“You Ruined My Life”: Crown Refuses to Lay Charges on Cops who Brutalized Innocent 17-Year-Old Girl

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]What small thing happened in your day that you took it to work or whatever it was that prompted you to ruin my life?

[00:00:10]And I just want to know.

[00:00:12]>> Due to the traumatizing and distressing nature of this story, viewer discretion is advised.

[00:00:18]>> You assaulted a 17-year-old child. Haley Nahama White was only 17 years old when she was brutally tackled to the ground by two Edmonton police officers who had mistaken her for a 25-year-old Asian suspect.

[00:00:33]>> My first thought was I'm being kidnapped and I didn't even see a badge, right?

[00:00:37]So, I didn't even know they were police officers at first.

[00:00:39]>> The violent takedown left her bloody and unconscious, causing lasting physical and mental injuries.

[00:00:46]>> Ended up finding out my teeth fell out, but my braces held them in. I had bald patches. I still do. My SI joint in my hip is completely torn. I still suffer from severe pain from it. I'm gonna be 20 here and I still deal with it. I still have nightmares.

[00:01:05]>> Despite being completely innocent, Haley says she has faced intense online hate and death threats, including comments from the chief of police at the time seemingly blaming her for the incident.

[00:01:18]All of this contributed to her trauma.

[00:01:20]>> I ran towards traffic, mom, because I wanted to be ran over. I would have rather been hit by a car than trafficked is gut-wrenching.

[00:01:30]>> Her mother, Charlene Nahco, is not only fighting for justice for her daughter, she's also battling stage 4 cancer at the same time.

[00:01:38]>> I might be dying. I don't know. I might be here for the next 50 years, but I'm not going away without fighting to the bitter end for my daughter. Recently, Charlene and Haley learned from crown prosecutors in Calgary that no criminal charges will be laid against the two officers due to lack of evidence.

[00:01:57]>> I knew that they were going to be protected. I knew that this was going to be a fight. I honestly didn't even think I'd get justice at all.

[00:02:04]>> I am releasing this lengthy interview because it is the only way to reveal the true depth of the pain, hardship, and long-term trauma this incident inflicted on a 17-year-old girl. An innocent life was permanently altered that night due to the violent and unwarranted actions of two men who happened to be carrying badges. For the first time ever, I am publishing the names of the two officers who have enjoyed anonymity for far too long. This is a matter of clear public interest the public deserves to know.

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[00:02:51]Thank you. Haley's story is not only a victim story. It's a story of perseverance, bravery, and reclaiming one's own life. It's about becoming who she chooses to be rather than being defined by what happened to her in spite of the brutality.

[00:03:05]Do you have distrust of police now?

[00:03:08]>> It's definitely terrifying or like a couple times too like me and my friends go to the watch parties and stuff and try to have a good time and whatever but of course the cops they'll ask you are you okay? Where are you going? What are you doing? And we've had that happen multiple times and I've freaked out every time I call my mom because I'm like so scared because also too like people know my name and I know that I've talked to so many people in uniforms and they know my name and they know who I am and I don't know what their bias is against me and I don't know what they feel like doing to me that day. It's really scary. I'm going to be quite honest.

[00:03:43]>> Why would Why do you think they would have bias against you? You didn't do anything wrong. Because right after the accident, my name was released on social media. I was attacked by hundreds on hundreds of people to the point I had to turn off my DMs on everything. I had to make all my accounts private. Um I was getting messages on Facebook. Um I got one on my Twitter from the fifth grade that I made. And then the one on Instagram and there was one on Instagram that really stood out to me um that I ended up handing into my lawyer and we looked and she was a cop.

[00:04:19]Yeah.

[00:04:20]>> And like she was like her bio was like dog mom back the blue and then you looked at her profile picture. She was a cop. She told me that the right people are going to get me.

[00:04:31]>> Yeah.

[00:04:31]>> And you were just a 17-year-old girl.

[00:04:34]>> Mhm.

[00:04:34]>> You didn't do anything wrong and that's the backlash you got? It was terrible.

[00:04:39]Um, yeah, I had a couple people that I knew that I was friends with, their parents were police officers. They were so kind to me, so reassuring to me. Um, but yeah, I was 17 years old getting death threats on every single form of social media you could think of, and it was all by older people. The people in like around my age group very supportive, very kind, very sweet. And people that got to like listen to my story, they were like, "Oh, okay." like that makes more sense, right?

[00:05:08]>> We tried really hard. We said we were going to stay off of social media and such and she would bring them to me. We would talk about it. When I did jump in was when it became a problem with indigenous community and the black community. We are indigenous or status from Big Stone, but we were trying to keep that out. And then she got backlash from actually older ladies from the indigenous community. Um, and I was like, whoa, now we're done. Now the mom hat comes off and I need to do something. So I started to jump in.

