The fatal shooting of an unarmed black youth, Michael Brown, by police and the resultant protests in Ferguson, Missouri, are watched from a distance in Canada. The festering ‘racial’ tensions often interpreted as something remote and inapplicable to Canadians. As I watch from afar, however, I know only too well that racially motivated police violence is very real and present in Canada, that the experience in Ferguson is not so far away. Broadbent Policy Fellow Rinaldo Walcott
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:06:27 +0000
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