Gigi 🍄🟫Kicking off the evening with a rousing round of:
NO GOOD COPS IN A RACIST SYSTEM.
Holding it down at the Orange Hats table with my peeps.
#Toronto #TorontoActions
#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #FuckThePolice
Our Emcee is Desmond Cole.
SPEAKERS
Anne Marie White
Claudette Clayton-Korchinski
Martha Martin
Nhora Aust
Vanessa
Laura Holland
Robin Rice
Tylor Maxie-Coore
Brianna Olson
Pitawanakwat
Dr. Winston LaRose ("Mr. Jane and Finch")
Tonight's event is in memory of:
Anthony Griffin, Buddy Evans, Albert Johnson, Leslie Presley, Marcellus Francois, Fritzgerald Forbes, Trevor Kelly, Gladys Tolley, Sammy Yatim, Jermaine Carby, Andrew Loku, Bony Jean-Pierre Abdirahman Abdi, Pierre Coriolan, Jimmy Cloutier, Olando Brown, Jamal Francique, D'Andre Campbell, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Rodney Levi, Chantel Moore, Mike Moore, Eishia Hudson, Julian Jones, Anthony Aust, Jared Jay" Lowndes, Taresh "Bobby" Ramroop, Jon Wells, Ron Skunk, Danny Knife, Iggy Dedam, Jason West, Tammy Bateman, Hoss Lightning Saddleback, Jack Charles Piche, Erixon Kabera, Joshua Papigatuk.
Canada's whole ugly history is being rehashed.
From the North-west Mounted Police (later the RCMP) to police murders today.
It's all the same.
They're murderous garbage.
We don't need them.
A breach of conditions is NOT A CAPITAL OFFENCE.
THERE 👏🏾 ARE 👏🏾 NO 👏🏾 CAPITAL 👏🏾 OFFENCES 👏🏾 IN 👏🏾 CANADA.
It's not just the police.
Vanessa tells us about her daughter.
#SystemicRacism
There was so much love and sorrow in that room tonight. I doubt anyone got out of there without shedding a single tear.
The endless police violence is a discussion that we need to have nationally.
I think we all agreed with the position that we need to have people's tribunals and hold police accountable because the Self-Investigation Unit, and the myriad provincial equivalents, will not.
Tylor Maxie-Coore thanked the people who prayed for him and the people who protested for him, especially the mothers.
He told his story of needing help, and instead being maimed for life.
He spoke of how the incident has changed his life, the doubts he's had in the intervening months, and how he had forgotten that there is a community out there for him.
#JusticeForTylor #JusticeForErixton #JusticeForRegis #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #FuckThePolice
My take away of the evening is that we need to do better at taking care of each other.
💕 🫶 💕 🫶 💕
We need care, not cops.
🙅🏽 👮 🙅🏾♂️ 👮♀️ 🙅🏻♀️
Ironically part of my day was spent getting hand bills for an upcoming action that has two sets of branding, some of which were distributed tonight.
Nobody who has ever genuinely thought,
❝
I never want to kill another human being,
❞
has gone on to become a cop.
#TorontoActions #TorontoActivists #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings
Askold
Nikki@Gigi this is awful.