Racism claim pits TV host vs. police in war of words

up by Deputy Chief Shawna Coxon.

“We are accountable,” she wrote on Twitter. “The whole event (incl. the traffic infraction) is on camera. The ethnicity of the driver is not visible until after she was pulled over, when she exits the car.”

Ien did not immediately respond to requests for comment on what police have said about the incident.

In her opinion piece she said she had just driven into her driveway after dropping off her daughter at her sister’s house when a police cruiser, with its lights flashing, pulled in behind her.

She said she got out and was yelled at by the officer to return to her car and was later given a warning, not a ticket, by the officer.

“I was at home. My safe place. And I was scared,” she wrote.

She said she told the officer: “How do I explain this to my kids? I teach them to be respectful, fair and kind, but I’m not feeling respected, served or protected right now.”

Police spokesman Mark Pugash said the force stands by their senior officers’ tweets.

“Ms. Ien has made some very serious allegations and we would encourage her to file a complaint with the Office of the Independent Police Review Director,” Pugash said, adding that Chief Mark Saunders has also invited Ien to watch the police video and read a transcript of an audio recording of the incident. pay in January 2017 under a cloudofsecrecy.

Court documents later revealed that the Mounties suspected him of having leaked cabinet secrets to a Quebec shipyard over fears the Trudeau government would cancel a key shipbuilding project.

But the RCMP have yet to announce whether they plan to charge him or drop the case, leaving Norman — who has denied any wrongdoing — in limbo and some observers calling for his reinstatement.

RCMP spokeswoman Stephanie Dumoulin confirmed in an email on Friday that the investigation is ongoing.

Wynnyk is the third senior officer to serve as acting vicechief after Lt.-Gen. Alain Parent, who is retiring after less than a year on the job, and Vice-Admiral Ron Lloyd, who held the position for the five months after Norman’s suspension.

That amount of turnover is having a “crippling” effect on the military, warned defence analyst David Perry of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.

Perry recently released a report which found that, only eight months into its 20-year defence policy, the government was already on track to spend billions less on new equipment than promised because of problems in the system.

“It’s a really crucial position in terms of how the Department of National Defence spends money and not, andtonothaveapermanent person in there for a year and a half is a major impediment,” he said of the vicechief. Marci Ien, co-host of The Social, alleged in a column that racism played a role in a traffic stop outside her home.