The public wanted answers. We wanted to know how a crazed gunman could murder 13 of his neighbours and burn down their homes in the idyllic community of Portapique and then roam across the province in a look-alike police car willy nilly murdering nine more people — friends and strangers, a hapless woman walking, a pair of nurses, a cop, two good samaritans — without anyone stopping him during the 13-hour mayhem.
We wanted to know why the police response was inadequate, why different police agencies couldn’t seem to communicate with each other, why the provincial emergency alert system wasn’t activated, and why two cops mistakenly shot up a volunteer fire hall full of people.
Instead, we got a condescending and offensive panel telling us that the murder spree may cause us some mental anguish.
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