[00:05:47]>> At the time of the incident, Charlene was already fighting for justice for her son. Her son, Greg Podilski, died in a preventable workplace accident in 2022.

[00:05:58]Last year, the two companies responsible pleaded guilty to violating provincial occupational health and safety rules.

[00:06:05]>> And because I was already advocating for my son, I didn't get a lot of backlash.

[00:06:12]Personally, I just watched her get it and it was out of control. Out of control.

[00:06:18]>> What does that tell us about our society?

[00:06:25]For me, it was really frustrating because a lot of the comments were, "Oh, well, if she was native, like, she would be dead right now. She would be disabled. She would be brain dead."

[00:06:34]Stuff like that. Like really harsh harsh things. And um it frustrated me cuz I was like, "Okay, I am native and I understand I am white passing and I do understand that I do carry privilege with my skin color, especially compared to my mom and my dad." But it was definitely frustrating because it like Personally, like my story wasn't a race issue. And don't get me wrong, I'm not invalidating other people at all for it being a race issue, but like my story wasn't a part of that. It was a police brutality issue. And that was the part that we were trying to focus on. But instead, I got comments, oh, if she was brown, she'd be dead right now.

[00:07:12]>> And like, do I agree? Honestly, yeah.

[00:07:16]But like it was just really frustrating because like you know I do understand that and I totally agree with that but also like it that's completely taking the focus off of what actually happened and it's about like police officers becoming entitled.

[00:07:32]>> That was that was what we were trying to keep it focused on the assault.

[00:07:38]>> Yeah. You trying not to politicize.

[00:07:40]>> Yes. The Nahama family say they try to keep politics out of this clear-cut case of police brutality. They believe the comments made by then Chief Dale McIflamed the conversation. Mechi stated, "When police ask you to stop more than once, you know it's really against the law to run." This statement was made even though Haley didn't even know the men who jumped out of an unmarked car at night were in fact police officers.

[00:08:08]>> That made it 10 times worse. that exploded it for her because how many people are going to believe him? Most of them that support him. And that's [ __ ] That's a [ __ ] blatant, outright [ __ ] statement from somebody of authority. To me, he's a bully for even making that statement. I started getting text messages from people. How could he say that? What is wrong with him? You're a kid. Then it was the hate messages rolling in again.

[00:08:38]It was just terrible. and people were calling me stupid. There's Reddit threads. Um, still active. Uh, I've seen multiple Twitter things still active.

[00:08:49]The YouTube comments are still very fresh. It just keeps going and going and going, and it's just, you know, she's 17 years old, but she should have known better. I didn't even see a badge. He had his toque. His toque with his badge was turned around. They didn't put their lights on. They didn't say like, "Yes, they said, "Oh, we're police." But he said, "We're police. If you run, we're going to tase you." And then immediately starts opening his door. That is terrifying. I'm looking in the vehicle.

[00:09:19]I don't see anything. It was just black in there. I don't see anything. And it's a red SUV, no lights on. And I always think too, I'm like, "What if you just turned on your lights?" That was all they needed to do. Still, even when my mom was there, I still didn't believe they were cops. They turned on their lights. He turned it on an accident, went oops and turned it back off.

[00:09:37]>> Yeah.

[00:09:38]>> Do you feel like we have accountability in Canada in general?

[00:09:41]>> No.

[00:09:41]>> No.

[00:09:43]>> Even before this happened to me, I don't believe there's accountability. I've lived in Edmonton since 2013. On the north side with, you know, the stigma of the north side. I love the north side. I do. But I also see and hear things. We all do over on the north side. And you wonder why there is people that don't like the police. There's reason behind it. There was a young young man that was soccer kicked in the head not long ago. Like, who does that? Who in their right mind would kick a child in the head when he's down in work boots and they get away with it? That isn't right. Like, it's sickening, actually. I don't care if you have stripes on your pants because you know what? Stripes, yes, we have to respect, but respect is earned. The stripes aren't handed to you with respect intact. You have to earn it. And that night, no. And it'll never come. Those stripes should be stripped from that uniform of those two. And I'm a firm believer in that. I have family friends that are RCMP officers, amazing men. But you know what? Th those stuff like that and not just our our situation, but other situations, those men don't deserve to be wearing those badges. They should be gone. It shouldn't be an option. It should not be an option until it is finalized, till it's gone through the court system, till they've decided that you're mentally capable of doing this job. you should be stripped of everything until it is cleared up. She has to carry on with her life with no consideration, no help. We didn't have um insurance at the time. I was not working at the time and I had to replace a phone, clothing, >> AirPods, >> AirPods. I had to replace all that. I was told to to send in the receipts.

