Tracking the damage done by
Excellent piece by CBC’s Verity Stevenson looks at one reason our cops started doing intensive street checks on Black youths: a series of lurid newspaper articles in the 1980s reporting on street gang crime that didn’t exist. But this reportage became a “fact” used to ramp up police funding over time.
Uatu 10:39 on 2020-07-10 Permalink
Yeah, black gangs = crackdown on any black teens. Meanwhile Mom Boucher showed up at a hockey game, was introduced to the crowd and got a huge round of applause. Sure, no systematic racism in Quebec.