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THUNDER BAY – A Thunder Bay police officer has been found guilty of neglect of duty and discreditable conduct for his role in the 2015 investigation into the death of Stacy DeBungee, with the adjudicator in the case concluding Staff Sgt. Shawn Harrison’s mishandling of the investigation was based on racial bias.
“Staff Sgt. Harrison failed to treat or protect the deceased and his or her family equally and without discrimination because the deceased was Indigenous,” adjudicator Greg Walton concluded in his decision. However, Walton said after reviewing evidence and testimony in the case, he was “convinced that because the deceased person was Indigenous, found in a river where other Indigenous men had been found drowned, with a high level of alcohol in their system, [Harrison] assumed the very same circumstances must have therefore existed in this case.”
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