This 100%.
We accept that dirty cops like the one with his knee on #FloydGeorge’s neck are the exception, not the rule. What we do not accept is that none of the other three officers present stopped the real crime from being committed, because the criminal was one of their own. https://twitter.com/corybmorgan/status/1266415378239942657

Remember the Robert Dziekanski case? All the cops involved, and their bosses who represented the RCMP, outright lied to the public about their role in killing an innocent man. It’s called the thin blue line.

One of the cops who attacked Dziekanski and needlessly tazed him to death had drove drunk and killed a motorcyclist not long before, and beat the rap because he knew leaving the scene of an accident and having a drink would invalidate the breathalyzer. https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/news/british-columbia/court-hears-claim-rcmp-officer-drank-vodka-to-beat-drunk-driving-charge/article535569/

I had a crooked cop by the name of Louis Daoult harass, stalk me, beat me up and defame my reputation in my small town for over a year, giving me almost $5000 in spurious tickets.

His favourite was to pull up on the other side of a street. Ask to me to come over to his car. And give me a ticket for jaywalking when I obeyed. After he did this twice, I didn’t come over, so he got out and detained me. On campus where my colleagues seen it.

I’d fight these tickets, have signed attestations that Officer Daoult of the SPS was lying, but it didn’t matter. I still had to pay every one and got charged penalties for challenging them.

One time i was outside the Couche Tard, he seen me and pulled up. Said what are you doing. I told him to go away. He gets out and runs up to me and shoves me into a wall and starts to cuff me. I’m yelling like hell, cuffed and the ground and he starts pounding me out.

Then, he throws my bloody ass in the cop car, turns the motor on, and says he is writing another ticket for not wearing my seatbelt.
I was lying in the back of the car bloody and with my hands cuffed behind me back.

He knew exactly where I lived, and for all these tickets, he pretended I didn’t live where it said, and called my university’s security to ask where I lived was correct. Didn’t explain why he needed to know. BU security told my dean, and rumours swirled.

And even when he couldn’t get for anything, he would slow his car down to my pace as I was on the sidewalk walking and follow along and say stuff like “Hi Bernard? How are you doing today.”

He also was known locally for beating up drunken college kids with his partner, and looking for reasons to put anglophone kids in the position that he could respond with force. He always escalated things, but in a calculated rather than unrestrained way.

I filed multiple complaints, but none of them were every followed up by the SPS, and there was nothing I could do. And if you know Lennoxville, you know it’s a town with more than enough legitimate work that they could do.

This is a town legendary for the corruption that bikers brought, the market for cocaine and party drugs, the theft of college kids stuff. But it’s easier to wait all day long to see someone step off a front lawn with a beer in hand.

And it ain’t just a Sherbrooke thing. Every where I have ever gone, I’ve always encountered stress and bad things when police are around. EPS is particularly unprofessional in my experience, and I say this as someone who has been homeless on the streets of #yeg.

The police always protect dirty cops, even the obviously guilt ones, and there is rarely, if ever, an actual consequence for bad behaviour.
Policemen, like judges and politicians, should be punished worse if they transgress the code of laws they swore to uphold.

This is white guy from a good family saying this. My long hair, wearing a backpack, a ball cap, riding a bike. These are all choices I make that cause police to treat me like shit. Now imagine you get treated like that because of the colour of your skin, which ain’t a choice.

Please don’t conflate my message. I have family that serves, including a cousin here in Alberta with the RCMP and an uncle in Vancouver who was a detective with the VPD. These are people of the highest moral character.

But this does not mean that we ought not to expect better from policing.
Respect is earned. Not just given. And it’s also a reciprocal thing. A rotten apple spoils the whole bunch. And I don’t think I can give police the benefit of the doubt based on my experiences with them.

If you live in #yeg and you see this cop, beware. This guy is crooked af and is a danger to people on the streets. I have a video of my experiences with this crooked cop. But filing complaints does nothing, they’re above the law. @edmontonpolice

His name is Officer C. Noel, badge number #2664. He’s a pig and a menace.