Commentary
On June 27, 2021, Harry Cope brutally attacked Brittany Sack, his common law partner, on Cunard Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A video recording documented a vicious, prolonged beating, during which Cope repeatedly punched and kicked Sack. Police officers found Sack lying on the ground with severe injuries to the left side of her bloodied and swollen face. In the emergency room, she was assessed as having a broken bone in her face, a possible break in her breastbone, pooling of blood under the skin of her breastbone, and significant swelling of her eye. After his arrest, a highly intoxicated Cope told police several times that he “smashed her in the face” and that she hit him, so he hit her back….