Nunavut man shot dead by Winnipeg police had violent history connected to longing for home

There’s a memorial partition astatine Tunngasugit Inuit Resource connected Selkirk Avenue.

“This is successful representation of Inuit we person lost,” says CEO Nikki Komaksiutiksak , adjacent to the partition with much than a twelve photos of Inuit who’ve died successful Winnipeg facing “numerous challenges portion navigating municipality life.”

The adjacent photograph to beryllium added volition beryllium Jordan Charlie, 24, the Inuk changeable and killed by constabulary aft stabbing an serviceman successful the cervix astatine a Unicity buying analyzable connected Sunday evening.

Charlie was taken astatine a young property from his location successful Taloyoak, Nunavut, and bounced astir to antithetic provinces and territories done the kid payment system.

His archetypal brushwood with the instrumentality arsenic an big happened successful Yellowknife successful 2019 erstwhile without informing oregon provocation, according to CKLB radio, he stabbed a antheral successful the neck, stole his marijuana and portion successful custody, viciously attacked a jailhouse guard.

Yellowknife’s NNSL Media reported that Charlie’s lawyer, Baljinder Rattan, told the tribunal her lawsuit suffered from borderline property traits and oppositional defiant upset successful the “backdrop of fetal intoxicant spectrum disorder.” Several termination attempts besides reportedly affected his cognitive ability.

Rattan reportedly told the tribunal her lawsuit acted retired violently successful part, due to the fact that helium wanted to beryllium sent location to Nunavut.

“Even if helium was sent backmost successful a coffin, helium wanted to spell backmost to Nunavut,” Rattan was quoted by NNSL Media.

Instead, Charlie was sent to Stony Mountain Institution northbound of Winnipeg to service a 4.5 twelvemonth sentence. When Charlie was released, helium recovered himself stranded successful Winnipeg. A communal story, says Komaksiutiksak.

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“There are nary relationships betwixt the justness strategy successful Nunavut and the justness strategy successful Manitoba, particularly,” she says. “And arsenic a effect of that, determination are analyzable barriers that are associated with the deficiency of supports and and the deficiency of of knowing that our radical request successful bid to thrive arsenic assemblage members. And truthful we’ve seen this clip and clip again.”

Charlie struggled with homelessness and addiction sought kinship of chap Inuit done Tunngasugit. But it wasn’t enough.

“Every strategy that was successful spot for him that was expected to beryllium determination to enactment and assistance and assistance support the assemblage protected from immoderate of the behaviors that helium was displaying, each dropped the shot and conscionable stopped moving with him,” Komaksiutiksak says.

The effect was a revolving doorway of crimes and much jailhouse time.

Charlie’s privation to get location “even successful a coffin” is 1 of the services Tunngasugit volition assistance with. They guarantee Inuit who dice successful Winnipeg “are transported backmost to their location territory to beryllium buried appropriately,” Komaksiutiksak said.

In the meantime, the Independent Investigations Unit of Manitoba is investigating portion the constabulary serviceman who was stabbed successful the cervix recovers.