POLICE NEED REVIEW

I am just sickened by the RCMP shooting of a beautiful young Indigenous girl in Edmundston, N.B. Five times! Really? Once again, the police are getting away with murder, how many times has this happened? Too many to count.

After the debacle in Nova Scotia where, in my opinion, a dozen people died because the RCMP did not put out an alert that a gunman was on the loose, the RCMP need to be held accountable. It is not only the RCMP that need to be looked at. In Summerside, an altercation with police resulted in a young man being shot eight times. Is it really necessary to shoot someone more than once?

As in the States, the entire policing of our nation needs to be looked at. We need to get away from this attack mode with policing and find a more humane approach to law enforcement; they simply cannot continue to kill innocent people.

In my humble opinion, law enforcement officers should not have live ammo. They should use rubber bullets or in a worst case scenario, a dart to put a dangerous person to sleep. Law enforcement officers need to be trained to de-escalate situations rather than go into a situation with guns ablazing.

It is clear after the shooting in Edmundston that RCMP and other law enforcement officers cannot be trusted with a gun in their hands. It is time to change the approach to policing that is both archaic and barbarian; times are changing and policing has to change as well. We need to make this an election issue, and hold our politicians accountable. If anyone is organizing a march, I am in. Anne Gallant, Millvale