It’s important to give them choices.
A judge once warned him, “You can either grow up and become an adult or you can keep doing this kind of thing and then you’re going to run the risk at having the Crown look to applying for dangerous offender status for you.”
3 murders, what will be his Gladue sentence?
Three weeks in a healing lodge?
No, four weeks. He’s a dangerous offender after all.
maybe some restorative justice in the form of working as a slave for the families of his victims for the next 3 life times?
Pooyak was identified as needing a high level of intervention due to his “negative peer associations,”….
I’m like “Huh?!?” I Googled it…yup, sure enough. “Indigenous Intervention Centres” are a thing. When your community psychopath gets a stern talking to from his elders in between puffs of sweetgrass.
We are an effed up nation.
It sounds like he killed white guys, so he probably doesn’t have to worry about the dangerous offender status thing yet. Unless he uses the n-word in court or calls a female a bitch, then the Crown will get him.
They’re allowed to use the n-word, I’ve heard them use it openly and fearlessly several times. They refer to themselves and each other with that word. He most definitely uses derogatory language toward women as well. If you’re committing triple homicides you’re not too worried about the language police I don’t think.
It’s ok though, he’s Indian (or Native, or Aboriginal, or First Nations, or whatever) so it’s probably someone else’s fault he did it.
It’s our fault. We should have imprisoned him sooner, for much longer.
That judge should probably take a refresher course on what the tear drop tattoo means (especially when it is multiple).
Judge: but obviously he’s remorseful about it.
I had a friend who was murdered by the same kind of trash, so I hope he gets tortured to death.
Most of the problems with First Nations could be solved by confining their women to secure institutions during pregnancy, preventing them from getting drunk or huffing gasoline. After a couple generations the fetal alcohol syndrome behind 90% of these stories would be gone.
Most of the problems could be solved by just implementing the 1980 White Paper. One time restitution in 1980 dollars and then they’re all citizens, period, no special treatment. Let them rise or fall on their own.
Are Judges hamstrung in the decisions they hand down? They usually have some options in sentencing. It’s too bad they are not held at least partially accountable for previous lenient sentences. Other people are. Previous crimes are a reasonable predicters of uture behaviors and Judges have some discretion.
MP’s won’t change the criminal code until they’re forced to by constituents. It’s too bad the Supreme Court Justices are hand picked and open to interpretation of our “Constitution” in favour of Criminals rather than victims.
Is being a gang member any different than being a member of a tribe? Isn’t a little intertribal violence a natural cultural expression?
Bring back the death penalty for repeat offenders. When you murder repeatedly, you step outside the law, becoming an “outlaw”. Treat them as such.
Okay everyone, knock it off. His great-grandfather was a residential school “survivor”, mkay?
After a lifetime of crime, including, now, at least three murders, he’s well on his way to becoming a serious criminal. He’d better straighten up before that happens.
Yeah, they might send him to prison if he doesn’t ship up.
Guilty of murder, hang him.
He had started a flea circus, and was turning his lice around…