A lawyer of one of the three BC Monteies faced the code of conduct of the procedures to make racist and sexist comments in the online group chats accused the leadership of his detachment to send an “inflammatory” email on Tuesday that they comment on the tests of the officers.
The accusation came a day after const. Ian Solven testified extensively what he described as a toxic workplace and a failure on the part of the RCMP leadership to respond to the stress and concerns of the first -line officers.
“I will not enter the entire content of the email,” said Solven’s lawyer Brad Kielmann, to the Board of the Code of Conduct of three people.
“It is an email of the entire leadership team of the Coquitlam detachment, throughout the position, doing what I can only describe as highly inflammatory comments about the members of the subjects, commenting on their evidence and making other editorialisms about them.”
CBC News has not seen the letter.
A second revelation
The RCMP wants Solven, const. Philip Dick and const. Mersad Mesbah fired publications to a private chat group in the signal application and the messages sent through the internal mobile data messaging system of the RCMP.
The existence of the email, which Kielmann described as “highly problematic”, was one of the two revelations to rock the procedures on Tuesday, with a lawyer from the RCMP behavior authority that told the Board that a New Witness had also presented himself to challenge Solven’s tests.
According to RCMP lawyers, an official partner who Solven and the others had mocked using the “large” epithet to make fun of his size contacted an inspector with the RCMP on Monday night to disagree with the characterization of Solven of his relationship.
On Monday, Solven said he approached the woman to apologize shortly after realizing that the comments made on the RCMP internal messaging system were about to be subject to a complaint.
“I told him that I made some comments about his size and that we had a good talk and apologized to her,” Solven told his lawyer in direct testimony.
“I simply said: ‘Some of the things you have done at work have frustrated me, and I did it personal and made some comments about your weight. She said:’ You have also frustrated me at work, and I have made some comments about you ‘, and we only laugh. And we move on and we still talk to her regularly.”
On Tuesday, a RCMP lawyer told the Board that the official woman gave a statement to the RCMP that gave her an opinion about the events.
“[She] Finally, it was disclosed for the effect that const. Solven lied in his testimony, “he said.
“And beyond that, I think it is fair to say based on the preliminary information that [she] Take a very different vision of the relationship I had/has with Agent Solven. “
The audience of the Board of Conduct was learned early on Tuesday morning to give time to the lawyers on both sides to decide how to proceed with the information.
The audience was expected, which has already faced multiple delays, listening to Dick on Tuesday.
‘Moving penis team’
During his testimony, Solven apologized so he said they were little characteristic comments in some of the messages he published, but tried to explain the context around others, including one in which he seemed to joke about clogging a suspicious black unarmed black.
The officer said he referred to an incident in which he was called to a scene in which he used his energy weapon conducted to demolish a black suspect that threatens people with a syringe in front of a multitude of several hundred.
Solven said he was concerned that a “three -second clip” of the interaction was the news.
“I know that RCMP is not the best to defend its members publicly,” he said.
“And I worried that I was going to be thrown under the bus for this situation in which I was doing my job.”
During his testimony, Solven spoke extensively about conflicts between the members of the general duty and the members of special units, including the main crimes and the prolific criminal aimed at the team, whom he referred to as the “moving team of the penis” in a message.
He also gave an example of what he said was “management did not really care about what happened to us” when he said they refused to take measures against an officer who registered during a call in the entire position in the detachment of two officers who feared for their lives.
Towards the end of his testimony on Monday, Solven said he turned to “black humor” to deal with surveillance stress.
“It reminds me of how frustrated and the angry thing I was left to resolve all this without support from supervisors or senior management,” he said.
