Tomorrow we're discussing policing in my "History of Here" course. We'll start in the 19th and continue through the turn of the 21st century. A key event: the killing of Michael Wade Lawson, a Black 17 year-old from #Mississauga, #Ontario, shot in the back by Peel Regional Police. Four years later, an all-white jury acquitted the two officers involved of second-degree murder and aggravated assault.

The lecture's musical accompaniment:

Skank Ranks, "Wade Lawson" (1992)

https://youtu.be/NwQM0J2y704