An Alberta family is asking RCMP to explain its use of force against an Indigenous man after he was thrown on the ground and knocked unconscious this week.
The incident caught on video happened Tuesday, Oct. 1 in Lac La Biche, located about 200 km northeast of Edmonton.
Dennis Boucher, 43, was walking towards an RCMP vehicle and put his hands up in what appeared to be a gesture of surrender.
The video shows the Mountie approaching Boucher, before slamming him into the ground and pulling his hands behind his back.
“I wasn’t sure if he was alive,” his mother, Christine Boucher, told Global News on Thursday.
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The mother has security video from the family home, showing an earlier interaction between her son and the officer. She said Boucher had come home intoxicated and was trying to enter his home.
“I have a door keypad and he couldn’t get in. The next thing I see is a police officer walking …