[00:11:47]It was over almost $2,500.

[00:11:50]send in the receipts and it would take up to 90 days, I believe 60 days to reimburse. I never got a scent. There was no help for uh counseling physically. She her one hip is messed up to this day. She has trouble with it.

[00:12:08]There was no medical help. There was no nothing. All because if they helped, they're guilty. That doesn't even make sense. You're guilty regardless. You did it. There was another party there that watched the whole thing go down. I was at the scene when she was in the back of this car. So why are you even I don't understand why you'd even fight it.

[00:12:32]You're guilty. You assaulted a 17-year-old child in uniform. Two of you. Not just one.

[00:12:41]Two. Now you hide. You're hiding somewhere in the city working. Haley barely graduated after that. That was her graduation year. She was an honor student and she barely made it through graduation and is still to this day working on her education. It's It's taken her longer and it will take her longer. Um she suffers from migraines and PTSD and stuff, but she's got it she's got it dialed in and she's she's determined to do it. She's determined to do it because those two I'm not even going to say men took that from her.

[00:13:14]They took the last of her childhood, the last of her high school years, and they took what her plan was for the rest of her life. So now she has to revamp it, rebuild it, but she's doing it. And that's a huge thing. And I hope they're watching this cuz I want them to know they didn't win. They didn't win. We're still here. I'm still here. And she's still fighting.

[00:13:42]Has the two officers ever apologized to you?

[00:13:46]>> They didn't even speak.

[00:13:49]The one hid in front of the the vehicle.

[00:13:54]The other one stood in front of Haley and looked down at the ground and never said a damn word. it was their supervisor that I remember I was in the back of the cop car and I was fading in and out of consciousness at this time and um I was seeing like three of him and he was like oh what oh um sorry Haley we were looking for some really bad people or it was something of the sorts right something like that >> he said we're sorry Haley we were looking for some really bad pe really really bad people that your description talked to her like she was two.

[00:14:33]>> Yeah.

[00:14:33]>> And I was just like, "Did you really just say that to her?"

[00:14:37]>> And then he looked at me, too. And I remember he like bent down and he was like, "Is there anything you want to say to us?" And I couldn't talk. And I >> She couldn't.

[00:14:47]>> I said, "F you."

[00:14:48]>> She couldn't when I got there. when I got there to her um the trauma um not only physical but mental I had to coax her and convince her she wouldn't even open her eyes and >> would you like to release the names of the two officers?

[00:15:11]>> Yes. They were never released. I've had them. the two officers. The supervisor did not give up his card to see him. I would remember him.

[00:15:23]>> The two officers involved in the incident have been identified as constable Kevin Ban, regimental number 4470, and Constable Nishant Happy, Regimental number 4287.

[00:15:35]Both officers had previously received formal recognition from the government of Alberta. Constable Kevin Ban was recognized by the premier for his efforts during the 2016 Wood Buffalo Wildfire, while Constable Nishant Happy was honored for helping rescue a man who had jumped from a bridge into the cold waters of the North Saskatchewan River.

[00:15:56]As part of responsible public interest journalism, I contacted both Constable Ban and Constable Happy directly as well as Edmonton Police Service media relations to give them an opportunity to respond. I asked for their account of the events, any comment on the family's reported injuries and long-term trauma, the crown's decision not to lay charges, and any policy or training changes that resulted from this incident. They were also clearly informed that their names would be published in connection with this case. Neither Constable Ban nor Constable Happy responded and Edmonton Police Service Media Relations did not reply to the inquiry. While I was not able to locate a photo of Officer Nishan Happy, Haley has identified Officer Kevin Ban as the man who tackled her to the ground and caused her injuries. Um, there's one, his name's Officer Happy.

[00:16:49]When he started looking at me, especially when I was in the cop, too, and I started crying and I was begging, pleading with them. I was like, "Please, like," and I started crying. I was like, "I'm just 17. I promise I'm a lifeguard.

[00:16:59]Like, I'm coming home from work. Like, I've never even stolen anything. Like, please, what did I do wrong?" song and I'm crying cuz I just want to know what I did. And um he was like it's okay Haley like we are real cops cuz oh I was also um screaming and crying cuz on the way like on the bus I was reading that case that happened in Fort McMurray of that guy dressing as police officers to sexually assault women. It was right when I got off the bus and I turned off my phone and then that happened. So I also my first thought was I'm being kidnapped and I didn't even see a badge, right? So I didn't even know they were police officers at first. So, when I was in the back of the cop car, that's when they were like or the officer happy. He was like, "Um, we are police officers, Haley. I promise." And I'm just crying back and forth. And I'm like, "Please, I'm not worth anything. I'm not worth anything." And I'm just like begging and pleading for them to give me to my mom.

