Now I need to put my faith in the court system, that hasn’t always been just for my people. “At one time I had to have faith in the IIO, it was the only hope we had.
We must replace these unaccountable systems.” and Canada, Indigenous Nations, communities and families are reeling from continued police killings of our people. “This lawsuit is a message for the RCMP: you cannot keep killing us,” Lowndes’ mother Laura Holland said in the Pivot press release. The civil claim seeks general, special, aggravated and punitive damages against the defendants, with Lowndes’ family saying that they’ve suffered the loss of financial support, household services, care, guidance and companionship, inheritance, as well as experienced emotional distress, and incurred funeral expenses. “The lags, holdups, and pauses consistently experienced by families undermine any notion of justice and highlight how broken the current model is.”
Civil Liberties Association director Meghan McDermott in the Pivot Legal Society press release. It is appalling that families have no choice but to wait - usually alone and in the dark - for any measure of accountability from our dysfunctional system,” said B.C. “Systemic delays are unconscionable and inflict an excruciatingly high cost on families left behind. 1, 2022 the Independent Investigations Office of British Columbia (IIO) announced it would be referring the file to the Crown for consideration of charges against three of the unnamed officers, having determined that “reasonable grounds exist to believe that these three officers may have committed criminal offences in relation to various uses of force.”Īccording to an emailed press release from Pivot Legal society, the IIO has not yet filed its report with Crown Counsel. RELATED: Family of slain Indigenous man confront RCMP in Campbell River The police dog was also killed in the incident. According to the claim, the RCMP had blocked Lowndes’ vehicle, and commanded a police service dog to enter the vehicle through an open window.
Two years after he was killed by the Campbell River RCMP, the family of Jared Lowndes has filed a civil claim against the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General as well as four unnamed RCMP officers.Īccording to the claim, on July 8, 2021, Lowndes was shot and killed by “one or more” of the police defendants near Tim Hortons in Campbell River’s Willow Point neighbourhood.
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