In a press briefing this afternoon, the Commissioner of Police said that what the officers are accused of goes completely against their training:
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"Well, again we continue to demonstrate that when it comes to police misconduct we are not going to shield any of our own. It serves us no good to do so. Police officers are trained to preserve life, not to take life. We are trained to be civil to the people that we serve, not to beat up on them and so when police officers behave in the manners we. Saw they did with the Macdougal matter they must be held accountable and so what we did, we did a thorough investigation and submitted the file to the DPP and today we received instructions from that office to proceed with charges of manslaughter against those officers and another officer was also charged for perverting the course of justice because it was established she lied in her statement. So, again we want to be as transparent as we can to show the public that we are serious about dealing with our own when they step out of line."
We'll keep following this case.
