Alyssa George’s family questions RCMP response at inquest into in-custody death

Alyssa George, 25, went into medical distress, Sept. 4 2013, while in RCMP custody and later died at Vancouver General Hospital. (CBC News via Facebook)

Video shows Alyssa George lying face-first on the jail cell floor for several minutes before police intervened

By Daybreak South, CBC News, Oct 21, 2015

“I can’t breathe.”

That’s what Mark Oleksiuk remembers hearing his wife Alyssa George say shortly before she was found in medical distress in her cell at the Terrace RCMP holding cells on Sept. 4, 2013.

Oleksiuk, who was being held in a nearby cell at the time, appeared at the B.C. Supreme Court in Terrace on Oct. 19 to give his testimony at a public inquest into George’s death.