Cops routinely execute investigative detentions of suspect and informants; the captive CANNOT leave until the cop completes his investigation. If the matter is referred to a Specialty division, captivity is even longer. In stark contrast, a suspect cop receives the privilege of preparing a lawyered statement, which abridges any inculpatory scope of the issue at hand. In effect: cops seize a privilige of concocting an exhoneratory statement. And once same is made, the loyalty code engages.

As for the content of the reference letter above: ask yourselves if it is tenable. Ben Meisner, myself and others doubted Cst Koester's account of the 2 minutes and 8 second time frame, in which he shot Ian Bush. Suspicion is warranted whenever cops investigate cops.

Somewhat OT but Taser lost its first suit (actually they have paid off 10 cops who were injured during training). Although, their actual liability will be 15% of 6.2 million, the Federal Court verdict will likely stand. At the Braidwood hearing into the YVR incident, the chief of the company admitted that his company had omitted to study physiological aspects of Taser contact. In the successful suit, it was learned that cops tasered a man 22 times. The 4 cops claimed that physical restraint was not an option. Prior to the loss, Taser won over 50 liability cases, although issues raised in this particular matter are novel.

http://www.williamson-krauss.com/verdicts_settlements.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aYJitFRQLpZk&refer=us

http://mediaserver.prweb.com/pdfdownload/408322/6/pr.pdf

having followed this in the news, mostly through MEISNER, I could be wrong but there could be a rational explanation for this. Maybe the information in the press release came from the radio tape or maybe somebody asked the supervisor, Cst HACKER?
Or maybe it was Professor Plum in the library with the candle stick, for all of you conspiracy people!

lol...could've been squirrel who knows. I will read this statement when I have some quiet time tonight. Need to go enjoy the sunny day.

Very exculpatory statement - no surprise after 5 days of thinking about it. Maybe Lewis had weapons of mass destruction hidden in the firewood piles.

I didn't relize this was a statement at first, I thought it was the script to the next Die Hard movie.

It is not the statement from Brewer himself that I have an issue with,it is the time factor involved before it was actually and formally made.
We saw the same thing with Const.Koester? in the Bush case.
(he took a much longer time actually)
I guess my question is this...would a citizen being detained for shooting someone in a similar situation (self- defence?) be allowed to take as much time as he liked before making a statement?
And would he not be detained until he made that statement,among other things?
Just curious.

Ben Meisner reported on the first day of the inquest that an hour long video re-enactment by the cop was done on the Wednesday afternoon, less than three days after the incident, and it was played at the inquest. As well, it might have been a bit tricky for the cop to type, as I do recall seeing photos on TV of his arm in a cast? I dont remember any big controversy over discrepancies between the two accounts in the media.

I know you cop hating conspiracy buffs are going to hate me for this one too. The last line of the statement says that the cop was released from the hospital at approximately 0400 hrs on the 14th, which brings this time line into a bit more reasonable perspective. Maybe the doctors and hospital staff are involved in the cover-up (fake cast?)

The time factor for when the statement was made by Cst. Brewer is not an issue for me. He put in a full shift, went to the station to turn over his uniform etc, went to hospital and got rest. It was little more than a day, not five days.
Curious as to why so many officers showed up when the Cst called for an ambulance. Also nice to learn that it isn't only the public that has trouble at times getting emergency to the proper location. I see the RCMP have the same issue, or at least Brewer did on this night. What I don't get is why did they wait so long to administer first aid? Why did they wait at the camp? Wouldn't they go directly to the shot prisoner? It appears from Brewer's statement the arriving officers weren't interested in the prisoner only the camp. Maybe it is just me, but isn't this odd??

I hope there is ultimately enough incontrovertible evidence to exonerate this young man - not only to the satisfaction of his brethren on the force but in the eyes of the general public as well. I couldn't do that job and I am so grateful that there are people out there who can and do. It must be incredibly difficult to have to react instantly to a violent situation and then afterwards to have to justify every thought, word and action. I doubt that many of us could do that to anyone's satisfaction. That's the job they accept but it's a tough one and I wish this young man the best.

looks to me like mr. don lee or whomever he was - challenged the law and lost with his life , had his parents brought him up to respect the law he would still have his life and had to face some non life threatening charges.seems he was going to aviod any contact with the law and may have had a previous experience with lawmen or had a mental deficiency that caused him to flee,cole brewer could have let him flee and turn it into a manhunt the next day with maybe better or perhaps worse results.we will never know -what is done is done.

