A Native woman in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, is on trial for allegedly assaulting two officers, one of whom ended up shooting her.

Leanne Severight, 37, admits she was intoxicated on the afternoon of the December 2007 incident. But officers said she rushed towards them with knives even as she voiced suicidal thoughts.

"Well i have court today at queens bench im an indian and sill probably get life nowing the cloned justice system..............lol," Severight wrote on her Facebook page yesterday before the trial.

The incident occurred a week after a Native man was shot and killed by police in Saskatoon. The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations said police shot seven Native people, four of them fatally, between 2001 and 2008.

Severight has pleaded not guilty to charges of carrying weapons for a purpose dangerous to the public peace and assaulting a police officer.

Get the Story:
Officer testifies shooting result of immediate threat (The Saskatoon StarPhoenix 6/1)
Trial begins for woman shot by Sask. police (CBC 5/31)