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Black arrest rates highest | Toronto Star
There had been another one.
Soon, a police officer would face the thankless task of breaking the news to yet another anguished family. The officer would have to tell Omar Sheriff Christian’s next-of-kin that the 26-year-old was dead - shot as he stood outside an Etobicoke nightclub.
His killing, like many others in the black community, sparked a tragic chain reaction. Police allege that Christian’s friends, who knew him as ‘Face’, took off in a fury to avenge his death. But instead of finding his killer that hot July night last year, they found community activist Paul Watson, 33, and his 29-year-old friend Michael Lewis. The two were on the doorstep of a Toronto housing complex.
In the space of 24 hours, three black men lay dead; their names added to a list many have mourned.
“Look at the news, all the shootings that have happened - look at the news, “ despairs Bev Folkes of the Black Inmates and Friends Assembly. “You’re seeing black faces, black faces. I don’t want to turn the TV on.”
A Star investigation, conducted by analyzing police arrest records, showed that in certain cases where police have discretion to use personal judgment, blacks receive harsher treatment than whites. Last weekend’s stories prompted a flood of letters and phone calls from black readers who say they have been subjected to racial bias by police.
Black arrest rates highest | Toronto Star
There had been another one.
Soon, a police officer would face the thankless task of breaking the news to yet another anguished family. The officer would have to tell Omar Sheriff Christian’s next-of-kin that the 26-year-old was dead - shot as he stood outside an Etobicoke nightclub.
His killing, like many others in the black community, sparked a tragic chain reaction. Police allege that Christian’s friends, who knew him as ‘Face’, took off in a fury to avenge his death. But instead of finding his killer that hot July night last year, they found community activist Paul Watson, 33, and his 29-year-old friend Michael Lewis. The two were on the doorstep of a Toronto housing complex.
In the space of 24 hours, three black men lay dead; their names added to a list many have mourned.
“Look at the news, all the shootings that have happened - look at the news, “ despairs Bev Folkes of the Black Inmates and Friends Assembly. “You’re seeing black faces, black faces. I don’t want to turn the TV on.”
A Star investigation, conducted by analyzing police arrest records, showed that in certain cases where police have discretion to use personal judgment, blacks receive harsher treatment than whites. Last weekend’s stories prompted a flood of letters and phone calls from black readers who say they have been subjected to racial bias by police.
