The world’s most famous teenage climate change fighter has publicly tut-tutted the violent arrest of a northern Alberta Indigenous chief..Greta Thunberg took to Twitter to comment on the arrest of Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in March as he sat outside a casino in a truck with his wife in Fort McMurray..“I met with Chief Allan Adam in Fort McMurray last autumn and I’m shocked by this shameful abuse by the RCMP,” Greta said in a post uploaded to her Twitter account..“Very disturbing to see,” she added..In a press conference, Adams said the incident happened over an alleged expired licence plate..As the RCMP begin to arrest Adam’s wife, the chief leaves the truck from the passenger side..In the video, an RCMP officer is seen hitting Adam with a flying clothesline tackle..The video then shows both officers on Adam and the officer who tackled him punches him while yelling “don’t resist.” .“What the f***’s wrong with you guys,” Adam is heard saying before he emerges from the ground with a bloody face and with the officers holding him..“You know you f***ing did the wrong thing — you know that?”.Adam said: “We (Indigenous people) are a minority, and nobody speaks up for us. Every time our people do wrong, the RCMP… they always seem to use excessive force. And that has to stop.”. Alberta police watchdog investigating another violent RCMP arrestAllan Adam Courtesy YouTube . Alberta’s police watchdog — the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team — has been directed to investigate..An affidavit filed in court along with the video quotes the notes of Const. Simon Seguin, the CBC reported. .“I charged at the male [Adam] with the intention of bringing him to the ground,” Seguin wrote in his notes.. POLL: Many Albertans say they will ignore Christmas COVID lockdown .“I struck the male as he tried to come up. He turned on his right side. I struck him using my right hand on his right side of the face..“I wrapped my hand [left arm] around his jaw and started squeezing.” .RCMP charged Adam with one count each of resisting arrest and assaulting a peace officer. He is to appear in court July 2..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.Twitter.com/nobby7694
The world’s most famous teenage climate change fighter has publicly tut-tutted the violent arrest of a northern Alberta Indigenous chief..Greta Thunberg took to Twitter to comment on the arrest of Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in March as he sat outside a casino in a truck with his wife in Fort McMurray..“I met with Chief Allan Adam in Fort McMurray last autumn and I’m shocked by this shameful abuse by the RCMP,” Greta said in a post uploaded to her Twitter account..“Very disturbing to see,” she added..In a press conference, Adams said the incident happened over an alleged expired licence plate..As the RCMP begin to arrest Adam’s wife, the chief leaves the truck from the passenger side..In the video, an RCMP officer is seen hitting Adam with a flying clothesline tackle..The video then shows both officers on Adam and the officer who tackled him punches him while yelling “don’t resist.” .“What the f***’s wrong with you guys,” Adam is heard saying before he emerges from the ground with a bloody face and with the officers holding him..“You know you f***ing did the wrong thing — you know that?”.Adam said: “We (Indigenous people) are a minority, and nobody speaks up for us. Every time our people do wrong, the RCMP… they always seem to use excessive force. And that has to stop.”. Alberta police watchdog investigating another violent RCMP arrestAllan Adam Courtesy YouTube . Alberta’s police watchdog — the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team — has been directed to investigate..An affidavit filed in court along with the video quotes the notes of Const. Simon Seguin, the CBC reported. .“I charged at the male [Adam] with the intention of bringing him to the ground,” Seguin wrote in his notes.. POLL: Many Albertans say they will ignore Christmas COVID lockdown .“I struck the male as he tried to come up. He turned on his right side. I struck him using my right hand on his right side of the face..“I wrapped my hand [left arm] around his jaw and started squeezing.” .RCMP charged Adam with one count each of resisting arrest and assaulting a peace officer. He is to appear in court July 2..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.Twitter.com/nobby7694
