Kinney now facing mischief to religious property charge for allegedly spray painting Ukrainian cemetery monument.
Police charge journalist with 2021 vandalism of controversial Edmonton Ukrainian centre statue.
A third-party probe of the allegation, concluded last month, cleared Stevenson of wrongdoing. Anne Stevenson, a member of the commission, had attempted to influence an unspecified investigation into Kinney. Former commissioner Ashvin Singh claimed in June 2022 that Coun. The case is also tied up with a recently concluded investigation by the Edmonton Police Commission. Kinney has since been denied access to EPS events, and in February filed a complaint claiming officers assaulted and intimidated him while asking him to leave a news conference. Kinney has repeatedly sparred with EPS over The Progress Report’s media accreditation, which was revoked in February 2022. At the time, he said he would plead not guilty and claimed the charges were an attempt by the Edmonton Police Services at silencing a police critic. Kinney was charged with defacing the Shukhevych statue last October. 10, 2021, article in The Progress Report regarding the vandalism of a statue of Roman Shukhevych at Edmonton’s Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex. Some, including the Edmonton branch of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, have dismissed criticism of Shukhevych, likening it to the “tired Russian propaganda that Vladimir Putin uses to justify his genocidal war in Ukraine.” In a move condemned by both the Polish and Israeli governments, the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil renamed its soccer stadium after Shukhevych in 2021, months before Russia’s full-scale invasion.Ī screenshot of an Aug. He has been lionized in some circles for his resistance to the Soviet Union, in which he died fighting in 1950. Shukhevych remains a controversial figure. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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