Great work, it’s so unbelievable that this is happening in our once great country (or so I thought), the one video you posted of the mother being arrested and put into a van was restricted so they blocked it 😡 don’t want people to know how disgusting they were doing this to this poor woman! Omg how can police be so cruel?
Thanks for taking the time to look and comment. The video was likely uploaded by the citizen journalist who filmed it. This person might have had second thoughts about sharing it and took it down but I am just guessing. What struck me in the video was how little background knowledge appeared to have been provided to each of the police officers. Each time a new one started trying to get information from the mother, she needed to start from scratch, trying to explain that it was the social services staff who had initially taken away custody and that the man who had taken the child (her husband) was trying to get the child back. No one came to her staring with that premise. And no one seemed aware of the ability of the child to be safely off the ventilator for up to 7 hours or of how since it was in social services custody, no one had dealt with the need for cranial surgery that was now long overdue, etc. It was clear how stunned and overwhelmed the mother was. Police could have gotten a much clearer background history from the grandmother, if they had thought to ask her. Clearly, the mother was no risk to any officers who could have driven her to the station in an ordinary police car. It is unclear why a SWAT team was ordered in the first place. And it was remarkable how SOON into the third police officer's interview that call was made. Already in 2018, reports were being written about the HUGE increase in SWAT team use for normal, everyday policing matters in Canada up from past decades. It might be that for these specific officers, they were just doing the routine thing, or following a routine protocol, not INTENDING to be cruel???
Great work, it’s so unbelievable that this is happening in our once great country (or so I thought), the one video you posted of the mother being arrested and put into a van was restricted so they blocked it 😡 don’t want people to know how disgusting they were doing this to this poor woman! Omg how can police be so cruel?
Thanks for taking the time to look and comment. The video was likely uploaded by the citizen journalist who filmed it. This person might have had second thoughts about sharing it and took it down but I am just guessing. What struck me in the video was how little background knowledge appeared to have been provided to each of the police officers. Each time a new one started trying to get information from the mother, she needed to start from scratch, trying to explain that it was the social services staff who had initially taken away custody and that the man who had taken the child (her husband) was trying to get the child back. No one came to her staring with that premise. And no one seemed aware of the ability of the child to be safely off the ventilator for up to 7 hours or of how since it was in social services custody, no one had dealt with the need for cranial surgery that was now long overdue, etc. It was clear how stunned and overwhelmed the mother was. Police could have gotten a much clearer background history from the grandmother, if they had thought to ask her. Clearly, the mother was no risk to any officers who could have driven her to the station in an ordinary police car. It is unclear why a SWAT team was ordered in the first place. And it was remarkable how SOON into the third police officer's interview that call was made. Already in 2018, reports were being written about the HUGE increase in SWAT team use for normal, everyday policing matters in Canada up from past decades. It might be that for these specific officers, they were just doing the routine thing, or following a routine protocol, not INTENDING to be cruel???