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When J.J. Harper of the Island Lake Tribal Council was fatally shot on a wintry Winnipeg street in 1988, the city police department was quick to absolve the officer involved from all blame. Less than a day after the shooting, Police Chief Herb Stephen announced that Harper had died during a struggle for Constable Robert Cross's gun.
But the truth was not so cut and dried. Far from closing the case, Stephen's remarks were just the start of this dramatic tale of sex, death, threats, flimsy charges, and a police force so out of control that a prominent lawyer, a senior Crown attorney, and a respected journalist all had reason to suspect they were being watched by the police.
Pursued doggedly by Winnipeg Free Press columnist Gordon Sinclair Jr., the stranger-than-fiction story of the shooting of J.J. Harper points a finger at the growing disaster of race relations and policing in Canada's inner cities.
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Brian Roland
reviewed Cowboys and Indians: The Shooting of J. J. Harper on January 17, 2012
Cowboys and Indians
This Arthur Ellis award winning true crime account depicts the change of culture that began in the wake of the shooting of J.J. Harper by Winnipeg police. Focussing in large part on the unfolding of the inquiry processes that led to a major overall of criminal justice approaches to Aboriginal peoples and communities, it is a painful read. It highlights the forces within the criminal justice system not through some distant condemnation, but through the personalities and lives of those caught up in this story. While some "heroes" and "villains" do seem to emerge, these categories are too sweeping to capture the mixed feelings one has while meeting the characters.
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