The man died on Sept. 17 following an encounter he had with police officers at a hotel in southeast Calgary.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time. Jon Wells , a member of southern Alberta's Blood Tribe has been identified as the man who died in police custody following a confrontation at the Carriage House Hotel and Conference Centre on Sept. 17, 2024.
In an update on the case on Wednesday, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team said that during the encounter, which lasted for several minutes, the man was unarmed, was acting “in a confused fashion” and appeared to be trying to pick things up off the floor that didn’t exist.When an officer pointed his stun gun and told him to leave the hotel, the man raised his hands and said, “I don’t want to die.
Eugene Creighton, the commissioner of the Indian National Finals Rodeo and a distant relative of Wells, described him as a champion steer wrestler, “a big guy” and “a gentle giant.” She is calling for First Nations oversight of the investigations into such incidents and more funding to support policing in Indigenous communities.
“We welcome the oversight, we welcome the transparency,” Neufeld said. “I would just ask folks to suspend judgement and let the investigation take its course.”
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