On Friday, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki released an updated statement saying she was aware that "systemic racism is part of every institution, the RCMP included" and admitted she should have "definitively" acknowledged its existence within the RCMP's ranks.
"The RCMP Veterans' Association is extremely disappointed in the failure to support the members of our National Police Force," association president Sandy Glenn wrote in a statement Saturday.
"Making sweeping generalization statements about any group of people is always unfair and in the case of a senior executive member, singularly inappropriate and inaccurate. Thoughtless statements from our political leaders put frontline members of the RCMP at risk."
Glenn wrote that he was not denying the presence of "anomalies" in the RCMP, but said that those individuals "are not the rule." He denied that systemic racism existed in "the RCMP or any other Canadian police agency."
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