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Anthony O'Brien "Dudley" George (March 17, 1957 – September 7, 1995) was an Ojibwa protestor who was shot and killed by Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant Kenneth Deane (who was later found criminally negligent) near Ipperwash Provincial Park in Ontario in 1995 during the Ipperwash Crisis. George was one of a group of natives protesting the Canadian government's seizure of the Stoney Point land. Dudley George was the only Aboriginal person killed by police during an aboriginal land claims dispute in Canada in the twentieth century. He was called Dudley because he loved to watch Dudley Do-Right, the television cartoon about a Mountie. Dudley was the eighth of ten children to Geneviève ("Jenny") Pauline Rogers George and Reg "Nug" (Reginald Ransford) George.

The Ipperwash Crisis

ť Main article: Ipperwash Crisis

In 1942, the Government of Canada appropriated the Stoney Point Reserve at Ipperwash under the War Measures Act. On Labour Day Monday, September 4, 1995, a group of Natives started a protest in Ipperwash Provincial Park to draw attention to the decades-old land claims. About thirty-five protestors occupied the park.
   The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was called in to deal with the crisis. The OPP prepared a plan, Project Maple, for dealing with the occupation, which stressed "a peaceful resolution" and which called for a team of thirteen negotiators to be on call around the clock.
   The following day, September 5, Ontario PC M.P.P. Marcel Beaubien was in contact with the police, and Beaubien also contacted the office of Premier Mike Harris in an attempt to put pressure on the government to intervene. That same day, several government officials took part in a meeting in Toronto to discuss the Ipperwash protest. The meeting notes conclude that "The province will take steps to remove the occupiers ASAP."
   The next day, September 6, police riot squads stormed the park to apprehend the protestors. Various police officers fired on vehicles and buildings. Acting Sergeant Ken "Tex" Deane, fired three shots at Dudley George, who was carrying an elongated dark-coloured branch. After repeated unanswered appeals from the protestors for the police to call an ambulance, George was finally loaded into his sister's car and driven to hospital. They were arrested and delayed for over an hour en route to the hospital.
   George was declared dead at 12:20 a.m. on September 7, 1995 at Strathroy-Middlesex General Hospital.
   Deane was charged with criminal negligence causing death. His defence was that he believed that Dudley George had been carrying a rifle. The judge rejected Deane's claim, convicting Deane and sentencing him to two years of community service.
   Despite Deane's conviction, larger questions about the role of the office of Progressive Conservative Premier Mike Harris remained. The George family repeatedly called on the Ontario and federal governments to launch a public inquiry into the events at Ipperwash. An investigation was finally launched on November 12, 2003, after the Ontario Conservatives lost power to the Ontario Liberal Party in the 2003 provincial election.
   Ken Deane was killed on February 25, 2006 in a car accident when his vehicle collided with a truck near Prescott, Ontario. Deane was on his way to testify in the inquiry.

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