SASKATOON An Indigenous man who lives in the city says he’s afraid to leave his home after he claims police used excessive force, leaving him battered and swollen. “They stopped me, they asked me for my name. I have my ticket here what they gave me,” William Favel said during a Zoom news conference organized by the Candian Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP). On the morning of April 2, Favel says he was on 20th Street West making his way towards a community barbecue at the Central Urban Metis Federation Inc., on Avenue M South. He said he was finishing up his weekly 20-kilometre jog, when he noticed a police car driving past him a few times before eventually stopping in front of him.
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