Surprise: VPD acted unlawfully again

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Media exclusion zone during 2023 Vancouver decampment 'unlawful,' report finds

The BC Human Rights Commissioner found that the actions of VPD were "unlawful" by limiting media access as city workers broke up a homeless encampment.

vancouver.citynews.ca

archived: https://archive.today/yKRCc

The British Columbia Human Rights Commissioner has found that the actions of Vancouver Police were “unlawful” by limiting media access as city workers broke up a homeless encampment...
...police and the city “failed to strike the appropriate balance” between public safety with the freedom of the media in its handling of the decampment operation, where journalists were denied access, resulting in transparency being compromised.

No punishment, no accountability. When will the police pay for their crimes?

Police have said that there was no exclusion zone during the operation...
“Truth is, we wanted media present during the decampment,” Addison says in an email response. “We went to significant lengths to ensure media could observe the process taking place so they could report on it accurately.”

Police should be criminally charged when they lie to us like this, just like they charge us when we lie to them.

The report makes six recommendations... wants the Public Safety Ministry to fund rights-based training for police officers and change the Police Act to require compliance with recommendations made by the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner.

Good luck with compelling the police to implement your Human Rights recommendations. Hahahaha... good one.