Wrongful acquittals generally involve race and/or police killings. Colten Boushie, like William Ford, like Treyvon Martin, like Ian Bush, Eric Garner and so many more, was murdered in Saskatchewan by Gerald Stanley for, essentially, trespassing and vandalism.
Wikipedia describes the incident this way:
Boushie was a resident of the Cree Red Pheasant First Nation of Saskatchewan. After getting a flat tire, he and four friends had driven to a farmhouse near Biggar, Saskatchewan, owned by Gerald Stanley. They had been drinking and had earlier tried to break into a truck at another farm. One of the group tried to start an ATV on the property and their SUV crashed into one of Stanley’s cars. Stanley reacted by retrieving a handgun from his shed and firing two warning shots into the air to scare the group off his property. He then approached the SUV, with Boushie in the driver’s seat, and reached in to turn off the ignition when his gun discharged. Boushie was shot in the neck just below the ear and died instantly. Stanley’s defence claimed the shot was an accident and that a third round loaded into the magazine was fired, yet failed to detonate, precipitating a hang fire.[1] Stanley was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. A jury acquitted him on February 9, 2018.
In the film, “We Will Stand Up”, directed by Tasha Hubbard, an Indigenous filmmaker who grew close to the Boushie family, the murder of the young man, brother and son, is used to highlight the endemic racism in the Saskatchewan and, in some ways, the Canadian legal systems. I call it murder but the jury disagreed.
Wrongful acquittals deny the humanity of the murder victims just as wrongful convictions deny the humanity of the convicted person.