression and trauma. She said the force had a role in upholding residential schools, and was formed to track and subjugate Indigenous communities.
The inquiry heard that most cases of impersonation in Canada within the last 25 years have not involved real police paraphernalia; someone confidently claiming to be an officer was often enough.
Gunman got items online or from family
Earlier this week, the inquiry heard more about how the gunman in the Nova Scotia mass shooting created the replica cruiser from a decommissioned RCMP Ford Taurus and gathered other police paraphernalia like uniforms and equipment from either relatives or online.
Carter said it would be "impossible" to prevent police impersonation in Canada, so the remaining option is to cut down the risk as much as possible.
A
photo of the gunman's decommissioned 2017 Ford Taurus that he made into
a replica cruiser and used during the mass shooting on April 18-19,
2020. (Mass Casualty Commission)
"So will taking, for example, the ceremonial uniform of the RCMP away from retired members — will that have any effect on the risk? You could argue … no, because people can make the uniform," Carter said.
But Daniel and Cecchetto both said as mothers, if they lost children in an incident like the mass shooting, no benefits or arguments would outweigh the risks.
"The actual harm is so great, and we know that the harms are more likely to be visited on those people who don't enjoy any of the advantages of those symbols," said Daniel.
Another strategy would be to have members of the public question the credentials of police when they encounter an officer, Cecchetto said, and call the officer's detachment to make sure they're legitimate.
Officers should be trained from the get-go to expect this, she added, and any officers who take offence would be dealt with internally.
Federal government waiting for commission findings
With a new provincial law coming into effect May 12, Nova Scotia will be the only province with legislation making it illegal to possess police gear or badges without authorization.
Commissioners said they will take the entire discussion into consideration as they work toward their final report.
A spokesperson for the federal Justice Department said in an email Wednesday the Criminal Code does not prohibit the sale or possession of police equipment, but it is a crime to use any items to impersonate an officer.
Geneviève Groulx said the federal government is not considering any changes to the law. She added the government "looks forward to reviewing the commission's findings."
With files from Kayla Hounsell
How the N.S. gunman convinced people not to report mock cruiser before mass shooting
Documents show how gunman created replica RCMP cruiser, and who knew about it
New documents released Monday by the commission leading the public inquiry into the April 18 and 19, 2020, shooting rampage detail how gunman Gabriel Wortman created the replica cruiser, gathered other police paraphernalia like uniforms and equipment, and who knew about them.
The records show he spun tales to neighbours, friends, strangers and patients at his denture clinic about how he was using the replica vehicle as a "show car" to honour fallen officers in parades, as a prop in a movie he was making about the apocalypse, and that he was a retired officer who wanted to scare off burglars who might break into his cottages.
The gunman may also have spoken directly with someone at RCMP provincial headquarters in 2019 about the replica cruiser, according to one person interviewed by the commission, but was apparently told such a vehicle would be illegal.
"He wasn't hiding it; I can tell you that," Max Liberatore, a manager at the federal surplus warehouse where the gunman bought his decommissioned RCMP cars, told the Mass Casualty Commission in an interview.
"Of course you don't think he did what he did. That's the last thing you would ever think."
But the officers on the ground in Portapique, N.S., who responded in the first hours of the massacre, those in command positions and 911 dispatchers did not appear to have these details right away. They were left scrambling to understand what witnesses meant by the shooter being in a "police car."
During most of the rampage that started in the small rural community and saw 22 people killed, the 51-year-old denturist drove a decommissioned police vehicle he had bought through a federal government auction site on June 27, 2019, for $10,990.
According to a timeline put together by the commission, the gunman began searching online for police materials in January 2018.
That replica cruiser was one of three decommissioned Ford Taurus cars registered under the gunman's company, Berkshire Broman Corporation. Two were 2013 models and the fully marked replica was a 2017, but did not have a licence plate. A fourth 2013 Taurus was not registered at all, according to the commission's summary.
The remains of the gunman's Portapique, N.S., home and burnt shell of a Ford Taurus is seen in May 2020. (Steve Lawrence/CBC)
When RCMP cars are retired from police service they are stripped of all vinyl decals and equipment at the surplus warehouses before being put up for auction, Liberatore said.
Liberatore told the commission he knew the gunman was adding decals to one of the cars and creating a mock cruiser. When Liberatore asked him why, the gunman said he was planning to honour the three Moncton, N.B., officers who were killed by a gunman in 2014 by featuring them through decals on the hood of the car.
"I said, 'Oh yeah, that's kind of cool,'" Liberatore recalled, and the gunman added he planned to use the vehicle in parades.
The gunman never tried to purchase decals through the surplus warehouse, Liberatore said, and while he talked about the gunman's plans with other coworkers he never passed the information up through the federal government internally, or reported it to RCMP.
Liberatore testified at the inquiry on Monday, where lawyer Tara Miller asked him more about his original statement to police in April 2020. Miller represents relatives of victims Aaron Tuck and Kristen Beaton.
Max Liberatore testifies before the public inquiry into the N.S. mass shooting on April 25, 2022 in Halifax. (CBC)
In the statement, Liberatore recalled a conversation about the replica cruiser where he told the gunman "you can get in that god damn car and drive down the road and pull people over."
"He goes yeah, he goes you can do it pretty quickly, they can pull over for it no problem at all for me," Liberatore recalled the gunman saying.
Miller asked Liberatore whether he was aware it was a crime to impersonate a police officer, and he agreed.
"That didn't raise any concerns with you?" Miller asked.
"I didn't think he was out there pulling people over in the car," Liberatore said.
The inquiry also heard that Liberatore didn't think there was anything unusual about one person buying three or four decommissioned police cars in the span of a few months, which the gunman did, because he's seen people buy 10 or 15 at one time to resell.
A photograph of the gunman's replica RCMP cruiser at his Portapique warehouse, taken December 2019. (Mass Casualty Commission)
Amanda Byrd, commission counsel, said Monday there are federal and provincial laws that make it a crime to impersonate a police officer, or use badges, uniforms or police equipment.
New Nova Scotia legislation, the Police Identity Management Act, is expected to come into effect May 12. Byrd said this prohibits the sale, reproduction or possession of police-issued items by an individual or for someone else.
It also prevents the sale of marked police vehicles, and restricts possession of vehicle decals and police vehicle equipment to "authorized individuals and uses," Byrd said. The act makes it an offence to use or possess police paraphernalia besides some exceptions like films, museums or exhibitions. The act also prohibits the sale or fabrication of police paraphernalia unless the buyer is authorized.
Across Canada former RCMP cars are no longer being sold after being decommissioned, and are instead stored or destroyed while the issue is reviewed, Byrd said.
Mock cruiser seen at dealership
The gunman's story about honouring fallen officers, and specifically those who died in Moncton, was repeated to various people including family members of the gunman's common-law partner, Lisa Banfield.
Although Banfield's siblings and other family members questioned whether the mock cruiser was legal, the gunman assured them he'd checked with a "Crown prosecutor" about strictly using it for parades.
He told people who questioned the legality of the replica that police either knew about the car, or that it didn't matter since he didn't actually drive it.
But some people actually saw the gunman driving the cruiser in the months before the massacre, including Bruce Gilmore, who worked at a Mercedes dealership in Halifax that handled one of the couple's cars.
Gilmore said he saw the gunman drop Banfield off at the dealership around the end of January 2020 in a marked cruiser. When Gilmore asked how he drove it legally, the gunman told him it was "just a hobby" and it was "known" he was doing so.
"I thought, end of story," Gilmore told the commission. "If you've got the green light to do it, it's not my business."
In hindsight, Gilmore said he likely should have called police to report the mock cruiser, but the gunman was a "pretty prominent person" in the Halifax area and "he'd never given me any reason not to believe him."
Gunman may have spoken with RCMP
A few months before Gilmore's sighting, a then-commissionaire at Nova Scotia's RCMP headquarters met the gunman. In a statement to police, Bob Dentremont said the gunman drove up to ask about registering a "mocked up police car," but Dentremont told him he didn't think that was allowed.
The gunman replied he thought that might be the case as the Registry of Motor Vehicles had also told him the same thing, Dentremont said to police.
Dentremont said he dialled someone inside headquarters, who could have been the sergeant major as that was common practice, and handed the gunman the phone.
"Whoever he was talking to at the headquarters told him definitely not; that car cannot be registered as some mocked up police car," Dentremont said, adding the gunman said he wanted to rent the replica cruiser for movies.
The commission documents note the sergeant major retired later in 2019, and a "supplementary report" will come later.
Twenty-two
people died on April 18 and 19. Top row from left: Gina Goulet, Dawn
Gulenchyn, Jolene Oliver, Frank Gulenchyn, Sean McLeod, Alanna Jenkins.
Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi Stevenson,
Heather O'Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from top: Kristen Beaton,
Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg Blair.
Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck. (CBC)
In creating the replica, the gunman had some decals made through a sign shop in Truro, N.S. RCMP have said one of the shop's employees, Peter Griffon, printed the decals without his boss's knowledge.
Griffon was living in Portapique on parole, after serving time for drug offences linked to organized crime. The Parole Board of Canada found he initially lied to RCMP about printing the decals, and it sent him back to prison.
The gunman bought various paraphernalia for the cruiser like a divider, decals, light bar and radar. Some were purchased through Amazon or eBay, a few bought through friends, and others shipped to a friend's address in Maine where the gunman would collect them.
He also bought raw vinyl material that could then be turned into decals, including from a Dartmouth, N.S., business called ND Graphics. Employee Angela Baker later told police she told the gunman he wouldn't be able to drive the car once he made it look like a replica cruiser — he agreed that would be "illegal" and said it was just for show.
RCMP, dispatchers confused by police car description
In the first hour of the mass killing as the gunman shot neighbours in their Portapique homes and burned buildings, multiple witnesses told RCMP officers or 911 dispatch that someone in a marked "police car" was shooting people.
