CBC Manitoba: Woman’s 2020 death in RCMP cell shows need for Thompson detox centre: inquest

An expert who testified during the inquest said they suspected bias, systemic racism and anti-Indigenous racism in health care may have contributed to Samuel’s death in several ways.

Dr. Marcia Anderson, the vice-dean of Indigenous health, social justice and anti-racism at the University of Manitoba’s health sciences faculty, testified that physicians noted Samuel’s alcohol use during each of the 11 trips she made to the ER in January 2020.

Her visits to the Thompson ER “showed a pattern of anti-Indigenous stereotypes and bias,” Anderson said. “Sometimes the wording was an apparent assumption of her social issues.”

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