Posted: Apr 20, 2021 2:34 PM CT | Last Updated: April 20
Annette Custer, 30, identified herself publicly for the first time Tuesday as the person involved in a violent arrest at a Saskatoon FreshCo last week, when she was pinned to the ground by a FreshCo security guard.(Chanss Lagaden/CBC)
Annette Custer, who identified herself Tuesday as the woman involved in a videotaped incident where she was pinned to the ground by a Saskatoon FreshCo security guard, had her dignity stripped from her, says a lawyer representing the Indigenous woman. Too often … this type of treatment of Indigenous people, especially Indigenous women, goes unnoticed, said Michael Seed, legal counsel for the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations. It gets routed into the shadows and gets forgotten.