Regis Korchinski-Paquet: Ableist Status and Police Brutality

regis korchinski-paquet: Every additional second of this reality represents the further exposure of Indigenous, Black, racialized, poor and disabled people to harm, death and trauma, according to Rabble. But amid our sadness, anger and fear is excitement about unprecedented social and political willingness to create something new. He joins Rodney Levi, Chantel Moore, D'Andre Campbell, Regis Korchinski-Paquet and hundreds of other deceased victims in the archives of police brutality and neglect -- more proof we shouldn't have needed that police routinely inflict the violence they supposedly exist to counter; that they serve and protect the colonial, racial, ableist status quo; and that their murderous MO is seemingly impervious to public scrutiny and rage. This moment is born out of the unrelenting activism of Indigenous and Black communities, who have mobilized in grief, rage and love for years against state violence. As a social worker, I join my critical peers in challenging this assumption. Heavily present in our post-police society imaginings are, apparently, social workers and mental health practitioners -- pitched as non-violent substitutes to the police in answering crisis situations, and more generally as staples in a society organized around collective well-being. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.