‘Should never have ended like that’: Inuk man killed by police in Quebec’s Far North [Video]

A remote northern Quebec community is demanding justice after a man was shot and killed and his twin brother seriously injured by police responding to someone allegedly trying to drive while impaired.

Joshua Papigatuk was killed and his twin brother Garnet is recovering in a Montreal hospital following an altercation with the Nunavik Police Service early Monday in Salluit, an Inuit fly-in community about 1,850 kilometres north of Montreal.

Mosusi Tarkirk is a 24-year-old Salluit resident who grew up with the brothers in the Inuit village and considered them best friends.

“It should never have ended like that,” he said, adding that from what he has heard neither brother was armed. “They get called because someone is about to be driving intoxicated … from that to shooting, they’re (supposed to be) trying to de-escalate situations, that’s not what we saw.”

He said people don’t feel safe since the shooting, the …