Const. Arthur Dalman ordered a bystander to delete a video of the arrest of Indigenous man Dale Culver, judge finds
A Prince George RCMP officer has been found guilty of obstructing justice for ordering a bystander to delete a video of a 2017 arrest of an Indigenous man who later died in custody.
Two pathologists studied Culver's cause of death and came away with conflicting findings. One performed an autopsy on Culver and determined he died due to several factors, including “blunt force head trauma.” The second pathologist reviewed that report and concluded that Culver died of a heart attack after struggling with officers while high on methamphetamine.
Moe testified that the officer, later identified as Dalman, asked to view the video and then tried to snatch Moe's phone away. He said Dalman started getting “really aggressive with me, basically telling me that he was going to arrest me for obstruction.” Moe told the court he then deleted the video in front of the officers because he wanted the interaction to be over. He had a history of three criminal convictions and didn't want to end up in jail, he said.He told the court that he asked to see the video on Moe's phone at the instruction of his supervisors because they believed a police officer had been assaulted and they needed to collect evidence.
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