Thunder Bay, Ont., police probing racist online comments allegedly made by cop
THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Police in Thunder Bay, Ont., are investigating allegations that racist comments posted on a local newspaper’s Facebook page were made by members of the police service.
They say a reporter for APTN News provided investigators with a number of comments which appeared on the Chronicle-Journal’s Facebook page regarding a letter from Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler.
Fiddler’s letter to the paper was in response to an editorial on a reported incident during an education session for police on indigenous issues.
A number of specific comments posted on Sept. 17 and 18 in relation to Fidler’s letter are now the subject of a Police Services Act investigation by the TBPS Professional Standards Unit.