Speak out against racism, demand wholesale change in Canada’s police forces

If this makes you uncomfortable, good. Discomfort is required in this discussion. Discomfort won’t kill you. But the fear and alarm that Indigenous peoples have when we have to interact with police, it might kill us.

Indigenous women, pictured Feb. 24, 2020, demonstrating in Ottawa in support of the Wetʼsuwetʼen nation and against the building of the Coastal Gasoline pipeline. In the second quarter of 2020, racism and police brutality was brought to the forefront of the world’s consciousness. Black Americans, Native Americans, and allies closed down American cities as a measure of the stark and desperate urgency to change whole systems. Racism and police brutality have no place in any democracy, writes Rose LeMay. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ROSE LEMAY
June 15, 2020

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Speak out against racism, demand wholesale change in Canada’s police forces

If this makes you uncomfortable, good. Discomfort is required in this discussion. Discomfort won’t kill you. But the fear and alarm that Indigenous peoples have when we have to interact with police, it might kill us.

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