RSS FeedOPP Officer Murdered, Tragic Irony…
First and foremost, R.I.P.
Unfortunately, as the reports circle around the internet, PC Vu Pham, 37, has succumb from his injuries he received in a shooting this morning. Pham leaves behind a wife and three children and a community, in which he was deeply involved, in mourning for his sudden, tragic, and senseless murder.
The 70 year old suspect’s name has not been released, but he will undoubtedly be charged above all else with first degree murder.
It is reported that PC Pham, a Vietnamese immigrant and veteran officer of 15 years, was attempting to stop a suspect vehicle from a report of domestic violence. If this is the case, it is the worst kind of irony, because today, March 08, is International Women’s Day. A day that in part is aimed at preventing violence against women.
This is the second police officer who has been killed in the line of duty in a week in Ontario. On Monday, March 01, Artem “James” Ochakovsky, a Peel Regional Police officer died in a traffic accident when his police cruiser hit another car and then wrapped around a telephone poll.
Although the deaths of Ochakovsky and Pham are different in nature, they are tragic to the community and especially the policing community.
I will save my personal opinion for my personal website, and if you are at all interested in reading it, follow this link.
Lawlessness
Caledonia family lived ‘terrified existence’
Barbara Brown writes for the Hamilton Spectator:
A Caledonia family lived inside “a war zone,” says a Hamilton lawyer whose clients will testify about being trapped inside the barricades during the 2006 native occupation of the Douglas Creek Estates.
Former OPP Commish to Review UWO Arrest…
The University of Western Ontario has hired former Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner and lawyer Gwen Boniface to review the violent arrest of Irnes Zeljkovic according to a London Free Press article and from UWO Communications.
The arrest garnered an overwhelming response from the students at UWO and media alike:
(This version of the video was used because the original has been flagged for violence and there are issues posting it here. For an opportunity to see the original, go to the link at the bottom of this post for my original article).
The review seeks to answer the following questions:
- Whether the situation was preventable.
- The training and resources available to campus police.
- Procedures for securing areas where an incident is occurring.
- Campus police co-ordination with London police.
It is also expected that students will be gathering at 4 p.m. at the University Community Centre once again to protest the treatment of Zeljkovic.
It has also been revealed that the London Police Service is conducting it’s own review into the arrest.
For a review of my original take of this article see this Law Is Cool article.
Crime or trifle?
Mother of baby left in car faces charges
“She was so calm, so indifferent to what I was saying to her, it didn’t seem to have any impact on her,” Landreville said. “I wanted somebody louder than me to say, ‘Wake up, woman, you can’t do this.’”
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