Charges have been dropped against a prominent northern Alberta First Nations chief who was the subject of a violent arrest earlier this year.

The case of Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation was in front of a Fort McMurray provincial court judge Wednesday where charges of resisting arrest and assaulting a peace officer were withdrawn by the Crown.

Adam said he was overwhelmed by Wednesday’s decision to drop those charges, but knew he did nothing wrong.

“If we are to move forward in any capacity, we have to seriously open the eyes of each and every non-native Canadian to the realities that we, Indigenous people of the land, have had to live with for decades,” he said.

“This case, like too many others in recent weeks, shines a light on systemic racism that for too long has gone unchecked and unbridled,” Allan’s lawyer Brian Beresh said.

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