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Police Chief Mark Neufeld says the officer who offered a handshake to an anti-mask protester at Chinook Centre wasn’t endorsing the man’s views.
The chief addressed the incident, which was caught on video, at a Tuesday meeting of the Calgary police commission.
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Police commission chair Bonita Croft said the officer’s actions have been “a lightning rod for criticism” and asked CPS to address their strategy for dealing with the ongoing protests
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CALGARY A justice studies professor at Mount Royal University says police did nothing inherently wrong when asking the majority of maskless protesters to leave a Calgary shopping mall this weekend. “The people that are upset with the officers actions are part of that group that are saying we should be cracking down tougher on these people, we should be arresting them, everyone should be getting a fine, all of those kinds of things,” said Doug King. “That in some ways is unrealistic, because how do you issue fines to 200 people when you only have five officers there?” King says Saturday’s protest at Chinook Centre, where an officer was seen shaking hands and embracing organizers might be construed in the wrong way.
Calgary police say a handshake between an officer and anti-mask protester caught on video at Chinook Centre during a rally Saturday was the end to peaceful…