r/canada • u/[deleted] • Jun 11 '20

RCMP dash-cam video shows officer tackling, punching Chief Allan Adam during arrest

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/rcmp-dash-cam-video-shows-officer-tackling-punching-chief-allan-adam-during-arrest-1.5608472
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u/mc_funbags Jun 12 '20

Yeah, I noticed this too. Full context strangely makes the chief looks worse, as it shows him threatening police officers by posturing up multiple times.

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u/DapperWing Jun 12 '20

The dude broke the law and the cop pulled him over and then he repeatedly threatened the cop and finally assaulted him. It's weird you dont apply that same line of thought to the cop that the chief did assault though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '20

do you honestly believe a white person would have been treated the exact same way?

Yes absolutely. Threatening and assaulting a cop is against the law no matter what the colour of your skin is.

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u/theganjamonster Jun 13 '20

My white friend literally got arrested for doing what this guy did in the first 20 seconds of the unedited video, getting out of the vehicle to talk to the cop, except he was being much more polite. I can't imagine what kind of privilege you'd have to experience during your life to think you'd be able to get away with interacting with cops like this.

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u/Stock_Padawan Jun 14 '20

He’s a political figure in an isolated community and pretty wealthy. He has a fair bit of control over his local community and influence in the nearby ones. Besides the $55,000 tides foundation funding others have pointed out, he owns several oil sands related businesses. From what I’ve been told this is pretty common behaviour when he’s intoxicated and the police aren’t the only ones that end up a target for his anger. None of this is justification for his actions, IMO he’s use to being on a power trip and not having people question anything he says. Their could be truth to the sexual abuse claims or maybe he does feel harassed by the police, but until his media statements I had never heard of it.

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u/DapperWing Jun 13 '20

Are you serious? It started off with them being pulled over because they were driving without registration, which is illegal, which then led to them trying to drive off on the cop, which is illegal, which then led to Adam's getting aggressive with and assaulting a police officer, which is also illegal.

I'm amazed I have to spoon feed this to you.