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Vancouver officers absent from apology ceremony for wrongful arrest of Indigenous man, granddaughter

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Const. Mitchel Tong and Const. Canon Wong, the two Vancouver police officers who wrongfully arrested an Indigenous man and his granddaughter at a bank in December 2019, have failed to attend a planned apology ceremony in Heiltsuk Nation.

The officers were invited to go to the ceremony as part of the settlement reached with Vancouver police earlier this year.

In a statement, the nation said it is "deeply disappointed" by the constables' decision not to attend, but also view their non-attendance as a symptom of the larger systemic failure to acknowledge and take responsibility for systemic racism in the Vancouver Police Department."

Neetu Garcha reports on the community's disappointment in the officers' absence, and how the ceremony will now honour the girl and her grandfather, Maxwell Johnson.

For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/9221263/vancouver-police-apology-ceremony-heiltsuk-nation/

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