More than 100 people gathered in downtown Vancouver on Saturday calling for justice for Chantel Moore, an Indigenous woman from B.C. who was shot and killed by police in Edmundston, N.B.
More than 100 people gathered in downtown Vancouver on Saturday calling for justice for Chantel Moore, an Indigenous woman from B.C. who was shot and killed by police in Edmundston, N.B.
The event in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery was one of several tributes held across the country for Moore, 26, who was killed by police during a wellness check on June 4. She was originally from Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation.
During a healing walk in Edmunston, Moore’s family called for a pubic inquiry into her death and questioned how a wellness check could turn fatal.
In Vancouver, Diana Day, lead matriarch of the Pacific Association of First Nations Women, said systemic racism in Canada has been putting Indigenous women at risk for hundreds of years.
“The system is failing us drastically, miserably,” she said.
“There needs to be some changes, some very drastic changes so that we can ensure that our women are protected and safe, and that they go to t