Canada ‘must do better’: Justice Minister reacts to Gerald Stanley verdict

Source: The Canadian Press, February 10, 2018 

BATTLEFORD, Sask. – Federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says Canada “can and must do better” after a white farmer was acquitted in the shooting death of a young Indigenous man.

A reportedly all-white jury in Battleford, Saskatchewan deliberated 13 hours before finding 56-year-old Gerald Stanley not guilty of second degree murder in the 2016 death of 22-year-old Colten Boushie from the Red Pheasant First Nation.

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