B.C. researcher starts project to document Indigenous deaths in police custody

An independent researcher is calling for greater transparency around deaths in police custody in B.C., saying they disproportionately affect Indigenous people.

Leonard Cler-Cunningham, a researcher who has documented the deaths of Indigenous people in custody for decades and co-authored research into violence against sex workers in Vancouver, held a news conference Tuesday to launch the Not In The Public Interest website.

It contains statistics relating to in-custody deaths, and videos of previous deaths involving Indigenous people.

He says the website’s title draws from one of the reasons that his numerous freedom of information requests regarding in-custody deaths were denied — that the requests were “not in the public interest.”

Multiple appeals to the Office of the

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