The members of a RCMP Behavior Board sat with the stone face on Wednesday as a lawyer of three mountains that face accusations of racism and sexism accused them of “indignified and silly” behavior when referring to their clients as “the three friends” in emails and file names.
Wes Dutcher-Walls asked the court members to withdraw from the case, claiming that the three references of friends evoke connotations, including tourists from Boca Fuerte, a 1986 film of 1986 and “everything for one and one for everything” brotherhood of the three musketeers.
The lawyer said that the members of the Board had created the appearance of a “real or perceived” bias that suggested a broader pattern of skepticism and dismissal towards the Coquitlam agents RCMP Philip Dick, Ian Solven and Mersad Mesbah.
“I imagine that you are angry with me for bringing this accusation,” Dutcher-Walls told the Board members before telling them “to take it” if they were.
“It is not necessary that you register and say: ‘Actually, I am partial’ … you can say that a reasonable person could perceive the bias … please do the right thing … Remove yourself.”
‘Black Disassembly Tasering’
The code of the code of conduct against Dick, Mesbah and Solven were scheduled to start in Surrey this week, but were delayed after the last minute challenge request. The members of the Board are expected to decide Friday morning if they are set aside.
The RCMP wants the three mountains to dismiss for their alleged participation in the conversations of private chat groups in which the officers are accused of boasting to “click on the unarmed blacks” by calling an investigation of “stupid” sexual aggression and make fun of the body of a new employee.
These accusations came to light last autumn after the release of an order to search behavior of counting that led to the officer who caused the investigation to complain to the RCMP brass on what he saw as an “atrocious” and “racist and” racist activity horrible “of his colleagues.
The Court documents claim that the investigators also reviewed 600,000 messages published in the internal records of RCMP mobile data chat, finding evidence of “frequently offensive use” use by the three officers who face the termination for “homophobic and racist insults “
“The reviewers had identified a variety of comments that were” of a chauvinist nature, with a strong air of superiority, and include frivolous or insulting comments about customers (including objective women), supervisors, colleagues, policies and RCMP as a whole. ” “Said the search warrant.
‘How far are we going to carry this?’
The three mounties have denied the accusations against them.
They sat next to the other behind their lawyers on Wednesday when Dutcher-Walls exchanged spikes with RCMP lawyer John McLaughlan, who said that “there was no substantive evidence” to say that the word “friends” was destined to transmit something else beyond its Spanish meaning: “Friends.”
“Here we go again,” McLaughlan said at the beginning of his response, mocking Dutcher’s walls for including a poster of three friends films in his presentations.
The RCMP lawyer pointed out, like Dutcher-Walls, what a friend is also the name of a panqueque house in Port Coquitlam that was a popular meeting place for RCMP officers.
“How far are we going to carry this?” McLaughlan asked.
“There is a television program called Friends”
McLaughlan accused the Dutch walls of setting up an 11 -hour attempt designed to put aside the previous decisions of the Board. He also said that the ‘Three Friends’ attack line emerged as a result of a “fishing expedition” through the files of the Board.
‘The 11 hour is always a good moment’
Dutcher-Walls said that the information arose in the recent dissemination rounds where it arose that the term three friends had emerged in meetings and electronic emails between the staff and the members of the Board. He said the term was also attached to a file folder on the case.
“It is part of the vernacular language of the way this Board has come to refer to the matter,” said the lawyer.
“This case has had a long history. I can only imagine how many times you have looked at that folder.”
Dutcher-Walls told the Board that “it would be surprised a lot if you left and admit that you do not like my clients”, but said that the behavior of the members of the court had thrown a “potential bias stain” on the audience.
“The 11 hour is always a good time for the appearance of justice,” he said.
“At this point, the fish jumped from the water to our boat and the behavior authorities ask us to ignore that and continue in Canoa. It is not a fishing expedition.”
