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The head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Commissioner Bob Paulson, has backed down from his initial assurance to release a video allegedly shot by Ottawa gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau. In a press conference on Monday, Paulson stated that he now “hopes” to release a transcript containing some of Zehaf-Bibeau’s remarks.
In his remarks, Paulson stated that “I said that I’d hoped to be able to release the video. But I think it forms a central part of the evidence. I think we need to think thoroughly through the benefits and the merits of releasing the video.” According to Paulson, “I think that we may look at releasing some aspects of the transcript of the video.” In a briefing to the Senate national security and defence committee in late October, Paulson mentioned that the video “will certainly someday be released” and alleged that “I really am inclined to overcome those challenges and get it released as soon as possible.”
Paulson refused to explain on Monday why did he have a change of heart and now plans to reveal only a partial transcript, or whether this is due to any graphic content. He said that “I’m not a position to talk about what is in the video, but we take it as pieces of evidence, so we’re being very careful in how we handle that evidence.” In addition to that, Paulson also refrained from providing an update over the ever-changing number of Canadians the RCMP monitors for national security threats, alleging that making the number public was “not useful.”
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