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An RCMP officer convicted of obstruction of justice in the death of an Indigenous man while in custody in 2017 has been handed 18 months probation by a court in British Columbia. The BC Prosecution Service says Const. Arthur Dalman received the probation order with various conditions, which will give him a criminal record. Dalman was convicted in July 2024 for ordering witnesses to delete video footage taken at the time Dale Culver was arrested in Prince George in 2017, and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association had said that officers beat the man and used pepper spray during the arrest. Culver, who was 35 years old, was Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en, and police said at the time that they had received a report about a man casing vehicles and found a… <\/p>\n

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An RCMP officer convicted of obstruction of justice in the death of an Indigenous man while in custody in 2017 has been handed 18 months probation by a court in British Columbia. The BC Prosecution Service says Const. Arthur Dalman received the probation order with various conditions, which will give him a criminal record. Dalman was convicted in July 2024 for ordering witnesses to delete video footage taken at the time Dale Culver was arrested in Prince George in 2017, and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association had said that officers beat the man and used pepper spray during the arrest. Culver, who was 35 years old, was Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en, and police said at the time that they had received a report about a man casing vehicles and found a... <\/p>\n

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