National Police Federation president Brian Sauvé pushes back against those who say Mounties’ mistakes may have contributed to the shooting
the head of the RCMP’s national union, says criticism of police actions connected to the Nova Scotia mass shooting that left 22 people deadhave been unfair, and that the force’s handling of the initial attack was an “almost textbook response.”
The inquiry, known as the Mass Casualty Commission, rejected the union’s motion, and three RCMP officers testified and were cross-examined last week. The commission began public hearings on Feb. 22. But there remains a lot of anger in Nova Scotia over how the RCMP handled the shooting response. The three RCMP officers who testified in the public inquiry last week, all of whom were first on the scene in Portapique, N.S., told the commission they were frustrated by a lack of clarity around who was in charge the night the attack began, and that they didn’t know what the plan was to find the gunman or his victims.
The family of shooting victim Heather O’Brien has accused RCMP officers of lying about the details of Ms. O’Brien’s final moments. They produced data from a FitBit watch she was wearing that suggested her heart continued beating for hours after police decided she was beyond saving and called off an air ambulance.
While police actions during and prior to the mass shooting are a focus of the public inquiry, there has been no discipline to date for any RCMP members who played roles in the response to the rampage. That includes two officers who shot up a firehall in Onslow, N.S., that was being used as a shelter for residents during the hunt for the gunman.
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