From today’s Gazette: $20,000 QUESTION ARE COPS TARGETING TEENS OF COLOUR?‘ We did not profile because of race,’ police sayIRWIN BLOCK THE GAZETTEOn a steamy August night in 2003, 13-yearold Jonas Cassey, his brother Henri, 16, and four teenage friends were sitting on a low metal fence and chatting. The …
For immediate releasePhilippines-Canada Task Force on Human RightsSeptember 21, 2007 Filipinos driven away from their own community by Montreal police intimidation (Montreal, Quebec) During a peaceful demonstration yesterday in front of the Plamondon metro station in Montreal’s Cote-des-Neiges area, peace-loving Filipinos and Canadians were driven away from their own community …
From the Kabataang Montreal blog: Police brutality continues in Cote-des-Neiges; a 17 year old Filipino teenage girl experiences police brutality by Montreal police officers September 9, 2007 Montreal, Quebec –On August 24th, the latest complaint against Montreal police harassment in the Cote-des-Neiges area is against two police officers for manhandling …
Julie Cox, holding her 4-year-old daughter Kheisha at a news conferenceyesterday, was arrested with her son Lynwald (right) after beingviolently abused by Montreal police last week Police officer’s from Montreal’s Station 25 harassed, beat and pepper sprayed a Black motorist and his mother last week, on June 13th. Here is …
Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of ‘a Few Bad Apples’by Carol Tator and Frances Henry. Published by University of Toronto Press, 2006 In their book Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of ‘a Few Bad Apples’, authors Carol Tator and Frances Henry – and contributors Charles C. …
For the past month or more i have been putting off reviewing this book about racial profiling. i’ve spent today hammering out some thoughts, but am not there yet – but it did occur to me that it would be useful to have some sketched out description of what the …
In a photo provided by Afzal Badin, he displays some of the injuries inflicted by Toronto police officers This is a story of racism and police abuse, horrible in its own right. While what happened to Afzal Badin and his family shouldn’t happen to anyone, all indications are that it …
Sorry i didn’t post this earlier – i’m no longer in the habit of reading the Mirror. This article by Montreal activist/journalist Stefan Christoff is a welcome mention of Mohamed Anas Bennis in the local media. Montreal Mirror: Why did Mohamed-Anas Bennis die? by Stefan Christoff One year after Montreal …
Mohamed Anas Bennis,shot dead by Montreal’s killer copson December 1st 2005 Montreal’s Collective Opposed to Police Brutality have released the following document summarizing the past year’s bullshit whitewash of the police killing of Mohamed Anas Bennis. This killing, the brazen secrecy and disrespect on the part of the government, and …