Years after the bodies of two young Indigenous women and an Indigenous girl were separately discovered across Metro Vancouver in disturbing circumstances, investigations into how the Vancouver Police Department handled the three cases have been launched, CBC News has learned.
During the spring of 2022, the bodies of 14-year-old Noelle O’Soup, 24-year-old Chelsea Poorman and 20-year-old Tatyanna Harrison were discovered within weeks of each other.
A Vancouver police officer is facing a misconduct investigation in connection with O’Soup’s death. An investigation into the VPD’s handling of Poorman’s case was announced in January.
Seems like the VPD didn’t learn anything from their failure to recognize Pickton’s serial killing spree.
As always, ACAB.
My mum was at a party a few months before Pickton started being investigated, he was there and invited her to an after party at his. Luckily one of her friends knew his reputation for having Native women disappear from his property and warned her not to go.
When people say that the FN community feels hostile or standoffish to them, suspicious of them…they never seem to remember that we’re still actively being oppressed in a lot of ways. There’s almost never an admission to the wrongs still being committed against the First Nations people in Canada and the US.
