The outcome seems insufficient given how the circumstances was presented. Also coming from these type of places, a decent leader would have told the 2 idiots to cut that shit out before it got to that point.

Truro Police Service security camera footage obtained in August by CBC News shows two officers leaving the detachment in pouring rain — one is carrying a banana. The pair enter an unmarked police vehicle.

As the vehicle drives through the adjoining parking lot, the peel is tossed from the passenger-side window. It lands on Bowden’s truck.

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Bowden and a Truro police inspector both said the banana peel may have been part of an ongoing workplace joke about slipping on a banana peel, according to submissions in the Police Act investigatio

Also stuff like this has been why police unions is the single union I refuse to support.

Union declines representation The Atlantic Police Association, Bowden's union, declined to represent him, saying it is a prosecution against another member. In June, the labour board said there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate that there may have been a breach of the duty of fair representation.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

I would like to see a study on what percentage of police budgets actually get spent on policing and not heroes sitting home on paid vacations. This is not rare. I only know three cops, and two are never working yet seem to have rich lifestyles.