But the first three RCMP officers who walked into the community on April 18, 2020, have testified they never imagined the gunman could have an authentic-looking police cruiser. They thought it was likely an older model that had been stripped of markings.
Staff Sgt. Brian Rehill, RCMP risk manager on duty, also said on a call at 10:32 p.m. that night "they're saying someone in a police car is shooting people and we can't nail it down. But we don't think it's a police car."
A 911 dispatcher working out of the Operational Communications Centre in Truro also told an RCMP officer asking about the police car around 11 p.m. that "we can't still get to the bottom of that."
As the Ford Taurus cars were not registered under the gunman's name, police weren't aware for the first few hours exactly how many he had.
But they did have a record: Const. Nick Dorrington had ticketed the gunman for speeding in February 2020, took a photo of his driver's licence, and noted he was driving an unmarked white 2013 Ford Taurus with a licence plate.
Just after midnight, Dorrington pulled up the gunman's photo and Taurus' licence plate, which he shared with police. But he did not share the name of the company under which the car was registered.
The commission documents said "it is unknown" whether all the details on the speeding ticket were reviewed by RCMP or dispatch staff during the mass shooting.
Photo of mock cruiser shared with police
Police collected more details of the mock cruiser in the early morning hours of April 19 from Banfield and Andrew MacDonald, who had been shot by the gunman but survived. One of Banfield's sisters then shared a photo of the cruiser, which was released internally to RCMP and Halifax Regional Police around 8 a.m.
It would not be released to the public until 10:17 a.m. when RCMP tweeted the photo.
The morning of April 19, Const. Heidi Stevenson of the Enfield, N.S., RCMP detachment called 911 dispatcher Lisa Stewart around 8:20 a.m. to ask more about the gunman's mock car and whether he had a police radio.
"Wait until you take a look at it … unbelievable this car," Stewart said.
They both speculated whether the cruiser could be stolen because of the realistic decals, but Stevenson said "anybody can get decals made."
Christine
Heart stops to pay her respects at roadside memorial for mass shooting
victim Lillian Campbell in Wentworth, N.S., on April 24, 2020. (Liam Hennessey/The Canadian Press)
"But can you just go out and buy a light bar?" Stevenson asked, to which Stewart said, "I don't know."
Stevenson was killed by the gunman in Shubenacadie, N.S., roughly two hours later, after a gunfight where she managed to injure his head.
Other officers were just as confused: RCMP Staff Sgt. Brice Briers was updating a Truro Police Service officer, Cpl. Ed Cormier, on the marked cruiser around 8:45 a.m.
Cormier said that was "crazy," and the Mounties must be second-guessing every RCMP car they pass.
"It's hard to believe," Briers said. "I don't know how you acquire one, like if you ask me to figure out how to do that, I wouldn't be able to tell you."
Uniform likely came from uncle: commission
The documents also have conflicting details about how the gunman got the RCMP uniform he had in the car with him through the shootings, including the pants with distinctive yellow stripes, and white shirt.
Banfield said the gunman had his uncle's former uniform. But the uncle, retired Mountie Chris Wortman, said he hadn't given them to the gunman.
Chris Wortman confirmed he'd given the gunman his red serge uniform and high brown boots, but said the gunman might have been able to take the other uniform when he visited Wortman's home.
The commission noted there is no evidence the gunman ever wore the RCMP pants during the massacre. He was wearing black jeans when he was eventually killed by police at an Enfield gas station.
The inquiry's public hearings for this week will be held at the Prince George Hotel in downtown Halifax, near the commission's primary location at the Halifax Convention Centre.
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Nova Scotia gunman didn't hide his fake RCMP cruiser — even from police, says ex-boss
'Most of us thought it was all a bit of a hobby,' says former employer
The man police say killed 22 people in Nova Scotia last weekend made no secret of his quest to build a near-perfect, highly detailed replica of an RCMP cruiser, according to those who knew him.
"He created the car," said Donald Walker, a Dartmouth, N.S., funeral director who employed the suspected gunman years ago, and remained on friendly terms. "He didn't walk up to the auction and there was an RCMP car already decked out like that.
"Most of us thought it was all a bit of a hobby, not something that would lead to this kind of situation."
Walker says Gabriel Wortman, a 51-year-old denturist, pulled out his cellphone on one of the last occasions that they saw each other — either late last summer, or in early fall — and proudly shared pictures of an authentic-looking, marked RCMP cruiser.
Walker's understanding is that Wortman purchased the then stripped-down surplus police car from a government auction site and then went about restoring it, going as far as to have all the appropriate RCMP decals made by a graphics company.
And Walker says the police were apparently aware of what Wortman was doing.
"He said that he had talked to the police," the funeral director said. "That they suggested to him, if he was going to take it to car shows, that he not drive it on the road, but take it by trailer."
It's not clear whether the car came to the RCMP's formal attention, or was perhaps simply discussed on a more casual basis with an individual officer.
At a news conference in Dartmouth on Wednesday, Chief Supt. Chris Leather said the RCMP first became aware the suspected gunman was driving a replica car, and wearing an authentic police uniform, when they interviewed a crucial witness between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. last Sunday — the morning after the killing spree began in Portapique, a community about 40 kilometres west of Truro.
The information investigators gleaned then wasn't shared with the public until more than two hours later, at 10:17 a.m. local time, via a tweet with a photo of the mock cruiser.
Earlier this week, however, an RCMP news release claimed the public was informed of the danger as soon as police learned of the suspect's disguise.
Leather said the delay in notifying the public about the car and uniform was a matter of information flow in a "dynamic and fluid" situation.
The suspected gunman died in a standoff with police in Enfield, north of Halifax, shortly before noon on Sunday.
Theft deterrent
But Wortman's attempts to obtain a replica police car date back years, according to a Dieppe, N.B., businessman, who says Wortman tried to purchase a decommissioned RCMP cruiser from him at some point in late 2017 or early 2018.
Bernard Cain says Wortman told him that he was a retired Mountie —a lie — and claimed he wanted to park the squad car outside of his cottage to deter thieves.
"He was having trouble with the locals breaking into cottages in the offseason," said Cain. "He wanted to put the car on the front corner and then move it over to the other corner ... So if the local yokels were going up and down the road they'd see the police car, and they'd know to stay the hell away."
The deal quickly fell apart, says Cain, because Wortman was unwilling to pay anything near the $2,800 asking price.
A
photograph of Kristen Beaton, one of the 22 victims of last weekend's
mass shooting in Nova Scotia, is seen at a makeshift memorial in Debert,
N.S., on Thursday. (Tim Krochak/Reuters)
CBC News spoke with two mechanics who regularly work on RCMP vehicles. Both asked not to be named in order to protect their business relationship with the force. Based on photos of Wortman's cruiser, they said it was a near-perfect replica, and would have been next to impossible for a member of the public to sniff out as a fake.
However, both pointed to the positioning, and type, of radio antenna on the rear of the car as being incorrect. And they said the lights on the top of the cruiser, and bars between the front and rear seat, were not standard RCMP issue.
But some details were almost too good. One of the mechanics said the detailing, cutting and placement of the RCMP decals were letter-perfect, suggesting Wortman had sought help from someone who regularly kitted out the force's vehicles.
It's a point that others who know policing have been raising as well.
Michael Arntfield, a former detective who now teaches criminology at Western University, wonders if a professional assisted Wortman.
"These stripe/strike packages, as they're known, are laser measured. They're done by third party vendors who have all the specifications," he told the CBC.
"What questions were asked as to why he was doing this? What was the purpose of this? Did he hold himself out as a police officer when he had this done?" Arntfield asked. "These are questions, I think, that should be answered sooner than later."
The RCMP did not answer media questions on Thursday, but in his Wednesday briefing Chief Supt. Leather said determining just how Wortman obtained his replica vehicle, and apparently authentic uniform, is a "key element" in the investigation.
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Work on cruiser used in N.S. mass shooting began 9 months before rampage, court documents reveal
Search warrant documents show gunman emailed about progress on former RCMP car
Newly unsealed search warrant documents related to the Nova Scotia mass shooting are shedding light on how the gunman created the replica RCMP vehicle he used.
On April 18 and 19 of this year, Gabriel Wortman killed 22 people — including neighbours, strangers and an RCMP officer — and burned homes belonging to three couples he killed. Two men who were shot survived. The gunman travelled about 195 kilometres over a period of 13 hours before RCMP killed him at a gas station in Enfield, N.S.
During most of the rampage that started in the tiny community of Portapique, N.S., the 51-year-old denturist drove a decommissioned police vehicle that he had bought through a federal government auction site on June 27, 2019 for $10,990, according to RCMP Sgt. Angela Hawryluk, who wrote the search warrant applications.
During a news conference in April, RCMP said the gunman bought the cruiser in the fall of 2019.
Though it would've been plain white and stripped of its accessories when the gunman purchased it, the documents released Monday show that for months, he worked to make it look identical to an actual RCMP cruiser.
He installed a push bar on the front bumper on Aug. 24, 2019, and emailed someone to say the car was a bigger job than he expected and it was his first time doing the work. The recipient's name was redacted.
Even prior to purchasing that exact car, Wortman appeared to be making plans for a replica.
"Are you fellows able to do a complete decal set for an RCMP Ford Taurus sedan?" he wrote in a June 10, 2019 email to an American company, according to the search warrant documents.
The company responded the following day that it was passing on the job and getting away from custom orders.
He ended up getting the decals far closer to home, at a sign shop in Truro, N.S. RCMP have said one of the shop's employees, Peter Griffon, printed the decals for Wortman without his boss's knowledge.
Griffon was living in Portapique on parole in April after serving time for drug offences linked to organized crime. The Parole Board of Canada ruled that after initially lying to RCMP about printing the decals, he violated the conditions of his release and it sent him back to prison.
