Photo of a Winnipeg Police Service shoulder badge on an officer in Winnipeg Tuesday, November 5, 2019. People who attended a rally honouring an Indigenous woman whose remains were recovered at a landfill taped their protest signs to the windows of the Winnipeg Police Service headquarters, demanding officials investigate the death further and search the city's dumps for bodies of other missing women. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
WINNIPEG – Protesters attending a rally honouring an Indigenous woman whose remains were recovered at a landfill taped their protest signs to the windows of the Winnipeg Police Service headquarters, demanding officials investigate the death further and search the city’s dumps for bodies of other missing women.
The Friday afternoon event in memory of Linda Beardy began with attendees blocking the intersection of Portage Avenue and Main Street and was originally going to end with a march to City Hall.
The plans changed, however, and police say approximately 150 people showed up at the force’s headquarters where a large window pane was broken near one of the station’s entrances.
Video of the rally posted to social media showed the broken pane, as well as an attendee on a bullhorn pleading with people not to bang on the windows and instead tape their signs to them.
Police said Thursday that Beardy’s death was not a homicide, saying the mother-of-four was last seen leaving a store and climbing into a garbage bin which was emptied by a truck three hours later.
They say their Major Crimes Unit is investigating the broken window, adding an initial damage estimate is not available.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 8, 2023.
