FOG BLOG NEW BRUNSWICK LOG: INQUEST INTO RODNEY LEVI'S SHOOTING IS UNDERWAY!

Video showing Rodney Levi being shot by RCMP evokes gasps and sobs from family...Coroner’s inquest hears from 23-year-old witness who took video at pastor’s house........A 37-second video showing Rodney Levi being tasered then shot, then falling down, was shown today at the coroner's inquest into his death on June 12, 2020.

About 25 people in attendance had been cautioned about what they were going to see and several chose to leave the room, including Levi's 72-year-old mother, Mary Ann Francis.

Among those who stayed, the sight of Levi falling down, preceded by two muffled sounds of gunshots, elicited gasps and sobs from the family's side of the inquest room.

Rodney's sister, Linda Levi rushed out, sobbing.

The coroner then called a short recess.

Daniel Bell said he had driven to the home of Pastor Brodie MacLeod because he'd been invited there by MacLeod's son.By the time he got near the house, he received a text telling him not to come in but to park next door at the Boom Road Pentecostal Church.

He said the pastor's wife came out and said someone in the house had knives and she had called the police.

The video had a stunning impact on people in the room, many of them members of Metepenagiag First Nation - about a dozen of them, wearing orange shirts.

The inquest is sitting on Truth and Reconciliation because the family had expressed a preference for taking Friday off, to mark Treaty Day, coroner John Evans had explained at the outset.