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24 Oct, 34 tweets, 16 min read
1/ Ok I am back. It has been a rough few days. We have decided to try to sell our house in this market. We can’t stay here when our neighbours have a personal cop that they can call anytime they want to complain about us. Do any of you have a personal cop? Matt’s father is a...
2/ carpenter in Ontario and we’re trying to get him to come out to @StrathcoCounty to help us prepare our house to sell. We’re hostages in our own home in @Canada and have to flee somewhere away from @StrathcoCounty RCMP. But I’m going to stop complaining for a minute and call...
3/ out some people and groups. @CBCEdmonton and @ctvedmonton you both took press releases from the RCMP and ran with them. SHAME ON YOU! Without you, the @rcmpgrcpolice could not do to us what they have done. @YEGlifer you have 12K followers. Before you say you are shocked why...
4/ don’t you find out what happened. Shame on you. @RodFrank12 we reached out to you as citizens of your community desperate for your help. You dismissed us. You knew that @StrathcoCounty employees helped harass Matt and you did nothing. Shame on you! Evil on thrives when good...
5/ people do nothing. Make no mistake these @rcmpgrcpolice commanders in Edmonton are not good people. You all saw how the Alberta CO acted at the Amber Tuccaro press conference. You saw what he said about #SystemicRacism. Do you think the commanders working under him are any...
6/ different? @TomEngel18 you called for Zablocki to resign or be fired. We need your help now. By the way, if any of you know of a good lawyer in the #Edmonton area please let us know. // I’ll just now carry on from where I was yesterday. I appreciate the comments of support...
7/ and encouragement and many of you asked what happened to Matt’s shoulder. Well he’s seen many specialists but recently had an MRI. It appears he has a significant injury to the long head of his bicep. If I get an image of the MRI I will upload it here. And yes his injury was..
8/ due to our neighbour grabbing his arm before Matt punched him. This is so bizarre that you swear you are going crazy. Matt has to perform double duty travelling to specialist appointments and going to court where the victim is the person who’s causing him to go to his...
9/ specialist appointments. You can’t make this up. This is what is happening. And no the @rcmpgrcpolice never considered Matt a victim of assault and that he was just defending himself. @geoff_buxcey @primetimecrime is this how you guys did police work in your day?
10/ @CommrRCMPGRC is this police work that you are proud of? Just as proud of this as you are of @RCMPNS of their handling of the #NovaScotia dispute? I would ask you to resign but you are beyond shame. You know we have reached out to you but since Zablocki is one of our...
11/ tormentors clearly everything that we are suffering is done with your consent. I am just soothed by the fact that your tenure as @rcmpgrcpolice boss will be forever known as a dismal failure where hopefully the @YourAlberta government finally gets rid of you people for good..
12/ sorry I keep going back and forth. I’m new to this whole twitter thing. Anyways after Matt was arrested in our home he was put on conditions not to communicate with our neighbours. It was strangely written as listed an exemption where to be within range of the neighbours to..
13/ and from the house. Matt checked with other cops who informed him that the form was defective. Anyways we noticed that our neighbour had a surveillance camera which covered the street where Matt got into it with our neighbour. Matt knew he couldn’t go to our neighbour’s...
14/ property but he wanted to prove that the neighbour had a video camera. He went to the neighbour’s side of the street in range to take a picture of the camera and he did just that. Police usually call that collecting evidence but not the @rcmpgrcpolice that’s evidence of a...
15/ crime. So right on time the neighbour’s personal cop storms into our house with no warrant and arrests Matt for taking a picture of the neighbour’s camera. They said that he breached some condition that was an exception to a condition. In other words it was complete BS...
New charge laid against Strathcona RCMP officer facing assault charge cbc.ca/news/canada/ed… 15/ here was that charge and as @Twitter normally does, Matt was burned at the stake and he became another poster child for RCMP bad apples. Let me just say again @CBC shame on you!
16/ All you in @Twitter land who humiliated Matt and our family shame on you!!! And certainly @CommrRCMPGRC I save my most anger and contempt for you. You know exactly what your minions have done to Matt and our family and you let it happen. Just save us all the energy and...
17/ just resign. Nobody wants you here anymore. The first time you opened your mouth in the Senate @KristaCarle chose to end her life. That will be your legacy. Back to the story. The day Matt was arrested he was taken to Leduc detachment. I called around to Matt’s friends in...
18/ the @rcmpgrcpolice. Yes he does still have some. One in particular was able to help but I will get to that later. People told me that they had no reason to hold Matt and that legally he should be released at any moment. That didn’t happen. They kept him there all day...
