Jeremy Ettawakapow holds a picture of his father, John, who died in 2019 while he was detained in a cell in the RCMP detachment in The Pas, Man. He thinks his dad would still be alive today if he hadn't been put there
The inquest into the death of John Ettawakapow began Monday with a video of the 54-year-old dying in an RCMP holding cell, showing him possibly smothered to death by a fellow detainee's leg.Jeremy Ettawakapow holds a picture of his father, John, who died in 2019 while he was detained in a cell in the RCMP detachment in The Pas, Man.
The cell's security video showed how at 8:13 p.m., one of the men moved and put his leg over Ettawakapow's neck. From that point, Ettawakapow is seen lifting his arm a few more times on camera, grabbing toward his neck. Paramedics are called, who attempt to revive Ettawakapow, but they eventually leave and the video ends with a lifeless Ettawakapow, alone in the cell.
He plans to address the inquest at the end of the five days to tell the court what his father meant to him.
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