About 100 Calgarians rallied in front of city hall on Saturday to call for an end to police brutality and for justice for Mona Wang. Okanagan who was dragged and stepped on by an RCMP officer during a wellness check on the Kelowna campus earlier this year. A lawsuit filed by Wang against Browning says the officer found the student lying on her apartment's bathroom floor and did not provide medical assistance. RCMP officer drags student down a hallway and then steps on her head after detaining the woman during a wellness check. Many members of the Black Lives Matter movement have said nurses or other mental health professionals should be called to wellness checks, not police.

Source: CBC News July 05, 2020 01:41 UTC