Dear OPP ... Open Letter... Signed; Ontario Mothers Everywhere

To whom it may concern,

I would like to first thank you for your time as this is a matter of great concern within our community.

It’s been brought to the attention of many parents the abuse of a young 12-year-old boy in the Gravenhurst area. Had this been a parent tossing a child to the ground in front of my eyes at a store I would’ve called the police for protection. I didn’t imagine I would be seeing this from our own small town officers. I question his own parenting.

Our community does not condone this kind of abuse from our police force. We expect from them even when facing the rudest of our members of society, that they show themselves to be an example in the eyes of that person and community. Yes, near perfect. This is what you should strive for.

Our community expects complete professionalism and honour. We want to have faith in our police force and we want to feel properly protected.

Our officers go to our young children’s school and teach them the meaning of integrity and the results and consequences of bullying behaviour. Please have your officers demonstrate this in our community as well.

If not termination we expect a full retraining of this officer and a further investigation to see if maybe the department he is working for is a good fit.

A public apology would also be fitting. If you want to have faith from the community and know that the professionalism and integrity of our officers are honest and true this simple action would rectify the situation a lot seeing as the incident went viral.

Thank you again for your time into the matter,

Ontario Mothers Everywhere

concerned citizens