For years the so-called leaders of Manitoba's aboriginals have tried to anoint some doped-up, blind-drunk, gang-allied or suicidal member of Reserve X, Y or Z as a champion for getting killed while confronting police.
Chief This, Grand Chief That and Superchief Whatsis could always be counted
on to declare shrilly that the police had murdered the newly deceased, who, of
course, was blameless, pure, and would be greatly missed because he always made
people laugh.
It was, they would say, proof of how The Man is prejudiced against the
irreproachable aboriginals who-- allegedly-- try to shoot, stab, drive into
or drive over police officers.
But year-after-year the anti-police hate campaign failed to gain traction
once the facts of each case proved that the police officers acted properly
under the circumstances.
So you can imagine how giddy the aboriginal leaders must have been last
week when the RCMP announced that a guard at Headingley Jail had been charged
following the death of an inmate 11 months ago. It wasn't a police officer, but
it would have to do.
The charges involved William Ahmo, 45, who died in hospital 7 days after
being restrained following a lengthy standoff with guards at the jail. Ahmo's
arrest record includes beating up a woman, threatening a woman with a gun,
flashing a gun in a bar, forcible confinement, sexual assault, and more than 20
firearms-related charges. He was being held at Headingley jail pending court on
charges of aggravated assault and robbery in December, 2020.
He was, according to a statement issued Monday by the Southern Chiefs
Organization, "a beloved member of the Sagkeeng Anicinabe First
Nation."
In the midst of celebrating the charging of the guard, Assembly of Manitoba
Chiefs Grand Chief Arlen Dumas praised the RCMP for their "innovative
investigation".
Say what?
None of the MSM "journalists" heard the slip or at least none
bothered to follow up the strange comment. So a standard
investigation failed to elicit the evidence to lay a charge leaving the RCMP to
resort to "innovative" techniques?
The last time we heard of "innovative" policing was when the
Winnipeg police tried to railroad a suspect in the death of Tina Fontaine. For
six months they had undercover officers pretend to be neighbours of the suspect
so they could trick him into saying something incriminating that would be taped
and used to convict him. The operation, called Project Styx, was a total
failure when six months later they had bupkis. They still charged him, but the
jury saw right through the "innovative" investigation and returned a
not guilty verdict after a day of deliberations.
While Dumas may have exposed a secret of the prosecution of the Headingley
jail guard Robert Morden, it was another aboriginal cheerleader who exposed the
truth of it.
Niigaan Sinclair's screeds run in the Winnipeg Free Press. He was attacking
the RCMP as usual following the announcement of the charges when he let the
proverbial cat out of the bag.
"Morden's trial
is going to be political, with dozens of historical intersections at once. It
will be about theatrics, persuasion, and well, politics."
In short, the prosecution of Robert Morden is political, not criminal.
Morden is to be the sacrificial lamb to appease the mob, innovative
investigation and all.
"If Saskatchewan farmer Gerald Stanley can be found not-guilty for
shooting 22-year old Indigenous man Colten Boushie in the back of the head
because a jury believed the gun went off “accidentally,” it doesn’t really
matter how much evidence police have collected." he wrote.
Evidence be damned, then. Sinclair was saying the prosecution of the guard
will become a circus, with a howling mob outside demanding the accused be
convicted regardless of the facts of the case, while inside the justice
establishment will try to conduct a civilized trial based on centuries of
jurisprudence centered on the principle that the accused is innocent until
proven guilty by the state beyond a reasonable doubt.
Sinclair's contempt for the jury in the Saskatchewan case shows the kind of
"justice" that aboriginal leaders like him want to see.
But, perhaps, he doesn't know the evidence in the Bouchie case (or he's
hoping you don't).
Court was told the accused in the case was awakened in the middle of the
night by a carload of thieves looking for something to steal on his farm. The
occupants were rip-roaring drunk, with one admitting at trial he had had 30
shots of liquor that day. They were in a stolen car with the driver's side tire
missing and the car being driven on the rim. They had a rifle in the car, which
turned out to be damaged when they used it to smash the window of another
farmer's car that they had intended to steal. When confronted, they drove away
so recklessly that the accused farmer thought they might run over his wife, so
he used his handgun to scare the driver into stopping. While holding the gun,
it went off accidentally, something firearms experts at trial said was a
possibility with that type of firearm.
"I know certain details in this (Ahmo) case," Sinclair teased,
hinting he knew things he couldn't reveal yet.
Well, we know certain
details, too. And we're going to reveal them.
Two weeks after Ahmo's unfortunate demise, a local website called news4Winnipeg was provided exclusive details of what transpired at Headingley jail. We have since heard from a second source who corroborated many of the details in the original leak.
Here's the story, which we are presenting exactly as it first appeared.
https://news4winnipeg.com/new-information-sheds-light-on-incident-leading-to-inmates-death/
Ahmo had come into the correction
system most recently after his arrest in January 2021. He spent approximately
10 days at the Winnipeg Remand Centre before being transferred to Headingley
Correctional Centre.
An unconfirmed report indicated that
prior to his arrest Ahmo had spent several days under the influence of
methamphetamines and was subject to violent episodes.
Around 10:00 am on Sunday, February 7,
2021, Ahmo was in a sub-unit off the rotunda area when he was approached by a
staff member to return to his cell.
Ahmo allegedly took exception to the
request and “went off” on the staff member. “He began to break the televisions,
ripped a hot water tank off the wall and became belligerent. He then grabbed a
broom handle and snapped it in two, using it as a weapon,” said the source. “It
became apparent that he was having a mental health crisis but apart from
talking little could be done while he was armed.”
According to the source attempts were
made to de-escalate the situation but Ahmo was too agitated to respond to the
requests.
Shortly after
Ahmo improvised the weapon, one staff member was taken hostage for a short time
inside an office but was able to slip away when Ahmo was distracted.
After nearly
three hours the situation continued to escalate and Ahmo became more aggressive
and belligerent. Members of the Manitoba
Corrections Emergency Response Unit (CERU) were called in. “The team is highly
trained to deal specifically with these types of situations.”
When the team arrived Ahmo was on the
second tier of the unit. OC gas (pepper spray) was deployed in an effort to
keep him on the upper tier.
According to the source, during this
time multiple attempts were made to negotiate a successful outcome with Ahmo
without success.
CERU learned that earlier use of OC
pepper spray was causing medical distress for other inmates and they were
forced to end the incident quickly.
At that point CERU was seen using a
device that emits a bright light and loud bang to distract the inmate but Ahmo
was seen walking towards it when it went off knocking him to the ground.
According to the source, Ahmo was back
on his feet in seconds, charging the CERU line and swinging the broom sticks.
Officers with arm shields were able to stave off the attack while other
officers surrounded Ahmo and wrestled him to the ground.
News 4 was told Ahmo was seen
continuing to fight with the CERU members while hand cuffs and leg restraints
were put on. “He was strong and kept fighting even after the restraints were on
so he had to be put in a restraint chair.”
After Ahmo was placed in the chair he
became unresponsive. He was immediately removed from the chair and his
handcuffs and leg restraints were removed so medical personnel, already on
scene, could provide assistance.
Ahmo was then transported to Health
Sciences Centre for further treatment.
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It’s been 213 days (as of Jan. 29) since a mob of aboriginal protestors
tore down two historical statues on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislature in
the worst case of vandalism and anarchy in Winnipeg in living memory. The
wanton destruction took place as dozens of police watched and did nothing. Not
a single arrest has been made or charge laid.
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Published since 2005 on territory ceded, released, surrendered and yielded up to Her Majesty the Queen and successors forever by the aboriginal signatories to treaties in 1871.