Inuk man shot dead by Nunavik police a victim of systemic racism: Crown-Indigenous minister

Canada’s curate for Crown-Indigenous relations says the sidesplitting of an Inuk antheral by constabulary successful an Inuit colony successful Quebec’s Far North is an illustration of systemic racism.

Gary Anandasangaree said Thursday successful a connection the decease of Joshua Papigatuk earlier this week underscores the systemic racism Indigenous Peoples acquisition successful the justness system.

Papigatuk was changeable and killed and his duplicate member Garnet was earnestly injured aft the Nunavik Police Service responded to a telephone astir idiosyncratic allegedly attempting to thrust drunk aboriginal Monday morning.

The shooting successful the assemblage of Salluit, astir 1,850 kilometres northbound of Montreal, has led to shock, choler and calls for alteration successful the Nunavik region.

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Anandasangaree offered his condolences to the household and says existent structural alteration is indispensable to code these injustices.

Quebec’s constabulary watchdog — Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes — has opened an probe into the shooting.