[00:17:49]And like I was Yeah. I remember telling them I wouldn't say anything if they just let me go. And like I was I was fully convinced I was about to be sex trafficked.

[00:17:59]And uh to hear your child say, "I ran towards traffic on 137th A. It's busy.

[00:18:10]I ran towards traffic, Mom, because I wanted to be ran over. I would have rather been hit by a car than trafficked is gut-wrenching.

[00:18:22]It's absolutely gut-wrenching."

[00:18:25]And you think at that moment or somewhere in that moment, one of them, I don't care if you're sharing a brain or you have your own, it would have clicked in. Hey, something's not right. When you're looking for a 25year-old Asian woman, >> I had braces.

[00:18:46]>> She had braces at the time.

[00:18:48]>> She had blond blonde is her natural color. And I was wearing my school's backpack with the logo on it >> and her lifeguard uniform. Does that in any way, shape, or form between two people, could you not go, "Wait a minute. She's not 25. She's not Asian. And why didn't you go to the house to begin with? You were called to a house. Why didn't you go there? That doesn't make sense to me.

[00:19:16]Why did you just scoop up the first female walking on the street?" I think what bothers me and that I think about a lot is um when I was running for some reason the road went quiet like there was no one coming and I was so scared because I'm sitting there thinking like if I get hit they can't take me right they're not going to take someone with a broken arm or you know and uh so I saw headlights and I looked at the guy and it was a silver SUV. It was pretty big.

[00:19:42]It was a pretty big vehicle and I just like ran towards it because I was like I don't remember if I waved or not. I just remember straight running straight towards it because I was trying to get my body right in the middle of it and um I got there and he had time and I remember what he looked like and everything cuz I could see him and he swerved out of the way and just kept driving watching this man chase me.

[00:20:10]And it was then I was he jumped on me and he got me to the ground and uh from there it was just it was bad. ended up finding out my teeth fell out, but my braces held them in, said my orthodontist. And then I was really lucky I had braces because I wouldn't have teeth. I had patches of blood on the back of my scalp from where he grabbed the back of my head. I had bald patches. I still do in some places. My whole front of my mouth was bleeding. My nose was bleeding. My chin was scraped.

[00:20:40]I had bruises all over. My SI joint and my hip is completely torn. I still suffer from severe pain from it. Yeah.

[00:20:49]It's just it's really frustrating cuz I think about then how he swer he swerved out of the way and I'm like you saw a woman getting not even a woman. I looked like a child at the time. I still do but I was very clearly a child. And the fact that he swerved out of the way. I think about that a lot. And he just kept driving. He never turned around. And that's our society. Nobody wants to get involved anymore. Nobody wants to call people out on their crap. Nobody wants to. No, that's that that's what our society has turned into. You see it downtown. Nobody wants to help anybody anymore. It's and it's terrible. We have it going on right now. You know, them sweeping up taking homeless people's stuff right now. And when they leave their little areas and stuff and it's like, man, like what is wrong with you people? But that's what our society has become. And it's just like there's no compassion in those jobs anymore. None.

[00:21:43]It's all about bronze.

[00:21:45]>> I'm going into nursing. I'm going into that job to help people. I'm going into that job because I want to help and because I don't want to be a part of the problem. But it's hard when I see other people that are in these roles, especially first responder uniforms, including police officers, where it's like, you're in that job to help people.

[00:22:04]You're not there to be an authoritarian.

[00:22:07]And that's the frustrating part because they do have a sense of entitlement, especially when it comes to seniority, you know, their title, stuff like that.

[00:22:16]And it definitely gets to their head.

[00:22:18]And that's the frustrating part is it's ego. I work up in the nations and um there's stories up there. I c I come home um and me and my kids have chatted about it. You don't even hear the stories that happen up there. And the other thing they like to do and they tried with us and I refused that day when they called. They asked for mediation. That's their instant reaction. Mediation involves going into the detachment and you actually sit with those officers cuz I said I'll come in and chat with you. Um how does this work? So she told me I said my daughter will be nowhere near those officers. Oh yeah, they h they'll be there. They'll be sitting in uh No, they won't.

[00:23:01]um come to learn their mediation. It's their mediation. It's for their benefit.