After
the mass shooting, RCMP released security camera footage of the car the
shooter drove that was captured on the morning of April 19. Most police
vehicles in Nova Scotia do not have a push bar on their front bumpers. (RCMP)
RCMP went on to obtain a search warrant to examine Griffon's phone records and found he corresponded with Wortman a number of times via email and had photos of a police cruiser saved.
Griffon first sent Wortman multiple photos of an RCMP cruiser with decals on it at the end of July 2019. The photos were taken in a garage but it's unclear from the court documents if they were of an actual cruiser. Just before Christmas, he sent a photo of lights on top of a cruiser.
A month before the massacre, Wortman wrote to Griffon saying "beers on Fridays" were suspended due to COVID-19. In a March 16 email, he assured Griffon, who was facing a layoff, that there would be plenty of odd jobs around his properties.
The morning of April 18, Wortman wrote Griffon saying he was going on a drive to celebrate his anniversary but they planned to work together the following day. Griffon was splitting wood for him in Portapique.
Shooter claimed cruiser was for parade
Summaries of interviews police conducted with people who knew the gunman show that Griffon wasn't the only person aware that he was working on a replica car.
Aaron Tuck, his wife, Jolene Oliver, and their 17-year-old daughter, Emily, lived in Portapique and were among the victims on April 18.
Tuck's best friend, whose name is redacted in the court documents, said he saw a white police cruiser and a package of decals in Wortman's garage at some point in 2019.
During the 2019 visit, Wortman asked Tuck and his friend for help moving a chair and told them "he was fixing up the car to use in parades," according to the court documents. He also explained to them he was buying accessories for the vehicle online.
The faces of the 22 victims of the Nova Scotia mass shooting. (CBC)
While they were at his garage in Portapique, Tuck's friend said Wortman showed off a police uniform as well as something that went with a holster and belt. The exact word is redacted.
Tuck's friend said he'd heard Wortman liked to work on motorcycles in the garage that he'd outfitted with a big bay door and a bar. But he said he'd also heard that "Gabriel would terrorize people" while drinking, according to the court documents. He'd also tried to buy the Tuck's property for far less than they hoped to sell it.
Other people who spoke to police have described the gunman as violent, paranoid and controlling.
Gunman had pandemic concerns
RCMP have previously said they believe fears about COVID-19 led Wortman to stockpile cash, food and fuel.
The shooter made reference to not being optimistic about the virus in emails released Monday.
The RCMP summary said Wortman wrote to someone that once money runs out people will become desperate and need guns. "Thank god we are well armed," he wrote. The name of the person he was emailing is redacted.
Several people who have spoken to RCMP mentioned Wortman's familiarity with guns.
In the newly unsealed documents, a man originally from New Brunswick told police that he and Wortman had gone to gun shows together and spent time together shooting in Maine. Another person told RCMP that Wortman was known to fire his gun into the ocean.
4 former cruisers
The car Wortman used during the shootings was one of four former cruisers he had purchased in recent years.
Through his company, Berkshire Broman Corp., he also bought a 2013 Ford Taurus from an auction on the federal procurement site for $2,998 in July 2019. He took possession of that car — which was also previously owned by the RCMP — on Oct. 2, 2019. It was parked in Dartmouth during the shootings.
Police found two more former police cruisers burned at his Portapique properties. He purchased one of those cruisers in March 2019.
The RCMP investigation continues nearly seven months after the mass shootings. Investigators have said determining how the gunman obtained the illegal weapons he used, the uniform he wore and whether he had help are key parts of the investigation.
So far, no one is facing charges.
RCMP
believe the gunman wore parts of an authentic RCMP uniform during a
deadly shooting rampage around rural areas of Nova Scotia on April 18
and 19. (Nova Scotia RCMP)
Vehicle accessories bought online
The documents released Monday pertain to a request the RCMP made to search the gunman's Amazon account.
In her sworn affidavit, Sgt. Hawryluk said the warrant pertains to murder, attempt to commit murder, weapons trafficking, unauthorized importation of firearms, conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to import firearms.
Through search warrants, the RCMP also obtained information from PayPal Canada showing that between March 2019 and November 2019, Wortman spent at least $3,477 USD buying items, many of which appeared to relate to police car retrofits.
Some of the items he paid for during that time period included a police push bumper, two central consoles, rear window armour bars, a "prisoner transport partition" and an LED light bar. Most of these purchases date from late March 2019 to early April 2019 and were meant for police vehicles.
Other items Wortman purchased using a credit card included a gun rack and patches or decals featuring police themes such as the "thin blue line" and the Canadian flag.
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On final day of inquiry, RCMP lawyer says N.S. mass shooting response 'far from perfect'
Lori Ward told the inquiry there are a number of things 'the RCMP wishes it could go back in time and change'
Lori Ward, counsel for the attorney general of Canada, gave a final oral submission Friday before the Mass Casualty Commission in Truro, N.S., which has been hearing from lawyers and participants this week.
The commission is leading the inquiry into the rampage in rural Nova Scotia where gunman Gabriel Wortman burned homes and killed neighbours, acquaintances and strangers on April 18-19, 2020, while driving a mock police cruiser. Twenty-two people, including a pregnant woman, were killed.
"In the face of such tragedy, the urge to lay blame is strong and the person who bears ultimate responsibility is not here," Ward said.
"He is taken out of the narrative, and the focus becomes what others did or didn't do to stop him. Those who are left behind and who could not prevent the violence are the focus of anger."
Ward said while some things during and after the shootings went according to police plans and training, others "did not work as they should have."
She cited two examples that were brought up repeatedly during the inquiry by lawyers for victims' families.
Ward said it's "obvious" the roughly 19 hours it took to find the Bond and Tuck-Oliver families on Cobequid Court in Portapique — where the violence began — was far too long.
"The anguish felt by the families of those victims at the thought at that lapse of time is unimaginable, and we acknowledge that suffering," Ward said, her voice breaking.
Similarly, she said scene security at victim Gina Goulet's home was mishandled and "should not have happened."
Goulet's daughter and son-in-law have said no one told them when they could re-enter the house, and when they eventually did, they discovered blood and a shell casing. They arranged to have the home cleaned on their own.
Twenty-two
people died on April 18 and 19, 2020. Top row from left: Gina Goulet,
Dawn Gulenchyn, Jolene Oliver, Frank Gulenchyn, Sean McLeod, Alanna
Jenkins. Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi
Stevenson, Heather O'Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from top: Kristen
Beaton, Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg
Blair. Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck.
(CBC)
Ward also said the issues that officers had in the RCMP Bible Hill detachment using the force's Pictometry mapping program, which is based on satellite imagery, show it has to be easier to access. Better GPS technology would have allowed more immediate-response teams to go into Portapique, she said.
It's also clear that radio communications were an issue, Ward said, given that critical pieces of information weren't heard or re-broadcast to ensure the right people acknowledged them, like how two Portapique shooting victims survived.
There were also timeliness and accuracy issues with the social media posts sent out by the RCMP, Ward said. The first tweet on April 18 called the incident a firearms complaint, which didn't explain the gravity of the situation. The next day, there was a delay in sending out information about the gunman's mock cruiser.
"These are just some examples of things the RCMP wishes it could go back in time and change. Some relate to training, equipment and resources, some are simply human error. All of them are regrettable," Ward said.
Many victims' families and others impacted by the mass shooting attended the final week of the inquiry to hear final submissions, as they have throughout the commission.
Volunteer firefighter Darrell Currie said the end of public hearings Friday was an "exhale type of day" for him and many of the families who often gathered around the same tables in hotels and convention centres around Halifax, Dartmouth and Truro to watch the inquiry since February.
Currie and Greg Muise, the deputy chief and fire chief of the Onslow Belmont Fire Brigade, were both inside their fire hall on April 19, 2020, when two RCMP officers opened fire at the building in their mistaken belief they were shooting at the gunman.
Onslow Fire Deputy Chief Darrell Currie speaks with CBC News outside the Mass Casualty Commission in Truro, N.S., on Thursday. (CBC)
"You know the reason is not good that we're all here together, but there's certainly a good group of friends, and I mean that's going to be hard to walk away from," Currie said Thursday outside the inquiry.
"But I think it'll be a relief that this phase is over."
Currie said it was important for him to come in person for roughly 70 days of the proceedings to hear what was being said and support the victims' families. While it seemed "somewhat therapeutic" initially for himself as well, Currie said the long days and piles of documents have become overwhelming.
Although some family members have said they are left with questions and concerns, Currie said he has learned a lot throughout the inquiry and had the satisfaction of speaking his mind when he testified alongside Muise.
"I was allowed to say whatever I wanted to say where a lot of the families haven't been given that opportunity," Currie said.
Commissioners Michael MacDonald, Kim Stanton and Leanne Fitch also delivered their final remarks Friday, summing up the testimony, documents and panels that were held to address their broad mandate.
Commissioner
Leanne Fitch, former chief of the Fredericton Police Force,
participates in a roundtable session with members of police-related
organizations at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass
murders in rural Nova Scotia on April 18/19, 2020, in Halifax on Sept.
1. Gabriel Wortman, dressed as an RCMP officer and driving a replica
police cruiser, murdered 22 people. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
They have been tasked to not only look into the mass shooting itself, but underlying factors like domestic violence, firearms access, police structures, and emergency communications.
"After today, the commission's public proceedings are over. But our work is far from done. While you may not hear from us as often, or see us in our daily proceedings, in the weeks and months ahead we will be exclusively focused on preparing and completing the commission's final report," Fitch said.
"We commissioners have been entrusted with a great responsibility and we will continue to do our utmost to live up to that."
The report will be shared publicly by March 31, 2023, and include guidance about who should carry out each recommendation, and when, Fitch said.
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Public Proceedings
Participant Submissions
September 23, 2022 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
We will update this page and our calendar as more details become available.
