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Originally Posted by speede5
Hopefully the assaulter will face charges and justice served, but it doesn't happen as fast as tv land and it's never simple when you are laying this serious of a charge.
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Sure. But this is a case where the RCMP has apparently been willfully nontransparent for inexplicable reasons at this point.
Two days after the young man died they should have released a statement as per usual.
"On July 12, 2017 an incident occurred where a young man was punched. He succumbed to his injuries on July 15, 2017. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has taken over and treating it as a homicide investigation. The assailant has been identified by police and his name will be released if any charges are made. There is no concern to public safety."
Took all of 10 seconds to do if that's the case. Instead the police had to be pushed by a journalist to say that a homicide investigation was even taking place and the public is still left in the dark. The concerned witnesses who saw a man die were probably shocked that there was 0 information. That's not the norm, something is sketch. It could just be incompetency, or the RCMP doesn't think it has to be transparent to the public anymore. Either way it's an absolute disgrace.
I realize there's times that the police can't release a statement like that or it would effect the investigation, there's really nothing in this scenario that would seem to suggest that to be the case here though.