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I am Colten Boushie. Canada is the all-white jury that acquitted his killer

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On 9 August 2016, when he was 22, Colten Boushie, a Cree man from the Red Pheasant First Nation was shot in the head by Gerald Stanley, a white farmer. Earlier this month, beneath a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in Battleford, Saskatchewan, in Canada’s prairies, an all-white jury in a court presided over by a white judge found Stanley not guilty of second-degree murder and also not guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter.

According to the Stanley family, Boushie and his friends were trying to rob their farm. After an altercation, Stanley fired three shots. The third hit Boushie in the back of the head and killed him. Stanley claimed that the point-blank shot to Boushie’s head was a “freak accident”, possibly the result of an unlikely mechanical failure known as hang fire, according to his defense.

That evening, a dozen law enforcement officers arrived at the home of Boushie’s mother, Debbie Baptiste. They told Baptiste that her son was “deceased”, accused her of drinking, and commenced an unwarranted search of her trailer. “My son was the victim,” Baptiste later told the Globe and Mail. “But I thought that we did something wrong.”



Source :- theguardian
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