Agenda
- Participant Submissions: Participants will make
their final oral submissions over the course of the week, sharing their
suggestions for recommendations with the Commissioners. Final
submissions were originally scheduled for Sept 19-22, but due to Monday,
September 19 being declared a national day of mourning, our schedule
has shifted by one day.
- Ben Perryman, BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA)/East Coast Prison Justice Society (ECPJS)
- Samantha Parris, Attorney General of Nova Scotia
- Nasha Nijhawan, National Police Federation (NPF)
- Lori Ward, Department of Justice Canada
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Benjamin Perryman
Assistant Professor
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Fredericton
Benjamin Perryman
Benjamin Perryman is a lawyer with a passion for social justice and a scholar of public law and international human rights law. His work is driven by a desire to use law to serve the interests of marginalized persons and groups and by a curiosity of how rights are conceived individually and collectively.
Currently a doctoral candidate at Yale Law School, Benjamin's research examines the relationship between happiness and constitutional law and analyzes how the emerging "Science of Happiness" can be used to rethink constitutional theory and decision-making. In addition to his doctoral research, Benjamin is a human rights adjudicator in the Province of Nova Scotia; a part-time faculty member of the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University and the Department of Political Science, Saint Mary's University; and a member of the Board of Directors of the Halifax Refugee Clinic.
Benjamin obtained his master of laws degree from Yale Law School as a Fulbright Scholar, and his juris doctor degree from Osgoode Hall Law School. He also holds a master of development economics degree from Dalhousie University and a bachelor of science degree in Biochemistry from the University of British Columbia. He is called to the Bars of Ontario and Nova Scotia. Prior to embarking on his graduate legal studies, Benjamin was a law clerk at the Federal Court (Canada) and the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, where he worked on a number of prominent human rights cases.
Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Benjamin has lived, worked, and studied from coast to coast in Canada, touching down in four different provinces. He currently calls Halifax, Nova Scotia home.
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Harry Critchley (he/him) is Co-Chair of
ECPJS and a JD student at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie
University. He has extensive experience working as an educator with
currently and formerly incarcerated Nova Scotians, having previously
worked to develop the Nova Scotia Community College’s Limitless program,
a transition-to-college initiative for persons in provincial custody.
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Sheila Wildeman (she/her) is Co-Chair
of ECPJS and an Associate Professor of Law at the Schulich School of
Law at Dalhousie University. Her research engages disability law and
prison law. Sheila is also on the board of Inclusion NS, and from 2009
to 2016 was on the board of the Canadian Mental Health Association -
Nova Scotia Division.
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Tari Ajadi (he/him) is
a PhD candidate in Political Science at Dalhousie University. His
dissertation research compares how Black activists in municipalities in
Nova Scotia and Ontario strategize to prompt change in policing and in
health policy. A British-Nigerian immigrant to Canada, Tari aims to
produce research that supports and engages with Black communities across
the country. He has published articles in The Globe and Mail, The
Chronicle-Herald, University Affairs, Canadian Government Executive,
Canadian Diversity and The Tyee. He is a member of the Board of
Directors of the Health Association of African Canadians. He is a Junior
Fellow at the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance. He
holds a MA in Political Science from Dalhousie University.
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Michele Cleary has
been in private practice in Nova Scotia since 1985 and was one of the
first recipients of the Frances Fish Award in 1996. She was employed
with CSC after law school before starting private practice. She has had
involvement in many social justice matters (domestic violence, mental
health and the law, and supported housing), and has practiced in rural
and urban areas of the province.
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Hanna Garson is board member of ECPJS and she currently
serves as the Coordinator for ECPJS’s Visiting Committee project. She
is also a staff lawyer with Nova Scotia Legal Aid. She maintains active
practice areas in criminal law, prison law, and family law. She is a
member of the Canadian Association of Prison Lawyers and was previously a
member of the Board of Directors for the EFMNS. In 2017, she wrote
Habeas Corpus in Nova Scotia: An Accessible Guide, a legal information
resource for prisoners in the province.
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Leah Genge (she/her) is
a family physician with a certification of added competence in
Addiction Medicine. She is a physician with the Mobile Outreach Street
Health (MOSH) team, Direction 180, the Spryfield Medical Centre, and is
an addiction medicine consultant with the Nova Scotia Health Authority.
She is an advocate for harm reduction and has co-led Nova Scotia’s
first managed alcohol program and safe supply initiatives.
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El Jones is
a poet, professor and activist. She is a two time National Spoken Word
champion and was Halifax's Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015. Her work
focuses on social justice issues including feminism, prison abolition,
anti-racism, and decolonization. She is an Assistant Professor at Mount
Saint Vincent University and has also taught at Dalhousie University,
Acadia University, Nova Scotia Community College, and Saint Mary's
University. In 2017, she was named the 15th Nancy's Chair in Women's
Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University.
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Keiisha Pillai (she/her) is
a staff criminal lawyer with Nova Scotia Legal Aid. She maintains
active practice areas in criminal law and prison law. She has been
shaped by her time in Texas spent working with death penalty defence
lawyers who specialized in post-conviction work. She’s also interned at
the Yukon Human Rights Commission where her work focused on solitary
confinement and discrimination at correctional centres. In the past,
Keiisha has worked with civil society organizations that strive to
advance the rights of the Indigenous populations in her home country of
Malaysia, and also with the Iraqi refugee population in Texas
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Randolph (Randy) Riley is
a prison activist and writer from Cherry Brook, Nova Scotia. He is a
co-founder of the Black Power Hour radio show collective on CKDU 88.1FM
and is a research assistant with Dr OmiSoore Dryden, James R Johnston
Chair of Black Canadian Studies, Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie
University.
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/ her) is a lawyer at a Halifax law firm. Jennifer is also involved
with the Canadian Bar Association, LEAF, and the Dalhousie Feminist
Legal Association. So far, her ECPJS role has focused on board
governance, policing issues, and supervision of student research
projects. |
https://www.dal.ca/faculty/law/news-events/news/2022/05/16/meet_harry_critchley__class_of_2022.html
Meet Harry Critchley, Class of 2022
Congratulations to the Schulich School of Law’s Class of 2022! In the coming weeks, we’ll feature Q&As with graduating law students who will reflect on their time at Weldon. Today we're talking to Harry Critchley.
Why did you want to attend the Schulich School of Law?
Schulich Law was the only place I was interested in when I decided to go back to school. Before that, I worked for about five years as an educator and researcher—most recently at the Access to Justice and Law Reform Institute of Nova Scotia, which is actually located in the law school. Through my work and also through volunteering in the jails, I met a number of students, lawyers, and law professors from Dalhousie, so I was well aware of the Weldon Tradition. Also, Schulich Law offers some of the most generous scholarships of any law school in Canada and that support really helped make it all possible.
In what ways were you involved with the law school community?
I've been lucky to be involved in a number of activities within the law school and beyond. During 2L, I was an Indigenous Blacks & Mi'kmaq (IB&M) tutor and this year I also gave a talk with Dr. El Jones and Schulich alum Jennifer Taylor on a report I helped write for the HRM.
Right now, together with Professor Sheila Wildeman, I'm the co-chair of East Coast Prison Justice, an advocacy organization for criminalized Nova Scotians, mainly in the areas of corrections and policing. Through that, I've worked on numerous projects, including an ongoing human rights monitoring initiative for people in provincial custody with Prof. Wildeman, Dr. Adelina Iftene, and Schulich Law alum Hanna Garson. We're working right now, with the BC Civil Liberties Association, as a participant coalition in the Mass Casualty Commission, which has been a really interesting and challenging experience so far. I'm also on the board for the Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia and the Halifax Board of Police Commissioners.
What is your favourite law school memory?
My favourite memory is being at Dalhousie Legal Aid Service for the semester. After a full year online, it was so great being in-person and getting to work on files with everyone else. I had wanted to do the Clinic even before I started at Schulich Law, so I was really happy when I got the chance in the fall of 3L.
What will you miss most about Schulich Law?
I will miss how incredibly kind and supportive everyone at Schulich Law is. It's a pretty wide world once you get out there lawyering—even in a smaller province like Nova Scotia—so it's great to have met so many amazing people.
What are your post-graduation plans?
I'm going to be articling at Nova Scotia Legal Aid in Dartmouth in their criminal office. Right now, I am in the South of France working and living on a farm and practicing my French. It's been really great to take a break from the law and just be outside—though learning bee-keeping in French was pretty difficult at first!
Board of Police Commissioners – Member Biographies
Commissioner Lindell Smith - Chair
Commissioner Carole McDougall - Vice-Chair
Carole is an active member of the community with a background as communications professional, teacher, mentor and volunteer. She has worked in Communications and Marketing for 30 years in both private and non profit organizations.
Carole taught elementary school at the former Richmond School (now Family Court), was media coordinator for the Inquiry into the Wrongful Conviction of Donald Marshall Jr., worked as Marketing and Promotions Manager with The Halifax Daily News and more recently was Communications Director with United Way Halifax. During her 18 years with United Way, she worked alongside community organizations, their staff and leaders as well as countless volunteers working daily to alleviate poverty and support people.
While working full time with United Way, she was also a part time instructor at Mount Saint Vincent University, teaching 3rd and 4th year Public Relations students the art and science of Strategic Communications Management.
Volunteering with community, charitable and cultural organizations is her passion. She was the first woman to chair the board of directors of the YMCA Halifax/Dartmouth and is a member of the Board of Trustees. She served two terms as Provincial Director of Canadian Parents for French. Carole was a member of the National Arts Centre Board of Directors. During her six years on the NAC board she co-chared the Human Resorces and Compensation Committee and the Marketing Committee.
Carole holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Ottawa and a Bachelor of Education from Dalhousie University.
