A public inquiry into the Nova Scotia mass shooting, which began in Portapique, N.S., and claimed 22 victims, releases its final report on Thursday
On the morning of April 19, 2020, Kristen Beaton, a pregnant 33-year-old nurse, pulled her car over along a wooded stretch of Plains Road in rural Nova Scotia. Social-media posts were vibrating on her phone about an active manhunt for an armed gunman in the area, and she was messaging her husband about the news.
More than 12 hours after the gunman’s neighbours described the fake patrol car in detail to 911 operators, and two hours after the RCMP confirmed its existence and distributed a photo to police agencies across Nova Scotia, the Mounties finally told the public about it, through Twitter. The information came too late to protect Ms. Beaton and Ms. O’Brien.
Lawyers for the gunman’s victims say the RCMP must accept responsibility for those failures and commit to changing the national police force. They called on the Mass Casualty Commission to be blunt in its assessment of those mistakes as it prepares to deliver its recommendations. The CBSA was unaware of an RCMP bulletin that Mr. Wortman had said he wanted to “kill a cop” and other red flags about his weapons and violent assaults because the two agencies did not share that information with each other. The inquiry learned Mr. Wortman was able to smuggle three of the guns he used in his rampage across the U.S. border.
What’s been most troubling for some of the victims’ families is the RCMP’s lack of changes to policy, training or resources in the aftermath of the rampage that killed 22. She stepped down from her position as the country’s top Mountie on March 17, less than two weeks before the inquiry’s final report is to be released. The RCMP says it has begun work to reform the national force in the wake of the inquiry, but couldn’t offer specific examples. It said privacy laws prevented it from confirming if any disciplinary measures have been handed down to any officers connected to the tragedy.
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