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Posted: 2020-09-30T23:39:37Z | Updated: 2020-09-30T23:50:55Z

Content warning: First Nations readers are warned that the following article contains images of deceased persons and discusses racism.

The death of an Atikamekw woman who livestreamed a Quebec hospital workers racist insults in the last moments of her life has left the province reeling, with some calling Joyce Echaquan the provinces own George Floyd.

The 37-year-old mother of seven died Monday in a Joliette hospital , a three-hour drive south from her home in the First Nations reserve of Manawan. Shortly before her death, she posted a live video on Facebook in which she is seen tied to her gurney. Out of the cameras view, at least two health-care workers can be heard uttering racist slurs and dismissing Echaquans worries that the medication she was being given could aggravate a known heart condition for which she had had a pacemaker since 2014.