'I need justice': Community rallies around 28-year-old father killed by police
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Chants of "no justice, no peace" were heard in downtown Edmonton on Saturday at a rally in honour of a man shot and killed by an Edmonton police officer.
Chants of "no justice, no peace" were heard in downtown Edmonton on Saturday at a rally in honour of a man shot and killed by an Edmonton police officer.
A crowd gathered outside the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) headquarters to call for the suspension of the officer who fatally shot 28-year-old father Mathios Arkangelo on a residential street in Fraser the night of June 29.
At the time, police said he matched the description of a driver who had walked away from a single-vehicle rollover on Anthony Henday Drive.
Ana Odo, Mathios' mother, said if her son had done something wrong, he should have been arrested – not shot.
"I need justice for my son," Odo said. "When the police stop you, and the hands (are) supposed to be up, he did it. The police shot him."
"What happened to Mathios was heartbreaking, it was tragic," community organizer Harrun Ali said. "To send that officer back to work less than two months after he did that – I don't even know what to say.
"I'm not shocked, but I'm disgusted."
