N.B. mayor addresses impact on community from Stanley trial
North Battleford Mayor Ryan Bater took a few minutes at the start of a city council meeting Monday to express his sympathies for everyone involved surrounding the death of Colten Boushie.
He also spoke about the difficult trial process that took place over the past two weeks.
On Friday, a jury announced its verdict of not guilty in Gerald Stanley’s trial at Court of Queen’s Bench. Stanley had been facing a charge of second degree murder in the fatal shooting of Boushie, from Red Pheasant First Nation, on Stanley’s farm yard property in Aug. 2016.
“Many people were impacted by that incident, and the recent trial… A lot of families were impacted,” said Bater. “This has been very difficult for a lot of people. [It’s] to recognize that there are people whose lives have been impacted by this forever.”