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Photo credit: JESSICA LEE / FREE PRESS FILES Brandon Trask is an assistant law professor at the University of Manitoba and a former prosecutor.

CBC News: Winnipeg police officer with history of misconduct allegations accused of wrongful arrests

September 19, 2024 — 

At the beginning of August, over five months later, the phone he used to take the video was finally returned.

One expert CBC spoke to said a Crown attorney would find this a difficult case to prosecute.

“They’d have to ask themselves, ‘Is this in the public interest here?’ You know, this started with a parking ticket,” said Brandon Trask, an assistant law professor at the University of Manitoba and former Nova Scotia Crown attorney.

To read the full story, please visit CBC News

Here is also the tv treatment of the story.

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