Police Took 6 Days of Pictures of Injuries to Constable in Don Lewis Case

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 04:22 AM

Williams Lake, B.C. - A Coroner's Jury in Williams Lake, has been told how in August of 2006, a number of RCMP officers, a lawyer, and Constable Cole Brewer (the man who shot Don Lewis) met at the Oasis Cafe in McLeese Lake and then in a parking lot before a video was shot to re-enact the shooting scene.

Also on hand for the meeting was Brewer's brother, who is a police Sergeant. The jury had been instructed earlier not to place any weight on the walk through video as evidence at the inquest.

Cameron Ward, Counsel for the dead man's family, repeatedly asked if a normal person would receive the same treatment in being allowed to have his lawyer present before making a statement or conducting an enactment of the crime scene, Ident Sergeant Monita said people who are being investigated rarely agree to do that.

At the same time the Ident Sergeant was asked why he took pictures of Constable Cole Brewer's injuries on August 13^th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 21^st, but did not take finger print samples from Brewer's gun to confirm the claim that Lewis tried to get the gun from Brewer just before the fatal shot was fired.

Monita said the gun was greasy and he didn’t think he could get any prints off of it. He also said he did not know why no DNA or other evidence was obtained from under the finger nails of Lewis to support Brewer's statement that Lewis had grabbed him by the eye ball. No police reports were ever filed to say there was any DNA or other evidence.

"Did you take all of the pictures to support your fellow worker?"asked Ward. "No" said Sergeant Monita. Ward also asked why 11 members of the 45 member Williams Lake detachment attended the scene just after the shooting.

Late Tuesday, Constable Brewer took the stand to testify as to what he said took place leading up the shooting.

He told the inquest he had served with the Canadian Armed Forces in Bosnia before joining the RCMP. He testified he had served as a Sergeant in charge of a group of 8 men.

Brewer is expected to continue his testimony today.

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Comments

Posted by: northern taxpayer on June 4 2008 6:06 AM

Oh boy ! don't shoot yourself in both feet, listen to your mother "always tell the truth and you will stay out of trouble " I used to get my mouth washed out with soap for lying or swearing - a bit ruthless by todays dr. spock methods, but it seemed to work in my case.one thing i found out early was in telling the truth all of the parts of the incident fit ,nothing added, nothing taken away and the respect was earned- you have your reputation and it is yours to maintain and keep it in good standing - always.

Posted by: metalman on June 4 2008 8:05 AM

Smells like a cover up.
metalman.

Posted by: heidi1555 on June 4 2008 8:47 AM

They need to fix this rookie problem we all live under.

Posted by: lostfaith on June 4 2008 8:52 AM

Never admit to nothing. Make them prove your guilt.

Posted by: owl on June 4 2008 9:02 AM

Williams Lake obviously is not CSI Miami .... welcome to the real world of forensic investigation ...

11 police to view the scene?? ..... did they charge admission?

:-(

Posted by: ammonra on June 4 2008 9:16 AM

I find it interesting that a video re-enactment is being given as "evidence" in this event, but a re-enactment was refused in the Ian Bush event. Why?

Posted by: owl on June 4 2008 9:28 AM

different coroner ....

Posted by: Truth on June 4 2008 9:04 PM

Killer-cop Koester refused to recreate his shooting of Ian Bush because it would deliver inculpatory evidence to Crown Counsel. Cops Obstruct Justice unless it serves their purpose of putting their own slugs above the law. The RCMP is the biggest organized crime gang in Western Civilization.