Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!soley
From: soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: Toronto Police
Message-ID: <385@ontenv.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 89 15:14:44 GMT
References: <89Jan24.160527est.10808@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
Distribution: tor
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto
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In article <89Jan24.160527est.10808@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>, tff@na.toronto.edu (Tom Fairgrieve) writes:
> 
>  (Paul Gooderham) paulg@hcrvax.UUCP writes:
> 
> >In any case, an *investigation* should lead to charges.  Not a
> >politician's fear of losing the ethnic vote.
> 
> I am not aware of any cases where charges have been laid without
> an investigation being made by a police force or a Crown council.
> To which case were you refering?

In the Donaldson case the investigations by both the crown council and
the OPP recommended that no charges be laid due to insufficient
evidence, someone somewhere in the Ministry of the Attorney General
has chosen to IGNORE this advise. 

There are some serious questions to be asked about the Donaldson Case,
but this charge of manslaughter is working against the interest of
real justice, it's quite likely that the officer in question acted
correctly in the day of the shooting, what should really be called
into question is the apparent harrassment (by other officers if I'm
not mistaken) that led up to this case, but now that the charge has
been layed any chance of a proper investigation of the events leading
up to the Donaldson killing is now very slim.
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