[00:23:08]Um so they can basically pay you out and make you go away. No damn way was I doing that. No way in hell was I putting my daughter in front of two men that just assaulted her for money. Where do you even think that's right? And then you just carry on and you get into your cruisers and you continue to work. It's definitely hard because I know in job interviews they bring it up. They search my name, it comes up. It's been brought up every single job interview I've ever had. I don't realize how it affects my life until I remember until I have the panic attacks at night when I'm at the bus station. I call my mom. I'm freaking out. She has to tell me to calm down.

[00:23:47]Like until I'm with my friends, until we're being pulled over, until I see those flashing lights, until officer tries to talk to me. Even at the bar when they try to talk to me, it hits me really hard. or even my injuries are a reminder. I started training and stuff with a personal trainer at the gym and everything and I started really working out and stuff and even then like I was hitting legs too and the pain was just like a reminder. I felt it in my hip and I was just like you just like hits you.

[00:24:15]It hits you that it actually happened.

[00:24:17]It's a reminder that it's real. And that's the frustrating part is that I didn't just walk away with bruises and scrapes. It was like I walked away with like permanent physical things and mental struggles and yes >> and and they just walk away.

[00:24:34]>> And they got to go home that night. They got to sleep good. I know for a fact they didn't feel bad. I know for a fact they knew that, you know, that badge was going to protect them. I knew that I knew that they were going to be protected. I knew that this was going to be a fight. I honestly didn't even think I'd get justice at all. I walked away at 17 years old, my reputation completely ruined. Um, I know some of my friends weren't allowed to hang out with me anymore. It was just really frustrating cuz it's like that's not fair. That's honestly not fair. And I never wanted them to lose their jobs. That was never something that even crossed my mind. I was never spiteful about it. And this is where my dad told me that I had too big of a heart and I needed to let them have accountability for their actions. But all I asked was that they were retrained. I asked that they were put into like, you know, certain training on how to approach people, how to talk to people, how to be citizens instead of authoritarians. And that was the part that just frustrated me so bad. I asked for such a simple thing and they couldn't even do that. And that's the part that still frustrates me because I I sit there and I wonder too. them like, you know, if they're in their cruisers, how do they talk to people now? How do they approach people now? Did they learn anything from this? I don't know. I haven't even heard their side. I have no clue. So, it's definitely just It's exhausting. It's mentally and physically exhausting. It's mentally exhausting that I'm always worried about it. I'm always worried about it. They didn't even help us collect her stuff that they tossed around on the road. Um, we watched it get ran over numerous times while we're, you know, we got to get her stuff off the road. Um, yeah. And they they they didn't even help us with that.

[00:26:13]We can't do nothing. We can't help you.

[00:26:15]It's like they were so scared if they helped that meant accountability. They were guilty. So, let's just wash our hands and walk away. We've never been interviewed by the crown prosecutor of Calgary.

[00:26:27]>> Why? Why didn't we get a say? Why didn't we get to make a statement? We've never made a statement except for the lawyer, our lawyer. Why? Why weren't we asked, "Okay, let's hear your side if we're taking it to Calgary again so that we can hide it from the public in Edmonton." I know that's why they did it. It was so crazy on social media.

[00:26:50]There was no way in hell they were going to have a court date here in Edmonton.

[00:26:55]We didn't even know there was one, to be honest.

[00:26:58]We just got the letter from Calgary saying that, oh, we held court and we decided that there's no criminal charges. Well, when did that happen? And why weren't we informed? And why weren't we asked to our side of what happened?

[00:27:13]Nothing. They just took it upon themselves to do what they thought they needed to do. We don't accept it. I don't accept it. I'll never accept it.

[00:27:23]We didn't get our day in court. We haven't had our day in court. We haven't been able to write statements. We haven't been able to sit in a courtroom and tell our story or just her tell her story or we did to major crimes when they investigated. That officer was amazing. He he was so um he was so caring. He was so patient when we had questions. Like I had questions cuz I wasn't there when it happened. I was there after the fact. So, he had a map and he explained uh the direction Haley was walking in, the direction the vehicle came in, because I didn't know all that like major crimes. That officer, >> he was amazing.

[00:28:06]>> He He was so good.

[00:28:08]>> He kept reassuring me that I was safe, that it was okay, that I could be honest with him, that he wasn't judging me, that he's here to listen to me. He was amazing. And I hate to say it and it's might sound harsh. They knew I was stage four cancer. So what are you waiting for? For me to die? I might be dying. I don't know. I might be here for the next 50 years. I don't know. But I'm not going away without fighting to the bitter end for my daughter. And I know people that are willing to pick it up if something happens to me. We're not going away. So stand up, the two of you or three or four or how many ever and grow a pair and take responsibility. Let us get on with our lives, too. I don't know how you sleep at night. Go to bed at night, get up in the morning, put those stripes on, and go back to work. Those stripes mean nothing. You're a coward.

