A LOT of media here at the #JusticeForSoli Vigil.
Good.
Soleiman's brother Yusuf says this will be the last vigil.
Desmond Cole points out that the police have investigated Soleiman's death THREE TIMES ALREADY and managed not to see any problem with what happened.
And now we have to ask THEM to investigate for a fourth time.
They are PART of the fucked up system.
#TheMastersTools #FuckThePolice #Carcerality #JusticeForSoli
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A public vigil is being held Saturday night to mark the seventh anniversary of the death of Soleiman Faqiri.
The event, being held at Yonge-Dundas Square, comes just days after a coroner’s inquest deemed the death of the mentally ill man at an Ontario jail a homicide.
Lawyers for the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, which represents correctional staff, wanted his death to be ruled accidental.
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Four different stuff I hope you're supposed to understand.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/12/16/7th-anniversary-of-soleiman-faqiris-death-vigil/
A LOT of media here at the #JusticeForSoli Vigil.
Good.
📣 #Toronto TONIGHT 📣
At the newly-renamed SANKOFA Square:
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🕯 Justice for Soli 🕯
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7th Annual Vigil
December 16th, 6pm
̶Y̶o̶n̶g̶e̶-̶N̶a̶m̶e̶l̶e̶s̶s̶ Sankofa Square
Come stand with your at-risk neighbours as we mourn the loss of Soleiman Faqiri,
M U R D E R E D by the state — and that is, in fact, the finding of the inquest concluded this week — and call for justice for those WHO COMMITTED the murder.
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Mental illness is not a crime,
and it definitely is not punishable by death.
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#JusticeforSoli #FuckThePolice #DefundDisarmDismantle
#MentalIllnessIsNotACrime #TorontoActions #LegalObservers
In other news, something positive in the distressing case of Soli Faqiri:
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Soleiman Faqiri's deadly restraint by Ontario jail guards in 2016 has been deemed a homicide — words his family has waited to hear for nearly seven years since he died shackled, pepper sprayed and covered with a spit hood face down on a cell floor.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/soleiman-faqiri-inquest-verdict-1.7053473
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If you're in #Toronto I hope to see you at the vigil Saturday at 6pm, Yonge-Nameless Square.
Soleiman Faqiri’s deadly restraint by Ontario jail guards in 2016 has been deemed a homicide — words his family has waited to hear for nearly seven years, since he died shackled, pepper sprayed and covered with a spit hood face down on a cell floor.
CW death in custody
When people say "defund police and put that money into services" this is exactly why.
#Toronto I hope to see you out next Saturday (the 16th) at the vigil. 6pm. Yonge-Nameless Square.
#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #JusticeforSoli
Tonight is the vigil. 6pm.
Yonge-Nameless Square.
Why?
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/video?clipId=2586220
Details:
https://kolektiva.social/@MovementDefenceCmtee/109492222491437082