given the assertion that EPS’s “new vehicle” was requested in the year 2017 when “none of this [public outcry about police practices] was happening,” here are some ~receipts~

2017 was the year that 10 EPS and ETS officers with assault rifles were necessary to arrest a drunk and vomiting person at the university LRT station, punching him in the head during the arrest https://thegatewayonline.ca/2017/04/man-arrested-university-lrt-station/">https://thegatewayonline.ca/2017/04/m...

2017 was also the year that we learned for 100% sure that EPS carding disproportionately targets Black and Indigenous people thanks to the release of statistics from a FOIP request https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/street-checks-edmonton-police-aboriginal-black-carding-1.4178843">https://www.cbc.ca/news/cana...

in 2017 deanna noname called EPS for help because her kid fell onto the LRT tracks; they arrested her instead and she died in jail https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-police-custody-deanna-noname-indigenous-woman-death-investigation-1.4248265">https://www.cbc.ca/news/cana...

2017 was ALSO the year that the alberta provincial court ruled that an undercover EPS initiative called “operation derailment” used entrapment rather than legitimate investigative principles https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/operation-derailment-entrapment-edmonton-coliseum-1.4361263">https://www.cbc.ca/news/cana...

anyways, at EPS, stop fuckin lying https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😊" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit lächelnden Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit lächelnden Augen">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😊" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit lächelnden Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit lächelnden Augen">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😊" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit lächelnden Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit lächelnden Augen">