[00:29:01]You're a coward in stripes.

[00:29:03]>> I have friends that their parents are officers. There was a part of my life where I want to be a police officer. I want to be a paramedic. It frustrates me because they aren't bad people, but it's like it's so hard because it's like the few, they stand out, right? That bad few stand out compared to all the good ones because those are the ones going on social media and stuff for all these terrible things and whatever. And it just looks terrible for them. And it frustrates me because like I was never I never wanted to do a smear campaign towards them. It's just I just wanted these two I wanted them to even just take accountability. Like they couldn't have even just been men. I was 17 years old, a minor, being blasted on social media, and these two grown men couldn't even say, "Yes, we were in the wrong.

[00:29:50]That wasn't okay." I didn't even get an apology. And I'm sitting there on live television explaining my story, reliving everything when it just happened, and they couldn't even show their faces. I was sent death threats. I got told people were going to come to my home. I lost friends.

[00:30:08]Even now, it's just like it's frustrating and it's not fair. I'm gonna be 20 here and I still deal with it. I still have nightmares.

[00:30:19]Like, it's just it's so frustrating.

[00:30:22]It's so frustrating.

[00:30:24]>> Do you believe that unless these two are held accountable, this could happen to another 17year-old?

[00:30:30]>> Oh, 100%.

[00:30:30]>> It probably has. How many has it happened to that haven't spoken up because they are scared >> or they can't afford a lawyer or they don't know how to go about it? They don't know what to do. And that's so frustrating because I'm so grateful that my case got the coverage it did for the short amount of time it did. But it frustrates me cuz I'm like my case as of right I told my mom there was a point where I just wanted to give up. I was like, "Mom, I don't care anymore. I just don't want to do this anymore. I don't want to fight anymore." and she was like, "No, we're going to keep doing this." And I was like, "Okay." And she helped me through it. But it just gets frustrating because like you read all the everyone's expecting it to get brushed under the rug cuz that's what happens to every single one. It's what one out of a hundred cases, not even probably thousands where the police actually take accountability. And it's just my life was permanently changed.

[00:31:23]It's time for them to take accountability. It's time for people to be held accountable. these I can't even say officers cuz they don't deserve that title. It's time for them to be taking accountability cuz that's the only way it's going to stop. Them not being forced to take accountability is telling everybody else on the force or not everybody but the bad ones on the force even that it's okay. We had an officer here that did it multiple times and got away with it because he got away with it the first time. Why isn't he going to do it again and again and again? So it sets a negative precedent and that's what you want to change.

[00:31:59]>> It's frustrating because even too one of my close friends from high school, he's currently the police academy and I read their values and I'm like you have two officers on the street right now that follow the complete opposite and you're protecting them. It's not even the fact of like they're not like oh you guys can deal with that on your own. That's a personal matter. Not even that. It's just straight up the force is protecting them. They're protecting their names.

[00:32:24]They're protecting their jobs. Like, that is so frustrating. And I'm like, but you sit here in your academy and you preach these values, but you can't apply them to the people on your force already. Like, yeah, they sat there and learned in a classroom. When are they going to apply it to the real world now?

[00:32:40]And that's the part that frustrates me cuz I'm just like, the Edmonton police has such a bad stigma the past couple of years and I've been watching and I've been noticing it is terrible. And it is just so frustrating because I'm like, they have the power to change that and they just don't. And I honestly think it's just cuz of ego. That's all it seems to be. How terrified as a person can you be to think if I run into oncoming traffic, they can't get me. The trauma that they they caused and did.

[00:33:11]And there aren't even words to describe.

[00:33:16]And I'm not saying it just because she's my daughter. I'm saying it in general because I know others. I know of others.

[00:33:23]What they do physically to that person in that moment doesn't go away ever for that person that they did it to. And if they don't take accountability, they just go on to the next one and the next one. And yeah. And I I just don't understand how somebody can be so sickminded to do that stuff and think it's okay. I I I don't get it. And that goes for prosecution as well to think that they did what they did and there wasn't enough there wasn't enough evidence, which I don't know what more they needed to say that it wasn't criminal. And that's why I say if it had been anybody else that had done that to her, they would have been thrown into remain held till whatever. And it would have been all over the internet that he had done this to her and yada yada yada.

[00:34:12]and he would have been charged criminally and he would have been held accountable and because of a badge number that entitles you to do that.

