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Labrador man denied long-sought hearing about his detainment for a tweet (www.ctvnews.ca)
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A Labrador man has lost his bid for a long-sought public hearing about his detainment by police in 2015 at a mental health hospital for a post he made on social media.

A ruling dated Thursday by an adjudicator with the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary's Public Complaints Commission says a public hearing would be "desirable," but Andrew Abbass did not file his complaint soon enough against retired Sgt. Tim Buckle.

Abbass said in an interview that he is frustrated by chief adjudicator John Whalen's conclusion, but he hopes there will be an appeal.

Whalen's decision says Abbass was detained by members of the force in April 2015 and kept for six days at a hospital, allegedly because of tweets he wrote in response to the fatal shooting by police of Donald Dunphy that month in St. Mary's Bay, N.L.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Abbass said he did not file a complaint right away because he did not understand the circumstances of his arrest until a public inquiry into Dunphy's death revealed that Buckle and another officer texted about Abbass's arrest and referred to him as a "loser."

As always, ACAB.

[–] voracitude 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So the police just outright abduct and intimidate citizens they don't like, in Canada?

Where do they think they are, America?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Google "starlight tours". Canadian police love abducting people and doing far worse than putting them in a mental hospital.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Cops are cops everywhere. Which is why ACAB is appropriate everywhere as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I couldn't find the tweet in the article, but found it in this one from last year: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/andrew-abbass-rnc-complaints-1.6967702

Abbass tweeted: "How about this, premier of N.L.: I'm going to bring down Confederation and have politicians executed. Ready to have me shot, coward?"

The tweet, he admits, was meant to antagonize.

"I figured they would arrest me."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Wasting resources once again. Reduce the rcmp bloat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean, he seems like an unwell person who is tweeting death threats at a politician, so being detained and placed on a psych hold isn't completely out of the question.

The issue is that he wasn't charged with anything. If they charged him with uttering threats during this process, there likely wouldn't be an issue with how he was detained.