Police Violence and Riot Places

riot: To commemorate it, a new film, It Takes A Riot, premiered at Ryerson, according to NOW Magazine. It documents the protest organized against police violence and police acquittals in the deaths of Black people that led to the uprising. Our racial record tolerable compared to U.S. Those headlines - the first quoting then NDP premier Bob Rae, the second over a story authored by longtime lefty political commentator Gerald Caplan - appeared in the Toronto Star on May 6, 1992, a couple of days after the Yonge Street riot, which marked its 25th anniversary earlier this month. It Takes A Riot places more firmly into the public sphere at least one way to think about Black Canadian activism, how it should be assessed and its impacts felt. Inevitably our situation is compared to a U.S. that is always much worse. A reading of the headlines from back then also captures how the white left imagined and continues to view issues of anti-Black racism. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.