That expert, @merissadaborn.bsky.social, said this set up – where mostly Indigenous families would be funding Indigenous cultural programming – “unconscionable,” given how the over-incarceration of Indigenous people has been linked to systemic racism and colonization in Canada.

This is what the WPS does with a $350 million a year budget: viciously attack poor Indigenous people trying to survive. The number of cops who responded to this were alone worth more than $1 million a year in salary. That's money directly stolen from our communities.

Defund and abolish the WPS.

This was all for what looked to be no more than $50 worth of allegedly stolen food.

You can see in the video that he was complying with cop orders and not resisting arrest. He also repeatedly requested that the arrest be videoed.