A police officer’s knee was pinned against the neck of a University of Toronto student as he was repeatedly Tasered on the ground with his hands behind his head before his identification proved what he had told police – they had the wrong man, a statement of claim says.
Hasani O’Gilvie is now suing the Toronto police for $1.6 million in damages.
Underground rapper was racially profiled by Toronto police, judge finds, tossing gun charge
… While Thomas acquitted Tesfai in the 2018 case last August, he remained in custody after a later arrest in the fall of 2021 for possessing a gun after he was shot near Parliament and Wellesley streets.
Last month, he pleaded guilty to possessing a loaded prohibited handgun, possessing two prohibited devices (overcapacity magazines) and possession of a firearm contrary to an order.
Often, if there’s a massive political controversy gripping the country, there’s a good chance that the Supreme Court of Canada had something to do with it.
Ontario was recently driven into a miniature constitutional crisis due to a Supreme Court decision declaring that striking is a Constitutional right. A series of recent Supreme Court decisions kneecapping bail and sentencing provisions has helped fuel a crisis of “catch and release” justice. And, of course, Canada is now experiencing regular incidents of contentious assisted suicide cases — a regime whose existence is due entirely to Supreme Court order.
Foreign fugitives have high chances of dodging deportation from Canada each year, as records show that of thousands of foreigners ordered to leave the country over the past six years, just 48 percent were actually deported.
An Inquiry of Ministry, presented to the House of Commons by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), said of the 13,287 foreigners ordered out of the country since 2016, a total of 6,322 were deported, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
When Peter Khill awoke to the sound of banging outside his home at about 3 a.m. on Feb. 4, 2016, Crown prosecutor Sean Doherty said on Monday, “He went and got his shotgun, not his phone to call 911.”
The third trial of Peter Khill began Monday in Hamilton. He’s accused of murder in the 2016 shooting death of Jon Styres, a 29-year-old man from Six Nations of the Grand River. Khill was found not guilty of second-degree murder following a 12-day trial in June 2018. After an appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada, last October, ordered a new trial. That second trial began last Tuesday, but ended in a mistrial a day later after a juror was dismissed over a conflict of interest and another left for a family emergency.
Two of America’s biggest pharmacies have agreed to pay more than $10bn to resolve thousands of lawsuits over their roles in the US opioid crisis.
The proposed deals with CVS and Walgreens mark the latest chapter of a long legal saga, in which firms have faced claims they helped drive the abuse of addictive painkillers.
Settlements with drugmakers and distributors have already brought in more than $30bn.
The pharmacies have denied wrongdoing.
Who is this country for?
Who do the people in power lean toward when they make decisions on crime, public safety and Canada’s future?
An anti-woke chief constable who promoted a “back to basics” strategy has lifted Greater Manchester Police (GMP) out of special measures in less than 18 months.
Under Stephen Watson’s leadership 999 call answer times have been cut from an average of one minute 22 seconds to seven seconds, response times have been reduced and arrests have increased by 60 per cent. He has also ordered officers to improve their public image by ironing uniforms, polishing boots, shaving and tying up long hair.
This: ‘A narrative that already exists’: How Toronto police prepared to publish data confirming systemic racism
The problem is the “data” did not confirm anything beyond the fact that it was skewed by design in order to push the preferred race-baiting narrative as Lorrie Goldstein so ably pointed out.
GOLDSTEIN: Here’s why we no longer talk honestly about police race-based data
… But what the report excludes are the crime rates in the various communities with which the police interact.
Logically that’s part of the equation because if they are higher in some communities than others, that will impact the frequency and type of their interactions with police.
However, it has been illegal for police forces in Ontario to gather or reveal this data for decades.
GOLDSTEIN: Policing report exposes flawed logic of race-crime statistics
… In other words, while Blacks were disproportionately charged by police compared to whites (15,122 per 100,000 compared to 3,853 per 100,000), whites were disproportionately charged by police compared to visible minority groups other than Blacks (3,853 per 100,000 compared to 2,116 per 100,000).
The problem with this logic is that it infers that for the police to prove they aren’t racist, they must demonstrate the percentage of people they arrest and charge in every racial group reflects their percentage of the population.
According to her own words, Stacy Clarke never envisioned a career in police because she didn’t see herself — as a Black woman — represented within the rank and file.
When she did join the Toronto Police Service in 1998, it was a result of the force’s “valiant” effort to “recruit within our diverse communities,” she said, speaking about her career in the police podcast, 24 Shades of Blue. Still, after her hire, she continued to sense the organizational culture was not doing enough to add racial diversity to leadership ranks.
“I again was not seeing myself represented in those positions,” she said.