Commissioner Anthony Thomas
Anthony (“Tony”) Thomas is the Provincial appointee to the Board of Police Commissioners. Thomas is Cree First Nation from Norway House, Manitoba, but has been a band member of Sipekne’katik First Na-tion for over 15 years. Thomas has followed a traditional path, participates in cultural ceremonies, and is always willing to share his knowledge on traditional teachings from Elders involved in his journey. Thomas completed his Bachelors of Social Work in 2000 and began working for Correctional Services Canada in 2002. Thomas is currently a Federal Parole Officer with Correctional Services Canada.
In addition to periodically coaching and volunteering on his three sons’ hockey and lacrosse teams over the years, Thomas has also worked on multiple boards in HRM; including the Lake District Recreation Associa-tion (LDRA), the Indigenous Black and Mi’kmaq Law Program at Dalhousie University, as well as serving on the Board of Directors for the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre for over 20 years.
Commissioner Yemi Akindoju
Yemi Akindoju is President of Vanity Fashions Limited, a privately owned and operated Canadian company founded in 1989 and a leader in the fashion jewellery industry. Prior to this, Yemi worked with Scotiabank for 12 years, where he retired as a senior client relationship manager – commercial banking. Immediately prior to immigrating to Canada in 2001, Yemi was a Senior Executive at Sterling Bank (Nigeria) Plc.
Yemi holds an accounting diploma and an MBA (Banking and Finance) from Nigeria, he is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA) 1991. He has over 35 years’ experience in the financial services industry including commercial and retail banking, microfinance, accounting, treasury management, audit, and assurance. Yemi commenced his career as an audit trainee before transitioning into banking where he provided professional support to mid-market corporate and small businesses. Yemi has been recognized for his creativity and fresh perspective in solving problems for his clients. As a senior executive, he was responsible for setting the strategic direction and leading all lines of business that served small businesses, retail, and commercial clients.
A very active member of his community in Halifax, outside of work, Yemi enjoys spending quality time with his family, swimming, and golfing. Yemi is also involved in community work through volunteer board and membership in the following organizations; Board of Directors - Canada Games Centre (Immediate Past Chair); Board Member (Treasurer) - Black Business Initiative (Current); and Volunteer, Member Standing-in-the-Gap (Help for Homeless).
Commissioner Harry Critchley
Harry Critchley is a resident of District 8 Halifax Peninsula North and a third year law student at the Schulich School of Law. Before going back to school, Harry worked for several years as an educator and researcher, including at Dalhousie University, the School of Access at the Nova Scotia Community College, and the Access to Justice and Law Reform Institute of Nova Scotia (formerly the Law Reform Commission of Nova Scotia).
While at Schulich, Harry has also worked with the BC Civil Liberties Association, the oldest and most active civil liberties advocacy organization in the country, where his work has been primarily in the areas of administrative and constitutional law, with a focus on policing, prisons, and privacy.
Outside of these professional contexts, Harry has a significant history volunteering in educational and advocacy capacities with currently and formerly incarcerated Nova Scotians. Harry currently serves as the Co-Chair of the East Coast Prison Justice Society and the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for the Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia.
Commissioner Becky Kent
Commissioner Lisa Blackburn
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/brian-carter-ba-cpp-20910412
Brian Carter BA, CPP
Masters of Education student Mount Saint Vincent University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
About
Experience
25 years with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Served in Haiti 1995 training police and headed firearms program
Trained officer on officer survival, firearms, OC spray, batons etc.
Trained police from former east block counties, Dept of Natural Resources and Canadian Military
Headed Security for Maritime Tel and Tel later Aliant
Policing consultant for the NS Dept of Justice DOJ)
OH&S manager for Department of Justice
OH&S Dept of Health during H1N1 pandemic
Specialties: Workplace Violence risk assessments and prevention plans
Officer safety training for police
Firearms instructor (Police)
Simunition instructor
Security
Occupational Health and Safety
H1N1 flu and OH&S issues
'I feared him': Retired RCMP officer speaks out on death of John Tillmann
Brian Carter reveals how Tillmann intimidated and frightened his family
One of John Mark Tillmann's countless victims, a retired RCMP constable, is sharing his story for the first time now that he no longer has to be afraid of the man who he said was a "very dangerous and violent person" — particularly towards women, Jews and minorities, and police.
According to a Nova Scotia death certificate Tillmann, 57, died Dec. 23 in Musquodoboit Harbour, N.S.
"I feared him and I have no qualms telling you that because there are people you should fear," Brian Carter, who was a constable at the Lower Sackville detachment, said in a recent interview in his home in Fall River.
Tillmann was arrested six years ago after he stole an estimated 10,000 pieces of art, antiquities, letters and books from museums, stores, libraries and homes across Atlantic Canada.
John Mark Tillmann appeared in a documentary on The Fifth Estate in 2016. (CBC)
He was sentenced to eight years in prison on 40 charges that included theft, fraud and obstruction of justice. He served three years before being granted full parole in 2016.
Carter disputes the often-repeated narrative that Tillmann was a prolific thief with a penchant for art and antiquities. Now that Tillmann is dead, Carter is breaking his silence so the other side is known — the abusive, threatening and dangerous side.
"He was a violent individual who stole things to survive, that's who he was," said Carter.
"Once he was caught with all these thefts he was just this notorious thief but he's far more than a notorious thief."
Men were neighbours
Carter would know. Not only is he a retired RCMP constable, he was also Tillmann's neighbour at Miller Lake.
Carter said Tillmann was menacing and he and his family were constantly looking over their shoulder.
Tillmann's headstone at a cemetery in Elderbank, N.S. (Brian MacKay/CBC)
He said Tillmann vandalized his property and destroyed a water ski slalom course he set up for a competition on the lake.
But the intimidation escalated beyond vandalism. He said Tillmann "stalked me a lot."
He said he caught him sitting in his canoe among the lake weeds, watching him late at night.
"I'd shine my light and I'd find him sitting in there looking at what's going on in my house," said Carter. "It's unsettling."
There was another time Carter was on the water and caught Tillmann
following him. Carter shone his light at him and Tillmann's "boat comes
straight toward me, and aggressively toward me."
The incidents happened at night, making them harder to prove, Carter said.
He reported only the vandalism to the water ski course to police. No charges were laid because identification at night would be difficult to prove.
'He hated police, for sure'
He also had extra reasons to fear him because Tillmann loathed police, as noted in a parole board document.
"He hated police, for sure," said Carter. "That's how I mentally dealt with him."
So Carter, already vigilant by training as a police marksman, managed his fear by staying vigilant. He invested several thousand dollars on surveillance cameras for his property to protect his family.
"I have them covering every corner of the house inside and up the driveway."
It wasn't just threatening encounters that led to Carter to take extra precautions. There was also shop talk about Tillmann.
Talk in the detachment would include Tillmann's attempted murder charge against his own mother. She died of natural causes before it went to trial.
When he retired as a police officer and took a job heading security at Mount Saint Vincent University, once again, Tillmann's name came up.
He learned about threats against female professors, and the theft of a valuable book from the school's collection — Charles Darwin's On The Origins of Species. Tillmann stole the book, which was later auctioned off by Sotheby's.
Carter was registered with the parole board as a victim of Tillmann and permitted to attend parole hearings. He requested a condition that Tillmann stay away from him and his family to ensure their safety.
He also learned that Tillmann had conditions imposed on internet use out of concern that he would abuse women.
Some of the historical artifacts stolen by John Mark Tillmann are displayed at a press conference in 2013. (The Canadian Press)
He said he was one of only two people who attended a hearing, he believes, because so many were scared of him.
The call notifying him of Tillmann's death, he said, was like a Christmas present. He doubted it at first, suspecting Tillmann had faked his own death.
When he was convinced of Tillmann's death, it was a huge relief for his family, who he said has been terrorized for years.
"His death solved that problem," Carter said.
Carter said the public should remember Tillmann was an avowed admirer of Adolf Hitler, and intimidated his neighbours.
"We should always have the facts, the truth about someone," said Carter. "Without the truth, people will just believe that he wasn't a bad guy. He was a bad guy."
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 18:40:03 -0300
Subject: Fwd: Mass Casualty Presentations Hey Robert Bracken I just
called your buddy Blair Hagen again and left another voicemail
Correct???
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 18:31:56 -0300
Subject: Mass Casualty Presentations Hey Robert Bracken I just called
your buddy Blair Hagen again and left another voicemail Correct???
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Blair Hagen Mass Casualty Commission Statement
11 Comments
Public Proceedings
Participant Submissions
September 22, 2022 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Please note that proceedings for Thursday, September 22 will start at 9:00 a.m.
Agenda
- Participant Submissions: Participants will make
their final oral submissions over the course of the week, sharing their
suggestions for recommendations with the Commissioners. Final
submissions were originally scheduled for Sept 19-22, but due to Monday,
September 19 being declared a national day of mourning, our schedule
has shifted by one day.
- Jessica Zita, Lockyer Zaduk Zeeh
- Erin Breen, Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), Avalon Sexual Assault Centre and Women’s Wellness Within
- Jessica Rose, Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia
- Jeanne Sarson & Linda MacDonald, Feminists Fighting Femicide/Persons Against Non-State Torture
- Brian Carter, RCMP Veterans’ Association of Nova Scotia (VANS)
- Charles Thompson, Truro Police Service (TPS)
- Blair Hagen / Rod Giltaca, Canadian National Firearm Association (CNFA) / Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights (CCFR)
- Joanna Birenbaum, Canadian Coalition for Gun Control (CCGC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Cza62HdeI
Robert Bracken Mass Casualty Presentation
24 Comments
ROBERT BRACKEN: Civil disarmament agenda unrelated to public safety
ROBERT BRACKEN
First, regarding Geoffrey Hill’s May 11, 2020 letter, “Misplaced machismo.” A few thoughts. Modern sporting rifles (black guns) aren’t designed to kill people; they’re designed to fire a projectile, similar to their wooden-stock counterparts.
