{"id":11065,"date":"2022-03-16T16:01:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T23:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/?p=11065"},"modified":"2022-04-29T16:05:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T23:05:22","slug":"governments-fail-male-victims-of-intimate-partner-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/?p=11065","title":{"rendered":"Governments fail male victims of Intimate Partner Violence."},"content":{"rendered":"

Headline: Provincial and Federal Governments in Canada have failed
\nmale victims of Intimate Partner Violence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is my Story.
\nI am a victim of Intimate Partner Violence at the hands of my wife.
\nVerbal, emotional and mental abuse. Twice I’ve been physically
\nabused (nearly a year ago).<\/p>\n

Repeatedly I’ve had to call the Police and repeatedly they have done
\nnothing. In fact, on 1 occasion last year, I was in fact blamed by
\nthe Surrey RCMP and thought that I was going to be arrested even
\nthough I was the victim.<\/p>\n

Last summer I suffered a major mental breakdown and became extremely
\nsuicidal. I had an active plan and had a knife to my wrist and was
\nready to slash my arm wide open. I called 911 on myself and rather
\nthan the Surrey RCMP send their mental health team (Car 67), they
\nsent heavily armed Police. My neighborhood was surrounded by cop
\ncars, I had 13 cops with the Rifles aimed at me, red ‘beads’ from
\ntheir lazer pointers on my back even though I was already in
\nhandcuffs behind my back and cooperating with the Police.<\/p>\n

Why am I continuing to be treated like the ‘Aggessor’? Is it because
\nI’m the man? Is it because I’m Indigenous? Or is it both?<\/p>\n

For FAR too long, the Province of BC and the Government of Canada
\nhave done absolutely nothing for Indigenous men or men who are
\nvictims of Intimate Partner Violence.<\/p>\n

It is well known that I am severely physically disabled and
\nincapable of adequately defending myself. Even of I tried to defend
\nmyself, I know for a fact that I’d be treated as the aggressor and
\nwould find myself arrested and going to jail, charged with a crime
\nthat was committed against ME!<\/p>\n

Not a single Safe House for battered men exists anywhere in
\nCanada…NOT 1! Yet, the BC Provincial Government continues to fund
\nSafe Houses for battered women (which is a good thing), yet they do
\nNOTHING for men.<\/p>\n

What’s the solution for men such as myself? Homeless shelters where
\nthey have to sleep on a mat on the floor and be up and out for the
\nday at 7am and wait in line at 6pm in hopes of having a mat for the
\nnight, surrounded by drug addicted, criminals, and other Violent men
\nassaulting others in the shelter. Being as disabled as i am as a
\nresult of my workplace injury and having lumbar fusion surgery just
\nprior to the Pandemic, I’d be an easy target for violence, theft,
\nrobbery, assault.How is this a safe place? It’s not! Nevermind the
\nfact that throughout my entire life from childhood until present day
\nI’ve been repeatedly victimized by women (and men), including my own
\nso-called ‘mother’.<\/p>\n

Both the BC Privincial Government and the Government of Canada have
\nFAILED me and COUNTLESS other men!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Headline: Provincial and Federal Governments in Canada have failed male victims of Intimate Partner Violence. Here is my Story. I am a victim of Intimate Partner Violence at the hands of my wife. Verbal, emotional and mental abuse. Twice I’ve been physically abused (nearly a year ago). Repeatedly I’ve had to call the Police and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement-government-abuses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}