[news] VPD Chief Slams PIVOT

[Resist!ca]

Vancouver Police Chief Jamie Graham does not take kindly to criticism. Just weeks after publicly flaming Julie Berg, who has been campaigning for justice for her brother Jeff since he was killed after being struck in the neck and head by a violent cop (Graham also later said this thug "deserves a medal" for killing Jeff), Graham is on the offensive against the Pivot Legal Society, who he slams as an "activist group." Two pieces follow on Graham's contemptuous dismissal of Pivot's findings on systemic harassment and brutality against drug users and the homeless in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and Pivot's response to same (please note the Canadian Press headline which reports the Police Chief's dismissal of the Pivot report as fact).

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/2/338/17090