RCMP say no mistreatment of family after shooting of Saskatchewan Indigenous man
REGINA — An internal RCMP investigation has cleared officers who were accused of mistreating the family of an Indigenous man after he was shot to death on a Saskatchewan farm.
Colten Boushie’s family filed a complaint about how they were treated when they were notified of his death in August 2016.
The complaint, detailed in an RCMP report recently sent to the family, said Boushie’s mother, Debbie Baptiste, felt the way police surrounded her home “seemed out of the ordinary and insensitive.”
Baptiste also said one officer told her to “get it together” when she collapsed after learning of her son’s death and asked her if she’d been drinking.