WINNIPEG - An expert on indigenous people and law enforcement says there were clear signs of systemic racism in the wake of a police shooting in Winnipeg.
Jonathan Rudin, a law professor from Ontario, says the fact that three aboriginal people were handcuffed and put on the ground for 40 minutes after police fatally shot Craig McDougall points to discrimination.
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Rudin is testifying at an inquest into McDougall's death on Aug. 2, 2008.
Police officers have testified they were responding to a disturbance at McDougall's father's home and McDougall ignored repeated warnings to drop a knife.
The inquest has heard that after an officer shot McDougall, his father and two other people were handcuffed and kept on the front lawn until they were taken into police cruisers.
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Rudin told the inquest the people who were handcuffed posed no threat, and would likely not have been treated that way if they were in a non-indigenous middle-class neighbourhood.