masquerade

Well, I'm back.

For those wishing details, my cousin with his friends outside the arena between the second and third period of a hockey game in a small town in Northern BC, on Saturday night (Oct. 29th). One of the guys asked him to hold his beer while he wrestled with another friend. The RCMP showed up and dumped out the beer he was holding. When one of the officers asked for his name to write him a ticket, he gave him his friend's name (possibly thinking it was his beer anyway so he should get the ticket). The other officer recognized him, though, and said so to the first officer. They then took him to the station for obstructing justice. Basically, they were going to make sure he missed the end of the hockey game and write him a real ticket.

His friends couldn't pick him up when the game ended.

The official story is that he became violent as he was being released and the RCMP officer shot him in the head in the ensuing scuffle.

An enquiry is pending.

I mostly remember him as a little boy tearing around my grandparents house in Saskatchewan when we were kids. He was a handful (stories at the funeral indicate that he still was even when he got older), but he was always cheerful and energetic.

So...I'm home now anyway. Talk to everyone soon.