[R-G] Frank Paul inquiry in last stage (demo May 8th / link to article)

[Ivan D. Drury]

The following is an announcement for a demonstration being organized by
the Indigenous Action Movement demanding justice for Frank Paul. This
rally is taking place at the end of the section of the Frank Paul
inquiry that deals with police and government policy. 

The
Frank Paul inquiry has been systematically limited from finding fault,
laying blame or placing binding rulings on the police department that
killed Frank Paul. 

At bottom of this email is an except and
link to an article that deals with the limitations of public inquiry as
shown through the case of Frank Paul and the ways that protests like
the one being organized on May 8th have forced the government to act.

In solidarity, 
Ivan

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*Frank Paul Support For Justice Rally*

the Indigenous Action Movement invites you to
join us in the
Support for Justice Rally
for Frank Paul

Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 5:30.

We will begin gathering at 5:00
at the Vancouver Detox
377 East 2nd Avenue 

Members of the Micmac community will conduct a ceremony at the actual spot where Frank's body was dragged to.

In
Dana Urban's testimony, he explained that the scrape marks on Frank's
body were consistent with being dragged and not carried and  propped up
in a sheltered spot as the paddy wagon driver testified to.

http://indigenousaction.blogspot.com/

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The Police Killing of Frank Paul:
Limitations of Public Inquiry & the Power of Protest

By Ivan Drury

No
case has illuminated the blind alley of the police "public inquiry"
more clearly than that of the 1998 police killing of Frank Paul in
Vancouver. The Frank Paul inquiry, restricted from the beginning from
finding fault or laying charges, has the potential of becoming a
crossroads from which the entire corrupt policing and "justice" system
can begin to be challenged by the communities they have brutalized for
hundreds of years.

This potential was clear to the BC government
from the start. Solicitor-General Rich Coleman made that plain in 2001
when he sent a letter to Police Complaint Commissioner Don Morrison
explaining that he would not open a coroner’s inquest into Frank Paul’s
death where “culpability, liability and issues of racial discrimination
are likely to become the central features. (…) [A] responsible coroner
would not permit the pursuit of those matters. Public acrimony would
almost certainly follow.” 

[...] *cont'd here: http://ivandrury.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/61/


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