Thursday, April 14, 2016

Nick Champani - CEC - Toronto: The Statistics Oppose Black Lives Matter



Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter protesters in front of the Toronto Police Headquarters

On Monday April 4, 2016, more than hundred Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters rallied at Queens Park. This was a continuation of a protest involving BLM members who, starting on March 20 illegally squatted in makeshift tents and set bonfires in front of Toronto Police Headquarters. The squatting began a day after the Ontario Special Investigations Unit (SIU) announced that no charges would be laid against the unidentified officer who fatally shot a Black man named Andrew Loku in a confrontation with Toronto Police in the summer of 2015. 

Mr. Loku reportedly suffered from mental illness. His death has now become the motive for recent BLM squatting campaigns in Toronto. 

BLM claims to be 

a call to action, a response to virulent anti-Black racism and is against the not legally authorized killings of Black people by police and vigilantes.
One of the organizers, Christina Gabriella Griffin, made it clear following their Toronto rally that 
Toronto and other cities need to know that if your police force is committed to an anti-black program, there's going to be more tent cities. As long as the killing keeps going on, we're going to be out here.
But what exactly happened to Mr. Loku is the real question. . . .
http://www.eurocanadian.ca/2016/04/the-statistics-oppose-black-lives-matter.html#more