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Kojo Damptey, PhD student & Sessional Instructor for the African & Black Diaspora Studies program, McMaster University

An unfinished reckoning with police violence: Community data shows ongoing systemic racism

It’s been roughly six years since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked a global conversation about anti-Black police violence and the excessive use of police force against Black and Indigenous communities.

Around the same time, in Toronto, the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet — who fell from the balcony of an apartment while police officers were present — elicited outrage in Canada.

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