Ottawa, June 9 (RHC)-- In Canada, Indigenous leaders are demanding an investigation into the fatal police shooting of an Indigenous woman during a wellness check.  Twenty-six-year-old Chantel Moore was killed Thursday in Edmundston, New Brunswick, by an officer who had responded to a call from one of Moore’s loved ones. 

Police allege Moore threatened the officer with a knife.  The officer then shot her five times.  Moore had recently moved to Edmundston to be closer to her 5-year-old daughter.  She was a member of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation.

In other news from Canada, charges were dropped last week against 22 Wet’suwet’en land defenders and their allies, who were arrested this past February in northern British Columbia after a days-long raid in Indigenous territories where hereditary chiefs have been in a protracted battle to protect their land from the construction of TransCanada’s 400-mile, $4.7 billion Coastal GasLink pipeline.