[00:34:19]That entitles you not to be charged criminally, not to be held accountable to carry on with your life and continue to uh work in your profession for 3 years and collect uh taxpayers money which in turn is to me subsidizing what you're doing wrong on the streets. The the whole it's just gross. It's just like it's it's terrible. And I know there's going to be backlash about this, too, but I don't give a [ __ ] because what has been said to us online and to my daughter online doesn't even touch what my daughter has been through. So, they can say whatever they want. It it doesn't work anymore. Their comments don't work anymore. It's like whatever.

[00:34:56]I still had no guilt and no shame of not taking their money or their mediation, which I knew was going to be money.

[00:35:04]Probably a buyout. Yeah. Taxpayers money.

[00:35:07]um I still had no shame in not taking it because that wasn't that wasn't what we were after. We wanted accountability accountability. And so that's where we sit now. And doing this is allowing us to say, "Hey, you two, we're still here." And as for everybody else, this is who they are. And yes, we're still here.

[00:35:27]>> It's also frustrating because it feels like I got forgotten. And that's the part that's like the most >> irritating because it's more frustrating because like it's only when it's if I would have died on that concrete if I would have been brain dead permanently disabled like in more physical ways.

[00:35:49]That's the only time where it would be very serious and you know and it's just like I'm a living person and it's just I hate being treated just like a case number that they're just throwing under piles of more and more. I'm at the age now where one day I do want to sit face to face with them and not so much officer happy. It was the other um man that attacked me >> ban.

[00:36:15]>> Mhm. I would love to look him in the eyes and ask him, "Why did you do that to me? What prompted you to do that to me? How was I threatening enough to you at 5'2 and 120 lbs with braces and a school backpack on?" Like, I was that threatening that prompted you to slam my head into the concrete three times, knock me unconscious, grab me by the back of my arms, pull me up by my arms >> while she was handcuffed. While I'm handcuffed, dig your knee into my hip to the point I'm screaming to get off.

[00:36:52]Like, how was I that threatening? He used force that would have been used on someone his size. That would make more sense. I was 5' 120 lbs. Like, >> well, you were a child.

[00:37:04]>> Mhm.

[00:37:06]And it's frustrating because I want to look at him and just be like, did you have a bad day? Did you not get enough sleep before your shift? What?

[00:37:15]Like, why did you do that to me?

[00:37:18]>> And they don't do drug testing.

[00:37:20]>> He had veins popping out of his neck, all over his forehead. His neck was hu He was huge. He would had to be over six foot. He weighed a lot. He was a buff guy. Really buff guy to the point when he was slamming my head down, he ripped out chunks of my hair. That was that was one of the the questions that I had for uh >> she immediately asked immediately asked that night. I remember >> yeah I asked because I had worked in the oil field before as well. When there's a screw- up in the oil field, you don't get to go home. You don't get to get in your vehicle. You are picked up and taken for a drug test. So that was one of the questions I had. I said, "Was their drug testing done? FYI, they don't do that. They don't do that to their officers." So, and that blew my mind. I was like in any other industry safety health and safety wise and I'm a huge advocate for safety why isn't that done in the force in our uniforms amongst our uniforms and our government employees and such like why is that not done but yeah that was what I was told oh we don't do that I'm like well maybe that's something that should be looked at as well that's probably a good idea >> because that doesn't even make sense to me either that was the only plausible explanation that I have is that he had road raid rage or he was on something because there is just no way cuz the his partner looked embarrassed. His partner put his head down looked so beyond embarrassed.

[00:38:49]>> Terrified when I got there.

[00:38:51]>> Yeah. And he just looked at he looked at me like a sad puppy. Like he and he was very apologetic. You could tell he felt so guilty but he didn't say anything.

[00:39:01]But I could just tell he felt bad and just by his tone and everything, he was putting his head down to his partner.

[00:39:09]The only plausible explanation to me is that. And I asked for that. My mom asked for that, but no, they don't do that.

[00:39:16]And I'm just like, mentally, you need to figure out what is wrong with this officer to attack a small girl with that amount of force because at that point, you got to realize something's not clicking up there. That doesn't make sense at all. And that's the part where I want to look him in the face and I want to ask him. I just want to know.

[00:39:36]>> And that's braver than me, I tell you.

[00:39:40]Don't put me in a room with them, too.

[00:39:42]>> I just want to ask them. I want to ask them. I want to know. How did your day go? Did you get a rough sleep? What was going on before then? Maybe you're having issues at home. I just want to know. I want to know what small thing happened in your day that you took it to work or whatever it was that prompted you to ruin my life.

[00:40:04]And I just want to know because like after that accident, even my best friend, she told me I became a whole different person.

