This screenshot from a video posted by a Kinngait resident on Facebook shows the moment when a man is knocked to the ground with the open door of an RCMP truck. The Ottawa Police Service’s investigation into the incident concluded the contact was unintentional and that the arrest was lawful. (Screenshot from Facebook)
“This does not meet the threshold of a criminal offence of an assault or assault with a weapon under the Criminal Code of Canada as the applied force was unintentional”
The Ottawa Police Service has concluded that the June 1 arrest of a Kinngait man was lawful. The incident sparked national attention after a video showed the man being knocked down by the open door of an RCMP vehicle.
Clyde River’s Ilisaqsivik Society has been working to deliver a full turkey dinner to everyone in the community during the Nunavut’s territory-wide COVID-19 lockdown, with support from Baffinland Iron Mines & Arctic Co-operatives Ltd. “We’re getting ready to send out the remaining turkeys and other dinner items, and hope to have them delivered to your homes as soon as possible,” the society wrote in a Facebook post on Monday, Nov. 30. (Photo courtesy of Ilisaqsivik/Facebook)