Ted Rutland on what we learn from two killings

Ted Rutland et al. have a good piece in CultMTL about what official response to the killings of Jannai Dopwell‑Bailey and Thomas Trudel tells us about attitudes so ingrained in our society that powerful people can deny they are there.

I also like the insight that One‑Sixty was not the secret name of a gang Dopwell-Bailey belonged to, but merely a reference to a group of high school students who take the 160 bus through Côte‑des‑Neiges. Not that politicians and talking heads take the bus.

Richard Martineau, Rutland says, “ultimately blames the death of both Trudel and Dopwell-Bailey on the supposed failings of Black parents.” A must-read.

Patrick Lagacé also has a good piece today on the biases inherent in assumptions about skin colour and crime.