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Rot at heart unpunished

There were few times in his report on the Taman Inquiry where former judge Roger Salhany pulled his punches. Many of those who helped to thwart the course of justice in the scandal — a destructive path that began at the accident scene where Crystal Taman died almost immediately after former Winnipeg police officer Derek Harvey-Zenk rear-ended her car at a stop light — came under scathing criticism, and justifiably so. It is also glaringly apparent that the 22 Winnipeg police officers — those who did all the drinking that night in February 2005 when one of their own killed a woman — got off pretty much untouched. Updated 8:50 AM

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