Indigener Abstammung des Mörders wird wegen der Erschießung seiner Frau in geringerer Strafe angeführt

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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls culprit found

Despicable.

What a good idea from the government!

The article says that the judge ‚considered‘ his indigineity. It doesn’t say how much it reduced his sentence, if at all. It seems to suggest otherwise that a sentence was given in spite of his indigeneity.

Yeah it was cited because it’s a part of judges sentencing in every case. He was drunk as shit because his fucked up upbringing didn’t exactly give him the tools too be a well adjusted functioning member of society, that’s kinda how generational trauma works, it fucks people up.

But that was far from the judges reasoning

>mitigating factors that led the judge to a sentence at “the lower end of the applicable range” were McCook’s lack of criminal record before the shooting, his remorse in custody and during trial, his efforts to rehabilitate while in custody awaiting trial and sentencing and the Kwadacha reintegration plan upon his release.

Not exactly a hardened criminal with no criminal record and the police

> determined that McCook first fired the weapon toward the vehicle from inside the family home, with the bullet hitting Poole in the head.

While Poole was sitting outside, in the truck. So not exactly an intended murder (hence why prosecution couldn’t secure a 2nd degree conviction).

He was drunk as shit and criminally negligent but to say that gladue considerations are why he got a sentence on the lower end of the scale means either a tenuous grasp on basic comprehension or it’s simply a bad faith reading of the facts.

I feel like the national post know what they’re writing so I’m gonna lean to the latter.

The court does not give a fuck because they don’t live in the rez, same reason they don’t care when your car get stolen. It’s not their reality to deal with.

This sort of institutionalised racism will only stop if indigenous nations themselves press the issue and don’t stop.

In Canada a hate crime is:
„… a criminal offence motivated by bias, prejudice, or hate based on an identifiable group’s race, national/ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental/physical disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity/expression.“

Is this considered a Hate Judge?
„… a criminal judgement motivated by bias, prejudice, or hate based on an identifiable group’s race, national/ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental/physical disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity/expression.“

The Gladu Principle clearly must be helping the indigenous peoples of Canada.