Together with his mother he cried for his lost sisterThe lawsuit is an attempt to force the RCMP to institute recommendations from several inquests into suicides and police shootings in Nunavut, said Qamaniq. It claims officers don’t speak the language of the people and don’t use the communication tools they have. That’s not enough.”Anne Crawford, the family’s lawyer, said the force is losing touch with Inuit. “Everyone is concerned about the overall relationship between the RCMP and individuals in Nunavut these days,” she said. A letter that year from Nunavut’s legal-aid service suggested it had information on 30 cases of excessive use of force.

Source: National Post April 14, 2019 20:03 UTC