A Downtown Eastside resident feels like she lost her late mother a second time after Vancouver Police Department officers and city workers trashed a suitcase she says contained the deceased woman’s ashes.

DTES advocates say stories like this are all too common and are calling for a change in the way the possessions of marginalized street people are dealt with by the city and the Vancouver police.

Stacey Mcmillan said she was sitting near the tattered blue plastic tarp that is her home at Hastings

This story was originally published on CBC News. To read the rest of this news worthy story, please visit https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vpd-accused-losing-indigenous-mother-s-ashes-1.6041188?cmp=rss.

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