Toronto Police and Desmond Cole

police scrutiny: The Toronto police think the gang exists, and have used its alleged existence as an excuse to criminalize and harass the greater community, especially its large population of residents of Somali police scrutiny of black and Muslim people is sadly nothing new in Toronto, according to Toronto Star. Sometimes our media attempts to expose the prejudicial treatment but most reporting — through laziness, sensationalism, and ingrained ignorance — simply reinforces anti-black racism. By Desmond Cole Thu., June 9, 2016 Is there a gang operating out of several condo towers in northwest Toronto called the Dixon City Bloods The truth is that it doesn't really matter. The creators of a new VICE documentary recklessly entitled This is Dixon claim they wanted to find out if Dixon is really home to a gang. The film begins with narrator Suroosh Alvi telling viewers he spent his summers as a teenager living in Dixon. But their work amounts to a fool errand, a misguided mission to answer irrelevant question that has further demonized Dixon Somali community. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.