The AR-15 (Armalite Rifle) was designed as a modern, modular-type rifle, in the late ’50s, by Eugene Stoner, for the civilian market. The design was later adapted by the U.S. military, and modified for select fire/full auto, as well as the regular semi-automatic fire.
This is the most popular sporting rifle in North America. Thousands of Canadian men and women own and responsibly use these firearms. They enjoyed a non-restricted classification in Canada from 1979, until Bill C-17 in 1991, which put them back in the “restricted” category.
The government recently released its Engagement Summary Report — Reducing Violent Crime: A dialogue on Handguns and Assault-Style Firearms. It’s available online on the Public Safety website.
That report found that the majority of online survey respondents, who were unfortunately unable to attend roundtable/live discussions, owing to strict limitations on the process, reject the government’s current, punitive actions via the OIC (order In council).
From that report:
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On page 5: “The key findings from the online questionnaire were: Majority of respondents did not support further limiting access to firearms and assault-style firearms” (the first listed point).
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On page 28, Section 3.3.2 key finding: “Most respondents (81 per cent) did not want more to be done to limit access to handguns.”
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On page 31: “Similarly, most respondents (77 per cent) did not want more to be done to limit access to assault-style firearms.”
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On page 32: “The questionnaire asked respondents if they believe more should be done to limit access to assault weapons. 133,369 respondents answered the question. Overall, when asked if they believe more should be done to limit access to assault weapons, 21 per cent said “yes,” 77 per cent said “No,” and two per cent indicated they had no opinion.”
Real solutions, such as early intervention for at-risk youth, were mentioned in the report, as well as targeting criminals. Another concern was with the use of the term “assault weapon” (page 5), which is a bogus political term, with no technical merit.
As we speak, more firearms are being unilaterally added to the “prohibited” list. The FRT (Firearms Reference Table) is having its prohibited list updated with more “scary-looking” guns, regardless of how they function: bolt action, semi-automatic, etc.
Canada’s civil disarmament agenda has been kicked into high gear. More will follow, and public safety has nothing to do with it.
Dr. Caillin Langmann’s 2012 paper, Canadian Firearms Legislation and Effects on Homicide 1974 to 2008 (published in 2012 in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, available online) illustrates no significant benefit of Canada’s three large round of firearms controls (C-51, 1977; C-17, 1991; and C-68, 1995) on rates of homicide, using three methods of statistical analysis.
Refer to Paul Palango’s recent article in with MacLean’s magazine, which discusses the organizational failures of the RCMP, during a killer's recent murder spree. These failures, and the killer’s use of police impersonation, and arson, have taken a back seat to virtue-signaling, via civil disarmament.
Please visit www.nfa.ca for more information. For a better perspective of the U.S., visit: www.crimeresearch.org.
Robert Bracken, Atlantic regional director, Canada’s National Firearms Association, lives in Dartmouth.
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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 18:38:29 +0000
Subject: RE: A little Deja Vu for Justin Trudeau and Peter MacKay from 2013
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Please don't include me in this stuff.
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On 12/18/13, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://nfa.ca/news/canadas-
> grab
>
> Canada's NFA calls for Judicial Inquiry into High River Gun Grab
> Date: Monday, December 16, 2013
> Canada's NFA calls for Judicial Inquiry into High River Gun Grab
>
> "The mandate is too narrow to get the whole truth."
>
> "While the National Firearms Association wholeheartedly supports the
> RCMP Public Complaints Commission extending its investigation into the
> break-in of more than 1,900 High River homes by the RCMP, we believe
> that their mandate is too narrow. The Commission may be able to find
> out what happened, but it is hamstrung by legislative constraints that
> won't allow the Commissioner's investigators to dig deep enough to
> find out why, nor to address the significant question of how such an
> event could happen as it did outside of a police state," said NFA
> President Sheldon Clare, "For that reason, there simply must be a full
> judicial inquiry with a broad mandate to determine what happened and
> why in High River - the problem is far beyond one of police policy and
> procedure."
>
> The very limited mandate of the commissioner is expressed here, and
> reproduced below:
> http://www.cpc-cpp.gc.ca/cnt/
> aspx
>
> In light of the foregoing, pursuant to subsections 45.37(1) and
> 45.43(1) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act (RCMP Act), I am
> today initiating a complaint and public interest investigation into
> the conduct of all RCMP members or other persons appointed or employed
> under the authority of the RCMP Act involved in the activities in High
> River, Alberta, specifically:
> 1. Whether the RCMP members or other persons appointed or employed
> under the authority of the RCMPAct involved in entering private
> residences in High River complied with all appropriate training,
> policies, procedures, guidelines and statutory requirements; 2.
> Whether the RCMP members or other persons appointed or employed under
> the authority of the RCMP Act involved in seizing firearms from
> private residences in High River complied with all appropriate
> training, policies, procedures, guidelines and statutory requirements;
> and, 3. Whether the RCMP national, divisional and detachment-level
> policies, procedures and guidelines relating to such incidents are
> adequate.
>
> Clare continued, "It has become increasingly clear that the
> investigation also has to include the role of the Alberta Government
> and in particular the communications between Municipal Affairs
> Minister Doug Griffiths and the RCMP."
>
> Additionally, on page 92 of the RCMP response to one of NFA's eleven
> Access to Information (ATI) Act requests on the issue, it shows that
> in addition to the 223 RCMP officers deployed in High River during the
> flood, there were 310 Canadian Forces personnel in High River, many of
> whom were witnesses to the unwarranted search and seizure operations
> in High River. NFA Director for Alberta, Dennis Young confirmed,
> "During our communications with National Defence in October, we were
> told that documentation does exist from soldiers in response to our
> ATI Act request for records of 'complaints and witness accounts of any
> inappropriate or illegal action observed while working in High River'.
> However, the RCMP Public Complaints Commissioner does not have
> authority to examine these records or interview Canadian Forces
> personnel about what they saw and did in High River."
>
> Lacombe Lawyer Rick Hemmingson, who was featured in the Sun News
> documentary on High River (see link below), provided Canada's NFA with
> several reasons why a judicial enquiry is absolutely essential. "We
> concur," said Sheldon Clare, "and we will be writing the Prime
> Minister and the Premier of Alberta with our request."
>
> SUN NEWS - FULL DOCUMENTARY - BROKEN TRUST: GUN GRAB AT HIGH RIVER
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 20:10:43 -0300
> Subject: Attn Sgt Sylvain Roussel (403 516 6462) and Sgt Staff Sgt
> Scott Fuller (403 516 6455) Here is the info you seek about High River
> To: sylvain.roussel@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>
> Good Day Sgt Roussel,
>
> Trust that messing with corrupt mindless politicians in Alberta goes
> under the heading of fun for mean old me. BTW My records tell me I
> sent you three emails not just one. As per your request you can find
> the original text of the first email to you on August 12th and many
> others below. Believe it or I provided more info after it for your
> benefit and mine as well. I never make false allegations. I only state
> what I know to be true in writng, back it up with documentation and
> let the political cards fall where they may.
> Lets just say
> I have been dealing with questionable Feds in several countries for a
> very long tme. Last week things got rather serious when the CBC
> starting yapping about the President of Brazil and the CSEC etc so I
> made a lot of calls to cover my butt then got gone. I know my affairs
> are complicated but if anyone with two clues between their ears had
> been paying attention and understand politics and the IMF etc then
> they would have easily understood the ramifications of what the
> Brazilian President Rousseff was saying to all the UN dudes before
> Prez Obama spewed a bunch of his usual bullshit on Sept 24th.
>
> http://www.reuters.com/
> 5GI20130731
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/
> h-nsa-surveillance
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/
>
> https://mobile.twitter.com/
>
> Sgt Brian Topham may find it unbelievable that I a dumb Maritimer such
> as I may be may be involved. I don't care. Here is a little proof for
> you that I posted on the Internet about something that went down with
> Brazil and I one month before I called Sgt Fuller and tried to talk to
> Günther Schönfeldt and encountered an evil woman who claimed her name
> was just "Nora". For the record I liked Sgt Fuller and am impressed
> that he asked questions of you.
> But the lady "Nora" is another kettle of fish. She was so nasty she
> did not dare to tell me her last name so doubt if even her first name was for real.
> Our conversation started out ok. However after she acknowleged that
> she still has my files in her records going back to November 18h, 2003
> she saw something else in the file that seemed to spokk her that she
> would not discuss. Go figure. Methinks she figured that your fellow
> members of the RCMP/DND were gonna pounce on me once again and she
> wanted to play dumb. Quite frankly so did I. I have been falsely
> imprisoned without charges twice thus far.
>
> http://thedavidamosrant.
> ilian.html
>
> Whether you want it or not the best advice that I can give to the low
> level RCMP members involved in the High River nonsense is to be
> careful that Paulson and his minions don't blame it all on you local fellas in the end.
> Afterall it was your faces and words that were in published the news.
> Unless ou have
> proof the orders came from higher up the food chain they will cook
> your goose in order to protect their fancy arses.
>
> http://thedavidamosrant.
> lly-read-my.html
>
> Trust that I am happy you finally got back to me and glad you were
> honest with me. However I have no doubt your computers tell quite a
> tale about mean old me but a lot of it is very untrue. Lets just say
> there was already a lot of dirty water over the damn between the RCMP
> and I way back in the early 1980's before a lot of your officers
> joined the RCMP and long before the water started rising in High River
> last June. Thus I have very good reasons to not trust cops especially
> when your assoicates ignored my calls and emails on June 29th, 2013.
> However it does not follow that I don't know that there are not decent
> folks within the Queen's Red Serge. Most fella's did not join the
> force to abuse their fellow Canadians but you did swear some oath to
> the Force the most seem to think is more important that upholding the
> law. Hell even I tried to join the RCMP way back in 1970 but I was one
> inch to short to meet its standards back then. Just as Sgt Topham
> lamented a lot changed in 1974. FYI I would not be one bit surprised
> to find out that one of my relatives was helping you guys in High
> River last June.
