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Ottawa police (OPS) are investigating after a “disturbance” outside of a downtown bar in the nation’s capital earlier this week, while a source has confirmed the Grand Chief of the Southern Chiefs Organization (SCO) was involved in the incident, and was sent to hospital with injuries.
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“As a policy, the Ottawa Police Service does not confirm incidents by a victim’s name,” OPS media relations manager Julie Kavanagh said in a Friday email.
“However, we can confirm that just after 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday, December 3, the OPS received a call for service in the 1-100 block of York Street for a disturbance.
“A man was transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries,” Kavanagh said.
A source has confirmed to The Winnipeg Sun that the man sent to hospital was Jerry Daniels, the Grand Chief of the Southern Chiefs Organization (SCO) an organization that represents 34 Anishnaabe and Dakota First Nations communities in southern Manitoba.
Daniels was in Ottawa this week to attend the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly which was held Dec. 3-5, at the Rogers Centre in downtown Ottawa, and brought Indigenous leaders together from across the country.
Ottawa police say they continue to investigate the incident, but would not confirm if any criminal charges are expected to be laid.
“At this time, the incident remains under investigation by the Central Investigations Section,” Kavanagh said.
SCO has not responded to a request for comment and there hasn’t been an update on Daniels’ condition.
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