http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonNews/es.es-02-12-0039.html Edmonton Sun (Canada) Friday, February 12, 1999 Beating of native OK by cop watchdogs By CP LONDON, Ont. --Police officers who beat and kicked an aboriginal protester almost to death during an infamous skirmish at a provincial park four years ago will face no charges. "There's no question" Cecil George was injured during his arrest, Ontario's Special Investigations Unit said yesterday. But there's also no "reliable and credible evidence" that they used excessive force, the agency said. Unit director Peter Tinsley also said there was no way to establish which officers were involved in the 1995 altercation at Ipperwash Provincial Park because it took place in the dark and the officers wore "hard tac (tactical) gear" that obscured their faces. During the same standoff, police shot and killed protester Dudley George. "Given one of our First Nations band members was killed, and another beaten so savagely it was thought he had died, this report is outrageous," regional Chief Tom Bressette said in a news release. ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use."
