Here is just a little more information on what happened that evening. I'm sure if Brian would have meant to shoot him he probably would be playing a harp by now.
Brian Knight was a victim of a group of people trying to steal his property. At 1:30am on March 26th 2009 3 men trespassed on his farm & were in the act of stealing his ATV. The RCMP were called after the incident & before he left his property in pursuit of the thief.
Brian Knight pursued the man who left the farm on his quad. Knight followed in his car. He caught up to the thief & disabled him, hitting his with his car. The thief fled the site on foot at which point Brian Knight shot 2 shot gun shots into the air, not at the thief.
Brian Knight called upon neighbours to assist him in finding the criminals. One neighbour found the quad thief wandering up the road, he picked him up & brought him back to the quad & Mr Knight. The thief then attempted to steal the neighbour's pick-up truck unsuccessfully crashing the truck up the road.
Mr Knight called the RCMP again when he had the thief in his custody. When the RCMP arrived he was treated like the criminal, the thief was treated like the victim of a crime.
In Alberta we are losing our freedom & security to common criminals. Our Justice system is failing us & the common criminals continue to seem like they are getting away with the crimes they commit.
Knight has recieved a total of 7 different criminal charges, including criminal negligence causing bodily harm, assault and dangerous driving.
Mr Knight acted no differently than any other person who would have been in the same situation. Mr Knight was exercising his inalienable rights, the right to protect his family, his land & his property.
Our government in Canada & Alberta is taking away these rights & delegating them to police forces that are over worked & stretched to the limit. Chances are the police would not have responded to a property theft until the next day. Chances are the police would not have found the quad or the criminals that stole the property.
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