ENOUGH.
A restrained, intoxicated 17-year-old Indigenous girl was punched FOUR TIMES in the stomach by a Vancouver jail guard while surrounded by officers and staff.
She was handcuffed. Restrained. Defenceless. In state custody.
This was not “protection.” This was violence.
The judge called it “gratuitous violence,” a “gross abuse of trust,” and another example in Canada’s long history of mistreatment of Indigenous women.
And after all this? PAID LEAVE. HOUSE ARREST.
People are furious because this sends a devastating message to youth, Indigenous communities, women, and the public: that violence committed under authority is treated differently.
We need real accountability. We need independent oversight. We need protection for vulnerable people in custody. And we need the culture that allows this brutality to end.
If this happened to your daughter, your sister, your niece, your friend — would six months at home feel like justice?
Speak up. Do not normalize this. Do not look away.
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