>
> BTW as soon as it hit the news about the questionable taking of all
> the guns in High River I knew who was behind it. Hell I even let
> Danielle Smith know out of the gate that something was up on June the
> 3rd. I tried to explain it to S/Sgt Fuller when I called him a week or
> so ago but he said he would rather hear it from you Sgt Roussel. The
> dates on my published emails tell a very true tale. Take your
> associate Mr Baconfat's blog with pounds of salt.
> I have no idea what you fellas know and what you don't know about my
> concerns with the RCMP and the DND. I also know that you would not be
> allowed to tell me anyway because of your oaths. You must at least
> agree that the subject line of the email your computer acknowledged
> was a rather telling thing indeed. The Feds in the CSEC and the NAS
> cannot deny that computers owned by the taxpayers can be infinitely
> ethical and that answers comng from them very valuable to us all even
> if you are AOL. Correct Sgt Roussel? Why in hell would you delete my
> emails rather than save it to protect your own butt from litigation? It would have cost you nothing.
>
> Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
> 902 800 0369
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sylvain ROUSSEL <sylvain.roussel@rcmp-grc.gc.
> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 01:51:50 -0400
> Subject: Re: The latest top cop in High River Staff Sgt Ian Shardlow
> and his boss Bob Paulson should be able to explain this email to Greg
> Kvisle and the other pissed off folks
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> I am AOL until August 22., 2013. If your message is urgent please
> contact Staff Sergeant Scott FULLER at 403 516 6455
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Garrett WOOLSEY <garrett.woolsey@rcmp-grc.gc.
> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 04:05:18 -0400
> Subject: Re: I see the Sun Media dudes finally read my email about you
> after a couple months EH Brian Topham? (AOD)
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> I am currently away from the office, returning Monday October 14.
>
> As of Oct. 1, Insp. Tony Hamori is Ops Officer for SCB South, ph.
> 403-699-2642. I will be joining Calgary Federal SOC Team 1 and can be
> reached on cel @ 403-519-7308.
>
> Please contact S/Sgt. Scott Fuller for STO related enquiries.
>
> 1 403 516 6462
>
>
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: magicJack <voicemail@notify.magicjack.
> To: DAVID AMOS
> Sent: Wednesday, October 9, 2013 12:40 PM
> Subject: New VM (11) - 1:04 minutes in your magicJack mailbox from
> anonymous
>
>
>
> Dear magicJack User:
>
> You received a new 1:04 minutes voicemail message, on Wednesday,
> October 09,
> 2013 at 11:40:47 AM in mailbox 9028000369 from anonymous.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: PCC Complaints <complaints@cpc-cpp.gc.ca>
> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 21:14:53 +0000
> Subject: RE: Oh my did the Office of the Mayor of High River piss me
> off today EH Staff Sgt Ian Shardlow? Say Hey to Ms Smith at the
> Townhall Meeting tonight for me will ya...
> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> Hello Mr. Amos:
>
> This e-mail is to acknowledge your recent communication with our
> office about the RCMP.
>
> If you wish to submit a complaint regarding the on-duty conduct of a
> member(s) of the RCMP, you can do so through our online complaint form
> located at:
>
> https://www.cpc-cpp.gc.ca/cnt/
>
> Alternatively, we can also be reached by:
>
> Telephone : 1-800-665-6878
> E-mail: complaints@cpc-cpp.gc.ca
> Fax : 604-501-4095
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Günther Schönfeldt
> Intake Officer / Agent d'information de liaison Commission for Public
> Complaints Against the RCMP / Commission des plaintes du public contre
> la Gendarmerie royale du Canada Tel/Tél : 1-800-665-6878 | Fax/Téléc :
> (604) 501-4095 complaints@cpc-cpp.gc.ca
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Amos" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> To: <eblokland@highriver.ca>; <christopher@diArmani.com>;
> <brian.topham@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>; <bill.kaufmann@sunmedia.ca>;
> <Josee.Valiquette@rcmp-grc.gc.
> <Dale.McGowan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>; "bob.paulson"
> <bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>; "steven.blaney"
> <steven.blaney@parl.gc.ca>; <Sylvain.Roussel@rcmp-grc.gc.
> <premier@gov.ab.ca>; "highwood" <highwood@assembly.ab.ca>; "airdrie"
> <airdrie@assembly.ab.ca>; "mclellana" <mclellana@bennettjones.com>;
> <finditherefirst@gmail.com>; <Doug.Potts@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>;
> <Ian.Shardlow@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>; "ppalmater"
> <ppalmater@politics.ryerson.ca
> Cc: "David Amos" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> <jthackray@highriver.ca>; <kevin.rushworth@sunmedia.ca>; <abrander@highriver.ca>; "Jessica Hume"
> <jessica.hume@sunmedia.ca>; "greg.weston" <greg.weston@cbc.ca>; "pm"
> <pm@pm.gc.ca>; "MulcaT" <MulcaT@parl.gc.ca>; "justin.trudeau.a1"
> <justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca>
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 2:51 AM
> Subject: The latest top cop in High River Staff Sgt Ian Shardlow and
> his boss Bob Paulson should be able to explain this email to Greg
> Kvisle and the other pissed off folks
>
>
> FYI I called Greg Kvisle after I saw him on Sun TV he said he didn't
> need any help but he wanted to know who took his guns I told him I
> knew but he didn't believe me. Clearly Ken Braat knows Greg Kvisle and
> the cops very well. He should be able to tell Kvisle who took his
> guns.
>
> http://www.highrivertimes.com/
> h-river-rcmp
>
> I bet Harper and the RCMP remembers what this Maritimer said about his
> old 303s and shoguns when I ran for seat Parliament the first time
> after the Maritimers Landslide Annie Mclellan Wayne Easter and a
> boatload of corrupt cops pissed me off. If a don't feel free to scroll
> down N'esy Pas?
>
> I bet Danielle Smith, Bobby Baby Paulson remembers Robin Reid. Clearly
> Insp Dougy Potts and Sgt Ian Shardlow pissed her and a bunch of
> Indians off bigtime last year EH?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: robin reid
> To: bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ; pm@pm.gc.ca ; people stand up ;
> david.raymond.amos@gmail.com ; dominic ; calgary.west@assembly.ab.ca ;
> toewsv1@mts.net ; jspottedbear@yahoo.com ; jimsisson@inac.gc.ca ;
> hiddenfromhistory1@gmail.com ; admin@turnervalley.ca ;
> aimggc@worldnet.att.net ; alex@globalmedicaltourism.com.
> amyrae4@hotmail.com ; archbishop@archtoronto.org ;
> barry.shaw@forces.gc.ca ; bewerbung@rothschild.com ;
> bishopfh@rcdiocese-calgary.ab.
> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 11:44 PM
> Subject: I SEE NOTHING HAS CHANGED WITHIN YOUR CORRUPT FEDERAL
> ORGANIZATION
>
>
> Bob Paulson,
> Commissioner of RCMP
> Canada.
>
> Mr. Paulson,
>
> I write once again after the disappointing bullshit letter I received
> from Inspector Potts, and then my discussion with Sgt. Shardlow
> yesterday in Okotoks over assaults, false arrest, murder, all kinds of
> nasty things you are responsible for setting people up using your "
> interception of private communication ".
> You people neglect doing your duty here and as I see what is coming
> out in the media, makes one wonder just how much death you have
> covered up over the years.
> Afraid the truth is coming out is what it seems,hmmmm. And as far as
> your arresting officer Degroot goes he seems to have a lot of contact
> with Juiliann Barna Reid, as I asked Shardlow - does this abusing
> woman work for you????????? Perhaps you could look into this and get
> back to me.
>
> Honestly for men you have no balls, just like Harper - has god got
> your balls also??????? And then you have your women godly agents who I
> am thinking took your balls cuz they are as cruel as you men. Now is
> that not shameful.?????? Just as Alison Redford ignored me when she
> was justice minister.
>
> You people do not care about children, woman or men in your game of
> human abuse for profit. You always have the same excuse.
>
> Now Mr. Paulson, since you are at the top, do you condone these lies
> and abuse of children, woman and men ???????
>
> I do have some other concerns from many years ago involving the
> okotoks RCMP putting the blame on 1 officer, an Indian, are you racist
> Mr. Paulson, do you condone white supremacy and genocide upon the
> Indian people and then every other race by thair own ????? Just as the
> security guard who assaulted me - thair excuse was he just got out of
> security school.
>
> Also Mr. Paulson do you carry the dead peasant insurance upon your
> workers???????? how does one find out if this type of insurance is on
> people and who has used it?????????
>
> And let's not forget the abuse on human life by religion, sit's at the
> top on the abuse game for profit, would you not say???????
>
> Now Mr. Paulson, do you feel this is right what has been done, the
> medical abuse, assaults, false arrests and so much more I would like
> to discuss in person.????????????
>
> REMEMBER IT'S ALL INDIAN LAND THAT YOU PERSONS UNDER THE SUPREMACY OF
> GOD, KILLED CHILDREN, WOMAN AND MEN FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, AND REMEMBER
> INDIANS OF THE LANDS COME IN ALL RACES. SHAME ON YOU ALL CORRUPT
> CHIEFS KILLING CHILDREN IN SO MANY WAYS, ESPECIALLY YOU CONDONED
> PEDOPHILE LAIR.
>
>
> Thank you
> Robin Reid
> Red Nations
> PPOF
>
>
> http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/
> 8-151342.html
>
> http://www.calgaryherald.com/
> eze+guns+from+High+River+
>
> RCMP revealed Thursday that officers have seized a "substantial ...
> that we control, simply because of what they are," said Sgt. Brian
> Topham
>
> http://www.canada.com/story_
> 7f14ec39&sponsor=
>
> Some Alberta RCMP Disciplinary Cases in 2005-06 (Year to Date)
>
> - Sgt. Brian Topham -- reprimand and forfeiture of 10 days' pay.
