Chantel Moore was killed Thursday when police arrived at her home in response to a request to check on her well-being
Chantel Moore is shown in this undated photo posted on a GoFundMe memorial page, Support for family of Chantel Moore.One of Chantel Moore’s grandmothers says her granddaughter’s shooting death in New Brunswick isn’t the first time she has lost a family member to police violence.
Moore, 26, died Thursday when police arrived at her home in response to a request to check on her well-being. Edmundston police say their officer encountered a woman with a knife making threats. She was shot and died at the scene. “We’ve had that happen here in our own country for years now and that was my first thought, that this is racially motivated.”
She’s also been called a “dumb, lazy Indian,” she said, even though she has held a job since age 14 and pays her taxes every year.“I don’t go around hating people, I’ve never attacked a white person because of how they treated me,” she said.Moore was set to begin classes at a community college when she was killed, Martin said.
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