[news] Criminal investigation started into N.W.T. police violence

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CBC News | June 1st 2005 "YELLOWKNIFE - A Crown prosecutor in the Yukon has been asked to look into a case of alleged police brutality in the N.W.T. community of Fort Smith. The prosecutor will decide whether there's enough evidence to proceed with charges against officers in the case of Russell Sikyea. Sikyea says he was being held in the cells in Fort Smith when he started banging on the door, trying to get the officers' attention. When they came, he says one was angry. 'He smacked me. He smacked me across the face. And he grabbed my ear and he started choking me out,' says Sikyea. 'I couldn't yell, I don't know what sound I was making, he was just choking me out.'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/1/11526/87665