Thread by @sunnshiiny

A simple explanation that there wasn’t enough evidence to charge people with a hate crime is one thing. Offering apologetics for being ignorant of what a tiki torch stands for is quite another.

Antifa activists identified several prominent white supremacists in attendance.

https://twitter.com/edmontonjournal/status/1366841778528215042

There is no doubt in anyone’s mind, including the Chief of Police, what this rally was about and who was marching.

Unless you live in your mom’s basement with no wifi, it’s crystal clear this was a racist rally.

Four officers punched in the head is not a peaceful rally. In any stretch of the imagination. Even if it was only one attendee. Doesn’t matter. Four police officers were attacked.

Can’t imagine they and their families are happy about being devalued, & their injuries minimized.

Edmonton has a significant problem with local law enforcement. The Chief of Police is offering excuses and apologies for neo-Nazis, members of a banned domestic terrorist group, and minimizing the other white supremacist and Christian Nationalist groups that held 2 rallies.

The Edmonton Police Commission recently landed in their own hot water very recently. Being told taking the word of the Chief wasn’t acceptable under the circumstances of an internal sexual assault complaint.

edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new…

In the age of MeToo! we still have a Chief of Police and the Edmonton Police Commission completely disregarding a serious internal crime of sexual assault. It’s up to the Alberta Law Enforcement Review Board to publicly chastise them and direct them to reconsider the issue.

How the Police Commission came to the conclusion of rejecting an investigation and formal complaint be reopened is stunning in 2020/2021. How a Chief can represent the complainant as a vexatious woman even more so. The sexism in the statement is repugnant.

Vexatious is a particularly harsh word for a woman reporting sexual abuse.

It’s related to the word shrew and is used to describe an evil troublemaker who is female.

That’s the Edmonton Chief of Police describing a woman reporting sexual abuse as vexatious. That’s offensive!

And we wonder why women don’t report sexual abuse to the police?!

Who would have thought such archaic and backwards beliefs could be offered by a modern city’s Police Chief? And that the Police Commission would accept the term vexatious as a descriptor of the complainant?

So who is on the Police Commission? I have a hard time believing this diverse board would categorically accept the request to deny the sexual abuse case be reopened.

Especially since the current Chief of Police Dale McFee wasn’t the Chief when the original case was filed in 2018. McFee didn’t commence his position until February 2019. So the information presented by him was third hand information by the time it got to the Police Commission.

Don’t forget the recent discovery of communications lead with a family connection to anti mask rallies.

https://twitter.com/sunnshiiny/status/1363565743669841920

Needless to say, there is enough controversy to be concerned.

Something stinks in Edmonton law enforcement. It’s a little too rotten to ignore.

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Citizens are NOT going to sit idly by while tiki torch wielding white supremacists and Christian Nationalists try to intimidate our community. Nor will citizens accept the tacit approval and apologetics of law enforcement.

This needs to be addressed imminently.