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>Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 10:53:03 -0500
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>From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Tsuu T'ina Reserve: Inquest
>
>Inquiry into RCMP shooting of aboriginal mother and her son
> starts today Monday February 1, 1999
> CAROL HARRINGTON
>CALGARY (CP) - A fatality inquiry into the shooting deaths of an
>aboriginal mother and her son by RCMP was scheduled to begin today
>amid allegations of racism. Family and friends of Connie and Ty Jacobs say
>they are frustrated not knowing what happened that snowy night last March
>22 when a veteran RCMP officer shot the mother and nine-year-old boy. "I
>just want some answers," Cynthia Applegarth said of the deaths of her
>sister and nephew. Natives across Canada are affected by this and are angry
>in a lot of ways, because the people who are supposed to be protecting us
>are killing us," Applegarth said.
>
>The inquiry headed by provincial court Judge Thomas Goodson will try
>to determine how a domestic dispute on the Tsuu T�ina reserve
>southwest of Calgary dissolved into a deadly exchange of gunfire
>between Jacobs and Const. Dave Voller. A tribal police officer had called
>Voller because social workers were threatened by Connie Jacobs with a gun
>after they tried to remove six children from her house following an
>alcohol-fuelled domestic dispute. Voller said Jacobs shot at him from the
>front of the ramshackle home.
>
>The constable returned fire with a single blast of his 12-gauge shotgun.
>When the smoke cleared, Jacobs� body lay crumpled on the front porch,
>pierced by four shotgun pellets. Two pellets also hit Ty, her eldest son,
>who had been standing behind his mother. The deaths angered aboriginal
>people across the country, a sentiment
>that turned to outrage after an RCMP inquiry cleared the 17-year
>veteran of any wrongdoing.
>
>"The level of aboriginal victimization by the RCMP is alarming and
>cannot be explained by anything other than a deadly form of systemic
>race discrimination," Phil Fontaine, national chief of the Assembly of
>First Nations, said after the RCMP report. "In the last 20 years in
>Canada, more than half of all the people who have died violently at the
>hands of RCMP officers have been aboriginal."
>
>The inquiry under Goodson, himself an aboriginal, can�t lay blame. He can
>only make recommendations that may deter such a tragedy in the future. In
>a rare move for a fatality inquiry in Alberta, CBC Newsworld was given
>permission to televise the proceedings across the country. The inquiry is
>being held at a community centre on the reserve rather than the usual venue
>of provincial court. The first phase is scheduled to continue through Feb.
>19. Hearings are
>also set for March 8-26 and April 12-23.
>
>� The Canadian Press, 1999
>
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>January 29, 1999 Shocked cops seize RV contents
> By PETER SMITH, CALGARY SUN
>
>CALGARY -- Police who stopped a recreational vehicle on the
>Tsuu T'ina reserve were shocked to find it full of child
>pornography and the elderly driver concealing a stun gun and
>pepper spray. But the 73-year-old driver was back on the road last night
>since he was released on bail.
>
>Investigators said the driver has been in the Calgary area for
>several weeks, and other police forces have been called in to
>track the man's movements. The RV was stopped for trespassing on the
>reserve, said Tsuu T'ina Nation Police Chief Barry Whistlecraft.
>"Our search revealed a quantity of child pornography, pornographic video
>tapes and a television and video cassette recorder and other viewing
>equipment in the back," added Whistlecraft.
>
>"We also found an electric stun gun and containers of pepper
>spray, which are prohibited weapons." Police fear what they found --
>especially the concealed stun gun and pepper spray -- could indicate
>someone was driving around Calgary trying to entice children into the back
>of the RV. Leonard J. Perret is charged with possession of child
>pornography and possession of prohibited weapons.
>
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>Monday, February 1, 1999 Answers wanted Jacobs inquiry begins today
> By NOVA PIERSON, CALGARY SUN
>
>Family of a mother and son shot dead by an RCMP officer hope
>an inquiry beginning today will provide answers as to how the
>tragedy happened. The fatality inquiry into the deaths of Connie Jacobs,
>37, and her nine-year-old son Ty is being held on the Tsuu T'ina Nation,
>where they were shot last March. "With the inquiry coming up, it brings up
>all these emotions again,"said Cynthia Applegarth, Connie's older sister.
>Applegarth and brother Brian Lambert say they want answers into what
>happened March 22, 1998 when Okotoks RCMP Const.Dave Voller shot the two
>with a single blast from a shotgun. A tribal police officer had called
>Voller because social workers were threatened by Connie Jacobs with a gun
>after they tried to remove six children from her house following an
>alcohol-fuelled
>domestic dispute.
>
>Voller said Jacobs shot at him from the front of the ramshackle home. The
>constable returned fire with a single blast of his 12-gauge shotgun. When
>the smoke cleared, Jacobs' body lay crumpled on the front porch, pierced by
>four shotgun pellets. Two pellets also hit Ty, her eldest son, who had been
>standing behind his mother.
>"We're just keeping open minds and hoping some truth will be
>reflected in the inquiry," said Applegarth. Lambert is pleased the inquiry
>is finally going ahead. "Let's get it going, find some answers and deal
>with each obstacle as it comes up," Lambert said.
>And while Connie and Ty's family deal with the inquiry -- the first
>session of which runs until Feb. 19 -- they're still grieving the loss of
>the mother and son. "I keep thinking of Ty, what kind of a little boy he
>was and what he would be doing," said Applegarth. "He would have been 10."
>Applegarth said she remembers Connie as spontaneous, a woman who focused on
>the positives in life. "She lived for the love of her children and her love
>for them. In that sense I think she had an honourable death," said
>Applegarth. "But on the other hand, I don't think it had to turn out that
>way. It
>could have gone a lot of other ways. It didn't have to end so
>tragically." Judge Thomas Goodson, who sits in High Prairie and is
>Alberta's first aboriginal judge, will preside over the inquiry, expected
>to last two months. He can make recommendations on how to prevent such
>incidents, but in a fatality inquiry cannot assign blame. CBC was granted
>permission by Goodson to televise the inquiry
>live on its Newsworld channel.
>
>Voller was cleared of any criminal wrongdoings in the shooting last fall
>after an independent review.
>
>Connie's three other children, except for first-born Yolanda who
>has children of her own, remain with their father Hardy Jacobs.
>"He's lost a wife and son. He has to get through that," said Nation
>spokesman Peter Manywounds. Manywounds said the Tsuu T'ina Nation was
>deeply affected by the shooting, which left unanswered questions about the
>system and how this happened. "We would hope based on what Judge Thomas
>Goodson hears he'll bring forward some recommendations to make sure it
>doesn't happen again -- not just here but anywhere."
>
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>
>
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> <= we're not machines you know =>
> we're not going to fall over in rows Dr. King - On
>The Beach - 1959
>
> < the more we do to you, the less you
> seem to believe we are doing it >
> Dr. Joseph Mengele
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