Protest undermines B.C. healing ceremony for Indigenous woman, family seeks refocus

Family of a Vancouver Island Indigenous woman killed during a police wellness check in New Brunswick says the effort to seek justice has been overshadowed by a weekend attack on Victoria's police chief.

Chantel Moore's family and the chief say it's time to focus on Moore again.

A video statement issued yesterday by Moore's family and police Chief Del Manak follows the assault on Manak one day earlier.

A woman poured liquid on the chief as he was an invited guest at a memorial for Moore outside the British Columbia legislature.

Manak was not hurt and police say the suspect, who was not invited to the ceremony, was arrested, along with four others who interfered as police responded.

Hjalmer Wenstob, who speaks for Moore's family, says her mother is ``disheartened'' to see how the event to demand justice for Moore was undermined.