Story out of Lampman, Saskatchewan:
A Saskatchewan reeve says the future of a councillor who posted an online comment about the shooting death of an aboriginal man will be a topic at an upcoming meeting.
A screen-grab of the post, from a user named Ben Kautz, was widely circulated after the death of Colten Boushie earlier this month.
Boushie, 22, of the Red Pheasant First Nation was killed after the vehicle he was in drove onto a farm in the rural municipality of Glenside, west of Saskatoon.
The property-owner, 54-year-old Gerald Stanley, is charged with second-degree murder. He has pleaded not guilty and was granted bail Friday.
"His only mistake was leaving three witnesses," read the post on a Saskatchewan farmers group Facebook page. The group has since been closed.
Kautz, a farmer near the small town of Lampman, southeast of Regina, is a councillor with the rural municipality of Browning.
His wife, Dawn Kautz, told The Canadian Press that she doesn't know exactly what the post said but that it was written in the heat of the moment. The family has had thousands of dollars worth of tools and gas stolen from their farm in the past, she said.
Her husband regrets the post, she added, and has offered to step down as councillor. Cont.
Story from - CTV News/CP
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