Here's a rare photo of Richard Whaley, a Montrealer who some feel died due to police action, although he'd still have to take plenty of blame regardless for the events of November 1996.Whaley a 29-year-old from Pointe aux Trembles, was driving somewhere on de la Gauchetiere after midnight when his vehicle hit a van.
He was angered by the van's driver and threatened him with a syringe or a screwdriver.
He fled in his car and collided into a tree.
Police chased him down and he fled into an apartment where he holed up until police showed up.
They felt the need to pepper spray him.
A coroner's report later noted that the Montreal cops used pepper spray 323 in one year and only 13 times in an unjustifiable manner.
Well this was one of those unjustifiable times, according to the coroner.
Whaley had consumed a ton of cocaine and died of heart failure due to cocaine. Nonetheless he remains on the list of police victims on an activist site.
His brother sent that photo into that site, saying that Whaley had been mostly forgotten. .