A Labrador man has lost his bid for a long-sought public hearing about his detainment by police in 2015 at a mental health hospital for a post he made on social media.

A Labrador man has lost his bid for a long-sought public hearing about his detainment by police in 2015 at a mental health hospital for a post he made on social media.

A ruling dated Thursday by an adjudicator with the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary’s Public Complaints Commission says a public hearing would be “desirable,” but Andrew Abbass did not file his complaint soon enough against retired Sgt. Tim Buckle.

Abbass said in an interview that he is frustrated by chief adjudicator John Whalen’s conclusion, but he hopes there will be an appeal.

Whalen’s decision says Abbass was detained by members of the force in April 2015 and kept for six days at a hospital, allegedly because of tweets he wrote in response to the fatal shooting by police of Donald Dunphy that month in St. Mary’s Bay, N.L.

  • girlfreddy@lemmy.caOP
    242·
    4 months ago

    Abbass said he did not file a complaint right away because he did not understand the circumstances of his arrest until a public inquiry into Dunphy’s death revealed that Buckle and another officer texted about Abbass’s arrest and referred to him as a “loser.”

    As always, ACAB.

    • voracitude@lemmy.world
      11·
      4 months ago

      So the police just outright abduct and intimidate citizens they don’t like, in Canada?

      Where do they think they are, America?

      • key@lemmy.keychat.orgEnglish
        16·
        4 months ago

        Google “starlight tours”. Canadian police love abducting people and doing far worse than putting them in a mental hospital.

      • girlfreddy@lemmy.caOP
        61·
        4 months ago

        Cops are cops everywhere. Which is why ACAB is appropriate everywhere as well.