Officers and civilian staff with the Thunder Bay Police Service were recognized in an exemplary service awards ceremony that had been suspended for years due to COVID-19.
The jailers and watch commanders working at the Thunder Bay Police Service headquarters testified in the coroner’s inquest into the deaths of Don Mamakwa and Roland McKay and revealed a lack of information sharing that may have resulted in an unclear understanding of Mamakwa’s condition the night he died
Don Mamakwa of Kasabonika Lake First Nation had a 97 per cent chance of surviving the night if he had been brought to hospital instead of a Thunder Bay, Ont., police cell in August 2014, an emergency-room physician tells an inquest.
On the third day of an inquest into the deaths of two Indigenous men while in Thunder Bay Police custody, Const. Ryan Krupa apologized to the families of Don Mamakwa and Roland McKay for his role in both arrests.