A young Indigenous mother who was refused a breast pump while being held in a Saskatoon detention facility last year has received a formal apology from the city's police chief. "This was a very embarrassing and humiliating time for her, and she is simply ready to move on," Desjarlais's lawyer, Ammy Murray, told CBC News. She was held in custody for 75 hours, over the weekend, without access to a breast pump. "It hurt a lot," Desjarlais told CBC News last year. "We hadn't ever had a need for a breast pump before.

Source: CBC News June 02, 2017 11:01 UTC