Investigations Unit: Abdirahman Abdi and Somali-Canadian Man

investigations unit: The criminal justice and police oversight systems in Canada aren't malfunctioning, according to Rabble. They were designed to disproportionately criminalize communities of colour. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. So Black Lives Matter Toronto is saying: shut it down. At the Special Investigations Unit in Mississauga, Ont., BLM Toronto made clear to a throng of supporters and community members that reforms to the SIU, the body tasked with investigating police brutality, are not sufficient. "They shoot us or kill us within minutes," said Syrus Marcus Ware, an artist, educator and activist. "They have had ample training, so don't talk to me about training. On the one-month anniversary of police killing Abdirahman Abdi, a 37-year-old Somali-Canadian man, outside his Ottawa home, Black Lives Matter chapters rallied in seven cities across Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.