Exploring Theme: "Systemic Racism in RCMP"

Toronto Star: Over an 11-day period this past summer, police in Canada killed six Indigenous people. Four were shot: And two were fatally struck by police vehicles: In November, four more Indigenous people were killed in separate incidents by police. Three were shot: Eugene Joseph, 47, of Tl’azt’en First Nation, died in RCMP custody.  We do not yet know the details of each...

First Nations chiefs voted a day earlier in support of an inquiry into systemic racism and police deaths in Canada. Canada’s National Observer: OTTAWA—Mothers of Indigenous people who died in encounters with police said a national inquiry will only be useful if it leads to accountability.  At a press conference Wednesday during the Assembly of First...

APTN News: The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is calling on politicians of all stripes to support a national inquiry into systemic racism in policing and police-related deaths of First Nations people, calling it a human rights issue that requires commitment from all leaders. “For too long, First Nations people have been...