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A lawyer representing the family of Colten Boushie says he hopes a lawsuit filed this week against the RCMP forces the organization “to look deep within itself” and examine the manner in which it interacts with Indigenous people.

In a statement issued Thursday, lawyer Chris Murphy further said “there can be no true reconciliation until the RCMP, itself, acknowledges that the callous manner” in which its members treated the Boushie family “was due — at least in part — to the fact that they were proud members of the Red Pheasant First Nation.”

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Colten Boushie, a Cree man from the First Nation, was 22 years old when he was fatally shot by Gerald Stanley in the Stanley farmyard in the Rural Municipality of Glenside on Aug. 9, 2016.

Stanley was acquitted in the shooting death earlier this year. At trial, he admitted firing the fatal shot, but said it was an accident and he had only meant to fire warning shots into the air after Boushie and four of his friends drove onto his property.