Canada confronts racism in police in wake of indigenous deaths

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Canada confronts racism in police in wake of indigenous deaths – National Post

by ahnationtalk on June 25, 202081 Views

Jun 24, 2020

TORONTO, June 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As Americans protest the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other black people at the hands of police, Canadians are facing a reckoning of their own.

Since April, six indigenous people have been fatally shot by police, including a woman killed during a “wellness check,” and a video went viral of a First Nations chief being beaten by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers in March.

Race troubles in Canadian policing have been thrust into the spotlight in recent weeks, following the global Black Lives Matters protests and the succession of cases of police violence against indigenous people.

“There is systemic racism in Canada,” said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a news conference this month, calling for investigations into the recent cases to be made public.