This is insane:
Edmonton Police authorized a *7 month* surveillance operation targeting a journalist critical of police and followed his family doing mundane things
This covert operation was supposedly necessary to determine who vandalized a statue honouring a literal WW2 Nazi
Edmonton Police authorized a *7 month* surveillance operation targeting a journalist critical of police and followed his family doing mundane things
This covert operation was supposedly necessary to determine who vandalized a statue honouring a literal WW2 Nazi
so what does 181 man hours of surveillance of you and your family spread out over 7 months look like? one thing the EPS were doing was hanging outside my house taking pictures of my partner and small child. (thread)
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Is what it is
The story is in french https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-affaires-criminelles/201610/30/01-5036027-patrick-lagace-vise-par-24-mandats-de-surveillance-policiere.php
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/it-was-four-years-of-my-life-on-hold-cas-whistleblower-cleared-of-hacking-charges
Not so long ago it was Lethbridge cops following NDP MLA Shannon Phillips.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/lethbridge-police-asirt-investigation-shannon-phillips-charges-crown-1.7213411
Googled it -Kerry Diotte
That’s messed up. Even though I’m pretty sure I don’t even like Diotte, that’s fucked up
if this was a few decades ago tho, we may have seen something similar to moncton NB where city policing was disolved and turned over to the RCMP...
but, i dont think we will see those kinda reforms with how polarized everything is these days
*7 months* of surveillance…?
On suspicion of vandalism…?
Of a statue honouring a Nazi..?
This is a reasonable use of taxpayer resources…?
This happened to an MLA
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7345014