[IPSM] OPP in Tyendinaga...

[Mike D]

Sorry the earlier version I sent out had just the timeline but not the 
info regarding OPP recruiting in Tyendinaga...


OPP Recruitment Drive

Thursday, Dec 8th/05
  10:00AM

59' Hall, Tyendinaga, Mohawk Nation Territory

Mar. 22, 2005

OPP withdraws from Race Relations Awards Ceremony after learning that 
reporters Peter Edwards and Harold Levy are to be honoured.  Edwards and 
Levy were honoured for outstanding reporting on issues faced by First 
Nations people and particularly in the wake of the OPP shooting death of 
Dudley George and Public Inquiry on Ipperwash.

March 12, 2004

OPP Elite Unit disbanded after allegations officers had defaced a Mohawk 
Unity flag and a poster of an OKA protester from 1990 found in a home on 
the Chippewa of the Thames reserve.  Eight members of the OPP
s Central Tactics and Rescue Unit, a paramilitary outfit based in Barrie, 
were charged with discreditable conduct and deceit.

Nov. 11, 2001

Elderly Nawash woman dies after OPP fail to initiate any meaningful 
search.

On the night of Nov 11/01, Lucy Pedoniquott wandered out of the Wiarton 
Hospital where she was a patient wearing only bedclothes and paper 
slippers.  The Wiarton OPP searched only the grounds of the hospital 
before calling off their search.  When family initiated a search of their 
own, they approached the OPP for assistance.  They were refused even 
requests for flashlights.

At 4PM on November 12th, the OPP
s Emergency Response Team found Lucy, deceased, in the swamp directly 
across from the Wiarton Hospital.

July 5, 2001

60 OPP officers under investigation for circulation of racist emails, 
including autopsy photos of an Indian woman with the accompanying caption: 
Steak knives are good for more than just steak.


September 6, 1995

OPP shooting death of Stoney Point member, Dudley George.  OPP also shot a 
16-year-old boy in the back that evening and beat a Kettle Point band 
councillor unconscious.  Shortly after Dudley
s death family members found OPP commemorative mugs & t-shirts reading 
Team Ipperwash 
95
  with an OPP crest with an arrow through it and others with a feather 
lying horizontal under the OPP crest appearing in some stores in the 
neighbouring town.

Come out and join the team!