A 15-year member of the RCMP in Manitoba was ordered to resign or face dismissal after a conduct board found he discredited the force by verbally and physically abusing his common-law partner and driving drunk.
Const. Jason Kitzul denied all seven allegations against him during his conduct hearing. He said he and his intimate partner, identified only as Ms. D.R. in the hearing decision, routinely engaged in mutual and consensual roughhousing behaviour and trash talked one another.
But Kevin Harrison, who conducted the hearing, found Kitzul shot D.R. with a BB gun, lit her hair on fire and punched her, and said that exceeded the definition of playful behaviour.
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