An officer with the Vancouver Police Department testified on Thursday that a senior union representative told him not to take handwritten notes after the beating that left a man dead more than seven years ago.
Const. Josh Wong told a coroner’s inquest the representative gave him the order as he waited for police watchdog investigators at the department’s headquarters after the fight.
“At one point, I had my notebook out and pen in hand, and I was sitting on the seventh floor in a red leather chair, and I was told by a senior [union] member … not to make any handwritten notes,”
