How Thunder Bay police investigated their own Indigenous board chair

In the summer of 2020, the infamous Thunder Bay Police Service looked like it was recovering from the most sensational and embattled period in its history. Ontario had finally recalled the administrator it sent to govern the police two years earlier, after twin watchdog reports made Canada’s first-ever findings of anti-Indigenous systemic racism in a police service and its board. The new board had named former Fort William First Nation Chief Georjann Morriseau as chair, to hold police chief Sylvie Hauth accountable and implement the recommendations contained in those reports. But, within two…