Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson will request a review of the city's extreme-weather protocols after an online video recently surfaced that showed police officers ordering people who were sheltering in a downtown LRT station to leave on a freezing night. The leader of the local chapter of an Indigenous community watch group took the video Sunday night. Judith Gale from Bear Clan Patrol said she was distributing food to about a dozen people in the Central Station LRT shortly past 8 p.m. when officers approached and told the people to leave. In the video, the officers say the group has to wear masks, which Gale says they had removed to eat. Raw | Video shows Edmonton police forcing people out of LRT station into –21 C weather Video 4:04 The Bear Clan Patrol in Edmonton posted a video to its Facebook page on Sunday, showing Edmonton Police Service officers ordering people who had been sheltering in the Central LRT station to go outside.

Source: CBC News February 17, 2021 03:59 UTC