[00:40:20]And that's so hard to hear. And like my boy, my long-term boyfriend at the time, like he said, I became a whole new person. Everyone close to me said I became a whole different person. So, I just want to know like what happened in your own life that you know prompted you to ruin mine.

[00:40:41]You changed me as a person. I wasn't a kid after that.

[00:40:44]Like, I got into drinking. I got into everything. And it's just like it's so frustrating because now I'm going to be 20 in 5 months and only now am I mentally okay. Only now have I found on my own the resources to get help. Have I opened up about what's happened to me? I've gone for therapy.

[00:41:07]I'm in therapy. You know, it's just frustrating because I'm like I'm so behind compared to others because of you.

[00:41:17]I think of who I could have been and I think of where I could be right now. And I think of how much better I could have done, the person I could have been, how much better I could have been towards my friends.

[00:41:33]I just I think about that a lot. And that's I want him to know that. And even if he doesn't feel bad, I just want him to know too, you know, yeah, I'm going to be 20 in five months, but you know what? I'm finally a person that I'm proud of. I'm continuing my education. And you know what? Even if you don't feel bad, it's just whatever.

[00:41:54]Cuz I want him to see that I'm finally healing. And I can say that for the first time since the accident, 3 years later, I'm finally healing. And I finally feel like a person.

[00:42:05]And I finally don't feel like I'm just what happened to me. And people look at me and they see that too. And and I can tell now when people people don't see me of, "Oh, that's cop girl." Cuz that's what they call me. It's, "Oh, that's Haley. Oh, that's Hails. Oh, that's Hey." Like, I'm a person now. And I just want to look him in the eyes and I'm like, "Yeah, you you did ruin me for a minute, but you know, I want to get in a position where I am higher than you. I want to make more money than you, you know. I want to get a higher education than you.

[00:42:39]>> I want to make people's lives positive because you couldn't.

[00:42:44]>> And that's kind of where I'm at now.

[00:42:47]>> The Nahama family story is one of profound perseverance. While continues her journey to reclaim her life, her mother Charlene, who's battling stage four cancer, remains fiercely determined to hold constable Kevin Ban. Constable Nishant Happy and the Edmonton Police Service accountable for what happened that night. I am committed to providing a platform for those who have suffered unjustly at the hands of our institutions. When I asked Charlene why she chose to bring this story to me instead of Global News or the CBC, her answer made me proud of the work I've been doing. And I hope it makes you proud as well as someone who has donated and supported Media Bizeran. I did have a particular reason because like I said, I watched uh I've been following you with Humbult with Chris and being allowed to say what you want to say and you don't hide it. You don't go in and say, "Oh, he said that. We got to take this out." You allow people that you've interviewed to say what they wanted to say. You didn't go in and say, "Okay, I'm going to put this together so it looks good for what I wanted to say."

[00:43:57]you've let them say what they wanted to say. And I think that's I think that's amazing. I think that that to me is what journalism is about cuz there again how we've lost free speech. And one day I was just sitting here and I'm like I'm going to email him and he got back to me so I was like huh? But um and I didn't have to say anything to you. I just explained just Google my name and Google my daughter's name. That's what I did.

[00:44:29]And yeah, and just like I said, I knew we would be allowed to say what we wanted to say. It wouldn't be taken out, censored, whatever, whatever. And it wouldn't be tucked away. Nobody that did our interviews or anything came back and said, "How you guys doing? What's going on?"

[00:44:50]>> Nobody did. And I was like, they don't care.

[00:44:54]>> It felt like it was only for clicks at the time because >> Yeah, that's what I had said earlier.

[00:44:58]>> Yeah. It's like, oh, wow, this is so fresh. And then >> jump on the bandwagon cuz it's all over social media, right?

[00:45:05]>> Cuz it got to Y wave and >> Yeah. I will continue following this story closely, staying in regular contact with the Namka family and bringing you updates as they develop.

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[00:45:31]Every contribution makes a real difference. Thank you. Also, there is an active GoFundMe for Haley. Fighting for justice in Canada is expensive, and if you would like to support the family with the resources they need to continue their pursuit of justice, I've included their GoFundMe link in the video description below. Special thanks to Charlene and Haley for their incredible bravery in retelling such a painful and sensitive story. It was not easy for them, and I'm deeply grateful they trusted me to handle it with care and respect.

[00:46:07]I'm not here to launch political attacks or exploit anyone's suffering. My only goal is to give victims a platform to speak freely without distorting their stories. If you would like to see more of my work, I invite you to check out my other exclusive investigations, especially my coverage of the Humbled Broncos tragedy, which is the story that first prompted Charlene to reach out to me. Thank you.