Neqotkuk First Nation wants Indigenous-led policing agency after fatal RCMP shooting
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Chief Ross Perley says the community is hurting and feeling anxious following Bronson Paul's death.
The chief of Neqotkuk First Nation wants provincial and federal support to establish an Indigenous-led policing agency on the reserve, following the death of a community member who was shot by an RCMP officer.
Chief Ross Perley says the community is hurting and feeling anxious following Bronson Paul’s death.
“And there’s fear of the RCMP, and there’s anger too,” directed at the policing agency, Perley said in an interview Thursday.
Paul died on Jan. 18 after RCMP officers responded to what police called a “domestic dispute” at a residence in the First Nations community in northwestern New Brunswick, near the province’s border with Maine.
Perley said the RCMP failed to follow a protocol that calls for them to request assistance from the First Nation’s council, outreach team or tribal security, who are skilled at de-escalating such situations.
The chief said he has closed the RCMP detachment in the community following the shooting “and it’s going to stay closed indefinitely.”
Perley and his council are calling on the RCMP commissioner to acknowledge that the police agency has a problem with systemic racism, and they are calling for Premier Susan Holt and Prime Minister Mark Carney to support the establishment of an Indigenous policing service on the reserve.
“We don’t feel the RCMP has done a great job in our communities and we think now is the time to transition away from that,” he said.
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