George Floyd: Police Violence and Sensitivity Training

george floyd: It is recognizing that policing itself is a form of harm, says author Robyn Maynard, whose book Policing Black Lives chronicles the history of state violence against Black people in Canada, according to National Observer. What do we need to prioritize instead of these massive, bloated policing budgets, of over a billion dollars in the case of Toronto. The death of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer last month has revived calls to defund police amid frustration that reforms such as more sensitivity training for officers and the use of body cameras has not stopped police violence, which disproportionately targets people of colour. What would it mean to direct that towards people's real needs she asks. What people are reading It's time to call out denialism on racism and on climate change Canada's managed forests have turned into super-emitters, and 2018 set a record Inside Amazon with a fired whistleblower and former Maren Costa and Tim Bray But the concept of actively diverting funding from Toronto's police force, which has a long-acknowledged history of racial discrimination, is not on the agenda for John Tory, the city's mayor. This is a project that in many ways is calling for us to imagine and think about the possibility of safety entirely differently, she says. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.