The RCMP issued a statement saying it was aware that portions of the radio transmission had been leaked to the internet but that it had not given permission to use the tape because they are 'operational police communications' that are not meant for public consumption. 'Okay, Badger's at the back of the bus, hacking off pieces and eating it,' he says at the end of the approximately 80-second recording.
In the tape of police radio transmissions, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer refers to the attacker as 'Badger' and says he is armed with a knife and a pair of scissors and 'is defiling the body at the front of the bus as we speak.' Photo by AP/Canadian Press.A police officer at the scene of a grisly beheading on a Canadian bus reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim's body and eating them, according to a police tape leaked today on the internet. Alex McLean, uncle of Tim McLean who was killed aboard a Greyhound bus Thursday, surrounded by family members reads a statement from the family today.