>
> Topham, who served at the Fox Creek detachment between 2002 and 2004,
> made insensitive and degrading comments about women in the presence of
> a female civilian employee.
>
> On another occasion, Topham said "1974 was the worst year in the RCMP
> because that is when the RCMP let women in the force."
>
> The allegations also involved stereotypical comments about aboriginals
> and people from Newfoundland made in the presence of officers who had
> those backgrounds.
>
>
> http://christopherdiarmani.
> high-river-rcmp-looters-
>
> http://www.calgarysun.com/
> -entered-his-home-three-times-
> rms
>
> Greg Kvisle. CENTURY 21 Foothills Real Estate. Bldg. F, 1103 18 Street
> SE. High River, ABT1V 2A9. Office: 403-652-2121. Cell: 403-601-3533
>
> Ken Braat Associate,Realtor. Century 21 Foothills Real Estate 1103 F
> 18 Street SE, T1V 2A9 High River, Alberta 403-601-2070.
>
> High River homeowner upset police entered his home three times after
> flood hit and seized antique firearms
> 205
>
> By Bill Kaufmann ,Calgary Sun
>
> First posted: Friday, August 09, 2013 03:42 PM MDT | Updated: Friday,
> August 09, 2013 04:59 PM MDT
>
>
> The RCMP's post-flood seizure of two family heirloom firearms that
> were hidden in his home is an outrageous trespass, says a High River
> man.
>
> The Mounties made three trips into the home of Greg Kvisle before
> seizing the guns, a 1912 Winchester long-barreled shotgun and a
> 50-year-old .303 rifle in the days following June's deluge.
>
> "My grandfather passed them down to my dad and when he passed away we
> brought them here for safekeeping," said Kvisle, adding neither weapon
> has been fired in decades.
>
> "It's a sentimental thing for me."
>
> He said both guns were stashed in a corner of his basement in a
> storage area beneath boxes and far from any ammunition.
>
> "They weren't visible and were secure as far as I saw it," said Kvisle.
>
> His street wasn't impacted by the flooding and hadn't been evacuated,
> but Kvisle said he was in Calgary when the water hit its height, and
> was barred from returning home for nine days.
>
> Once home, his suspicions that the two weapons might have been seized
> were quickly confirmed.
>
> About half of his neighbours had remained home, including those next
> door who kept an eye on his property and helped Mounties enter his
> home three times, said Kvisle.
>
> "I just don't understand why they were searching for them," he said.
>
> "They're supposed to be protecting our home, not looting it."
>
> Kvisle said he had no trouble getting back his weapons from RCMP
> officers, whom he called courteous and professional.
>
> But the fact Mounties had taken hidden guns from his home on a
> partly-populated street police were patrolling rankles him.
>
> "What's next?" he said.
>
> The Mounties said they seized firearms to prevent them from falling
> into the hands of burglars in vacated, unsecured areas.
>
> Kvisle's guns were situated in open view because it would have taken
> very little to uncover them, said RCMP Sgt. Josee Valiquette.
>
> "It could be in plain view under a bed, in a closet - somewhere
> somebody could hide," said Valiquette.
>
> "If they happened to open a closet, it is in plain sight...these
> firearms were inappropriately secured."
>
> Kvisle said he's been told a civilian group that oversees the RCMP is
> reviewing his case.
>
> "I hope we get some answers," he said.
>
> bill.kaufmann@sunmedia.ca
>
> Raising a Little Hell- Lively Debate Provokes Crowd
>
> By Erin Hatfield
>
> "If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your
> world is all screwed up, rearrange it."
>
> The 1979 Trooper song Raise a Little Hell blared on the speakers at
> the 8th Hussars Sports Center Friday evening as people filed in to
> watch the Fundy candidates debate the issues. It was an accurate, if
> unofficial, theme song for the debate.
>
> The crowd of over 200 spectators was dwarfed by the huge arena, but as
> they chose their seats, it was clear the battle lines were drawn.
> Supporters of Conservative candidate Rob Moore naturally took the blue
> chairs on the right of the rink floor while John Herron's Liberalswent
> left. There were splashes of orange, supporters of NDP Pat Hanratty,
> mixed throughout. Perhaps the loudest applause came from a row towards
> the back, where supporters of independent candidate David Amos sat.
>
> The debate was moderated by Leo Melanson of CJCW Radio and was
> organized by the Sussex Valley Jaycees. Candidates wereasked a barrage
> of questions bypanelists Gisele McKnight of the Kings County Record
> and Lisa Spencer of CJCW.
>
> Staying true to party platforms for the most part, candidates
> responded to questions about the gun registry, same sex marriage, the
> exodus of young people from the Maritimes and regulated gas prices.
> Herron and Moore were clear competitors,constantly challenging each
> other on their answers and criticizing eachothers' party leaders.
> Hanratty flew under the radar, giving short, concise responses to the
> questions while Amos provided some food for thought and a bit of comic
> relief with quirky answers. "I was raised with a gun," Amos said in
> response to the question of thenational gun registry. "Nobody's
> getting mine and I'm not paying 10 cents for it."
>
> Herron, a Progressive Conservative MP turned Liberal, veered from his
> party'splatform with regard to gun control. "It was ill advised but
> well intentioned," Herron said. "No matter what side of the house I am
> on, I'm voting against it." Pat Hanratty agreed there were better
> places for the gun registry dollars to be spent.Recreational hunters
> shouldn't have been penalized by this gun registry," he said.
>
> The gun registry issues provoked the tempers of Herron and Moore. At
> one point Herron got out of his seat and threw a piece of paper in
> front of Moore. "Read that," Herron said to Moore, referring to the
> voting record of Conservative Party leader Steven Harper. According to
> Herron, Harper voted in favour of the registry on the first and second
> readings of the bill in 1995. "He voted against it when it counted, at
> final count," Moore said. "We needa government with courage to
> register sex offenders rather than register the property of law
> abiding citizens."
>
> The crowd was vocal throughout the evening, with white haired men and
> women heckling from the Conservative side. "Shut up John," one woman
> yelled. "How can you talk about selling out?" a man yelled whenHerron
> spoke about his fear that the Conservatives are selling farmers out.
>
> Although the Liberal side was less vocal, Kings East MLA Leroy
> Armstrong weighed in at one point. "You're out of touch," Armstrong
> yelled to Moore from the crowd when the debate turned to the cost of
> post-secondary education. Later in the evening Amos challenged
> Armstrong to a public debate of their own. "Talk is cheap. Any time,
> anyplace," Armstrong responded.
>
> As the crowd made its way out of the building following the debate,
> candidates worked the room. They shook hands with well-wishers and
> fielded questions from spectators-all part of the decision-making
> process for the June 28 vote.
>
> Cutline - David Amos, independent candidate in Fundy, with some of his
> favourite possessions-motorcycles.
>
> McKnight/KCR
>
> The Unconventional Candidate
>
> David Amos Isn't Campaigning For Your Vote, But..
>
> By Gisele McKnight
>
> FUNDY-He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his
> wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone
> that rings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."
>
> Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot-David Amos.
>
> The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife
> and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from
> running for office in Canada.
>
> One has only to be at least 18, a Canadian citizen and not be in jail
> to meet Elections Canada requirements.
>
> When it came time to launch his political crusade, Amos chose his
> favourite place to do so-Fundy.
>
> Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his
> dissatisfaction with politicians.
>
> "I've become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he
> said. "The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."
>
> The journey that eventually led Amos to politics began in Sussex in
> 1987. He woke up one morning disillusioned with life and decided he
> needed to change his life.
>
> "I lost my faith in mankind," he said. "People go through that
> sometimes in midlife."
>
> So Amos, who'd lived in Sussex since 1973, closed his Four Corners
> motorcycle shop, paid his bills and hit the road with Annie, his 1952
> Panhead motorcycle.
>
> "Annie and I rode around for awhile (three years, to be exact)
> experiencing the milk of human kindness," he said. "This is how you
> renew your faith in mankind - you help anyone you can, you never ask
> for anything, but you take what they offer."
>
> For those three years, they offered food, a place to sleep, odd jobs
> and conversation all over North America.
>
> Since he and Annie stopped wandering, he has married, fathered a son
> and a daughter and become a house-husband - Mr. Mom, as he calls
> himself.
>
> He also describes himself in far more colourful terms-a motorcyclist
> rather than a biker, a "fun-loving, free-thinking, pig-headed
> individual," a "pissed-off Maritimer" rather than an activist, a proud
> Canadian and a "wild colonial boy."
>
> Ironically, the man who is running for office has never voted in his life.
>
> "But I have no right to criticize unless I offer my name," he said.
> "It's alright to bitch in the kitchen, but can you walk the walk?"
>
> Amos has no intention of actively campaigning.
>
> "I didn't appreciate it when they (politicians) pounded on my door
> interrupting my dinner," he said. "If people are interested, they can
> call me. I'm not going to drive my opinions down their throats."
>
> And he has no campaign budget, nor does he want one.
>
> "I won't take any donations," he said. "Just try to give me some. It's
> not about money. It goes against what I'm fighting about."
>
> What he's fighting for is the discussion of issues - tainted blood,
> the exploitation of the Maritimes' gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to
> name a few.
>
> "The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs - fishing,
> farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he said. "I'm
> death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it
> (NAFTA) out the window.
>
> NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an
> easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico.
>
> Amos disagrees with the idea that a vote for him is a wasted vote.
>
> "There are no wasted votes," he said. "I want people like me,
> especially young people, to pay attention and exercise their right.
> Don't necessarily vote for me, but vote."
>
> Although.if you're going to vote anyway, Amos would be happy to have
> your X by his name.
>
> "I want people to go into that voting booth, see my name, laugh and
> say, 'what the hell.'"
>
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