There must always be two officers dispatched on every call they get to instill some sort of credibility to their stories.
Even then there will always be some doubt shed upon what really happened at every situation where someone dies or is badly hurt by the police. Take the Vanderhoof shooting for instance. The shooter says he shot the guy while he was laying on his back with the victim over top of him.
The other female officer said thats not what she witnessed, go figure.
Like I have said before, no one knows what really happened that day except the cop.
If I was in his situation I would be doing whatever it took to save my ass.

"I guess my question is this...would a citizen being detained for shooting someone in a similar situation (self- defence?) be allowed to take as much time as he liked before making a statement?
And would he not be detained until he made that statement,among other things?
Just curious."

Individuals, citizens and police, do not have to provide a statement. One is not obliged to say anything. If one chooses to, they can speak during an interview, through a lawyer or write out a prepared statement.

This is what Brewer said on the stand:

"He awoke at that time and I talked to him asking him how he got the motorcycle. He gave me the wrong name and I became more suspicious. He then, all of a suddenly bolted and began running down the hill."

In his statement (pages 2 and 3) he stated quite a few things that was spoken of before Don Lewis "bolted" from him. Now didn't he think the jury would want to hear that part?



This is what Brewer said on the stand:

"During the fight, I tried to get my baton released and eventually was able to, I hit him twice with it, with little effect. At that point, I pulled my pepper spray out and tried to point it at him, but I don’t know where it went. We kept getting up, then fall and wrestle some more down the hill.”
Brewer went on to say Lewis made a threat “After we had fallen down several times he said I’m gonna to kill you F---er, and he was trying to grab my gun and I was trying to prevent him from getting it out of the holster. I got my gun out and hit him with the gun butt knocking him down, and we kept fighting. He got his finger into my eyeball and somewhere during that, I fired one shot at him."

In his statement (page 4) he says:

"With my left hand I grab my OC spray. I try and aim it at his face. We were still fighting, but I managed to discharge the OC in his general facial area. I do not know if the stream hit him in the face. I knew that my OC spray canister was only 25-30% full at the start of my shift and I emptied the can.
He was trying to grab my left arm now. I dropped the OC spray canister."

He says on stand: "He got his finger into my eyeball and somewhere during that, I fired one shot at him."

But in his statement he says a lot more of a struggle happened after the eyeball incident before he shot him. (Page 5) Again didn't he think the jury would like to hear the whole story? Nerves maybe?

We expect the jury to come up with recommendations on how to prevent such deaths from happening again but why not have some sort of "staff meeting" in each detachment coming up with their own recommendations on how they expect things to be done each time a new officer is brought in to prevent an inquest from entering the picture?

Brewer asked Cst. Mike Hacker if he'd like him to wait until 2 more members were on shift and Hacker said to attend the scene while it was still light out...sending Brewer alone. And there ya have it.....alone. Hacker should've thought of safety first but no he was trying to save daylight hours over someones life. But really how bad would it have been for Brewer to simply refuse to go alone?

heidi, were you there at the inquest? or were you on the mountain in Mcleese Lake? Lots of insight

Sorry for the snap heidi. I just get mad at conspiracy theories. I just say this, how long ago did this happen? If this statement is posted here on the internet, I can only assume that it was in the hands of Cameron Ward and Sara Lewis while Cst Brewer was giving his testimony at the inquest. And again, if there were glaring inconsistencies or even minor ones for that matter, I am sure that the media would have went bananas, and for sure it would not have slipped passed Ben Meisner, and these articles would have a very different slant. Maybe Ben Meisner is in on the conspiracy?

Well really it wasn't a conspiracy theory I didn't think. I was comparing his own statement to his own words at inquest. What I had in mind really was not Brewer himself but if he had any help in making his statement to better please the public. eg. his lawyer/fiancee/friends/coworkers input like in Koester's case.
Also, did Brewer say on the stand if he carried Mr. Lewis at all like he stated in the original statement on page 6? Also, on his way out to get help why would he take time to stop and pick up his pepperspray bottle and baton? Every second matters here. Oh anyway just some questions I had....have a good day.