18/ I called Leduc RCMP but was met with contempt. I now know what it’s like for these people who’s loved ones are arrested and you don’t know what’s going on. Most of you “law abiding” citizens may never know how helpless this feeling is. Not knowing if your loved one is even...
19/ alive. How inhumane must you be to not only refuse to allow a wife to talk to her husband but threat her with such disrespect. What happened in your life or what did the @rcmpgrcpolice do to you to make you who you are? Don’t answer because I know what they did to take away..
20/ your humanity. They turned you basically into a new person. A robot of sorts who only sees the protect of the @rcmpgrcpolice above all else. It do you know who’s fault this is the reason the @rcmpgrcpolice is such a disaster? Each and every one of you 38 million Canadians...
21/ Yes we are all dealing with #COVID19 and it has wrecked everything but Canadians have allowed the @rcmpgrcpolice to do what does for decades. People only care when the @rcmpgrcpolice comes for their family. Otherwise people are just happy that it is not them. Is that the...
22/ country you want to live in? Raise your kids in? Where we fear the national police force like some modern day Gestapo. Guess what Canadians thats what we have and we are all to blame for it. Me too. Matt makes a good salary that was until this fairly safe. I could look away..
23/ be happy for those times when his bosses were not harassing him. But when we ignore our principles there is always a price to pay and I’m not giving up my principles and staying silent anymore. Sorry that I am getting off track back to the story. So Matt was in Leduc...
24/ all day and into the night. I didn’t know you could do that in @Canada. Finally other @rcmpgrcpolice members started speaking out. They sent dozens of emails to @CommrRCMPGRC. Those of you following this that sent emails can you attach them to this thread? It would be...
25/ appreciated. Calls stormed into the @rcmpgrcpolice to release Matt. Did they? No and you have truly understand how pigheaded and indignant these people are to understand why they didn’t. Just to humiliate him they kept him for about 27 hours. Hey lawyers out there is that...
26/ even legal? It’s not but anyways that’s what they did. Matt had a bail hearing the next day but this is where it gets interesting. Matt was represented by a previous supervisor of his in the @rcmpgrcpolice. Matt was released with no new conditions which makes you wonder...
27/ why he was kept all night. He must have been a real danger. Or of course they just wanted to humiliate and demean him because you know they can. Who’s going to stop them? Matt was released unconditionally broken, beate, scarred (emotionally) but things were going ☢️ inside...
28/ the @rcmpgrcpolice. How could this happen? What a member be mistreated and humiliated like this? No, how could one RCMP member represent another at a bail hearing. This member told me before hand and this should be a lesson for all you Mounties out there he said he was...
29/ bound by the RCMP Act to uphold the law and the administration of justice and he said that here justice called for Matt’s release and the member got Matt released. These things don’t happen in the @rcmpgrcpolice as RCMP officers don’t step out of line. Well I guess some...
30/ do. And the @rcmpgrcpolice did not take this lying down. Not just the RCMP but Alberta Justice. They colluded to try to charge this member for illegally practicing law. Yes that is their fucking priority. So it’s not just the RCMP the problem is also their “partners.”
31/ so this member’s boss sends him a letter threatening a code of conduct and the usual @rcmpgrcpolice threats. He is also off work and do you want to know how they gave it to him? They drove from @BCRCMP headquarters drove to his house in @cityofcoquitlam and shoved it...
32/ through his front door. What a bunch of pathetic and little people but like I said Canadians this is what we all deserve because we never demanded better. I’m going to stop for now. I’m going to get that threatening letter and post it in here and continue this saga. Thank you

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24 Oct
Assault charge laid against Strathcona County RCMP officer edmonton.ctvnews.ca/assault-charge… 1/ Let’s try this again. This is hard. This is the story where Matt was charged with assault. The way the @RCMP wrote this, everyone thought Matt assaulted me. I was humiliated. I got calls and...
2/ messages from friends and family in Ontario wanting to know what happened. I even got a call from my realtor. Imagine trying to tell everyone you know that what the @RCMP hinted happened didn’t happen. The comments about Matt on the @CBC articles were awful. We were isolated.
3/ This is what happened. Our neighbours were having a party out front of their house. Alcohol was involved and some of the partygoers were drinking on public property. They were minding their own business so it really didn’t bother us. But it started to get late and as the...
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23 Oct
2/ my husband engaged in the yellow stripe movement supported by NPF. The Strathcona County RCMP detachment commander took personal offence to the issue and threatened him with a code of conduct. This issue was already decided by commissioner Bob Paulson and widely known
3/ My husband removed the stripe on his pants to support unionization and was threatened with a code of conduct. We didn't expect that two years later his employer would have him sitting in a cell.
4/ My husband was dealing with stress from our personal lives, medical issues, and this threat from his employer. He took medical leave to work on his health for himself and our family.
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