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Jermaine Carby: Machuar Madut and Andrew Loku

jermaine carby: Weeks after the incident, Ontario's Special Investigation Unit announced it will start a process to collect race-based data in effort to identify and monitor systemic racial disparities and ensure the fair treatment of everyone, according to a report from The Canadian Press, according to Rabble. This historic step forward also comes at the expense of many Black and Indigenous people who died at the hands of police such as Andrew Loku, D'Andre Campbell, Jason Collins, Eisha Hudson, Machuar Madut, Olando Brown, Jermaine Carby, and countless others. The Black community and allies are demanding answers for what happened to Korchiniski-Paquet, and the many other Black people who ended up dead after police were called. The collection of race-based disaggregated data is not a question of convenience, it is a question of human rights. you can't know the degree to which you are helping your citizens realize their full human rights, or that you're adequately protecting their human rights, if you're not collecting and openly reporting this data, said Anthony Morgan, a racial justice lawyer who leads a team at the City of Toronto to address anti-Black racism. In 2017, The United Nations' Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent released a report on its findings of the state of Black communities across Canada and made recommendations. Critics have long advocated for the collection of race-based data by law enforcement agencies. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.