Here's the deal

Did some research on the Colton Boushie case and this is what I uncovered:

• The kids in the car were related to the last five chiefs of the Red Pheasant Reserve;
• The kids were:
• Kiora Wuttenee-Campbell, daughter of Sheldon Wuttunee
• Eric Meechance, son of Charles Meechance
• Colton Boushie, nephew of Stewart Baptiste
• Cassidy Cross, related to Wuttunee
• Each chief had been indicted many times, i.e., drunk driving, assault, poaching, fraud, rape and corruption, while in office, and dismissed;
• Red Pheasant has had to spend a substantial percentage of its budget defending these chiefs in court since 2009, draining the band's resources.

Before they vandalized and tried to steal Stanley's vehicle, they had entered another farmer's land, smashed up and tried to steal his.  Unsuccessful, they invaded Stanley's yard, where the shooting happened.  While obviously not committing a death penalty crime, these people were engaging in very risky behaviour in a province where all farmers are armed and anything can happen when strangers enter private property.  Farmers have a lot of expensive assets to protect. 

It now appears Boushie was a welcome distraction which took the spotlight off the mess these band leaders were in, so the band jumped on it.  The whole bunch are linked to the "Native Syndicate", an aboriginal gang formed in 1994 and still active.  You'd think the Minister of Justice would have been able to have found out what I did in a few swaps on the internet!  Her behavioural interventions are illegal in this matter.  And as for the PM.....well.......!!  

I have also learned there were 10 potential native jurors out of 100 in the pool.  That's 10% and in the general population their numbers at 0.3%.  Most recused themselves and those remaining answered questions in a manner that caused the defense to reject them; the prosecution did not exercise its right to reject any jurors.  So folks, this is the reality that journalists fail to report.  Journalists today are unprofessional and lazy -- take it from one who toiled pre-internet, when it was actually difficult digging for the truth.      

When a journalist, I was under scrutiny by ruthless and demanding editors to properly research any topic on which I wrote.  You have to get the "who, what, when, where, why and how" of every story you cover.  That's what professionalism is all about.