Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is condemning police brutality in the wake of an allegedly violent altercation between Gatineau police officers and a Senegalese diplomat.
Last week, Senegal’s government alleged Gatineau, Que., police exercised “humiliating physical and moral violence” on the diplomat by handcuffing and beating her in an altercation that ended with the diplomat’s hospitalization.
The Gatineau Police Service say that a person punched one officer and bit another during the Aug. 2 incident.
On Monday, Freeland was asked what about the incident was unacceptable and whether Canada has apologized to Senegal. Senegal’s government had called on Ottawa to “vigorously denounce and strongly condemn this racist and barbaric act.”
“Any instance of brutality,
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