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Journalist, author Website: For bookings contact Scott Sellers ssellers @penguinrandomhouse .com

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@DesmondCole

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I'm teaching a section of a journalism course at U of T, with a group of talented journalists. You can enroll for a spring/summer section of the course (which begins soon) or a section in the fall Big thanks to @ShenazKermalli for making this possible

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@DesmondCole

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"bring our children home" in Toronto, at X University

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the city is threatening legal action against Khaleel Seivwright for building shelters on city property. his solution is to place the shelters on private property from now on. anyone who can help him do this, please step up

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CBC Toronto

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City issues warning letter to Toronto carpenter building shelters for unhoused people

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Two passengers on that United plane refused to leave before David Dao did. His refusal was the one police wouldn't accept. Interesting.

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. @TorontoStar says I can't be a columnist and an activist at the same time, so I'm giving up my column.

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I'm at city hall. the council chamber has been cleared twice for people disruptions, but this time many haven't left, and neither have most media. here a sample of what people are saying:

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interesting to see Ontario's education minister complain that 80 cents of every dollar spent on education goes to pay and benefits this is also true of policing a full-time OPP officer who finishes training makes $75,000/yr a full-time education worker makes $49,000/yr

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the TTC mandatory face mask plan does not include enforcement. instead, transit officials will hand out masks for free this is the approach we should always take, knowing that enforcement always targets poor and racialized peeps. help us be safe instead of punishing us

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white toronto finally found a black person worthy of free food and housing

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Kawhi Leonard was offered a free multi-million dollar penthouse if he stays in Toronto 👀

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politicians be like, I deeply regret my travel abroad during the pandemic, I hereby resign from all my ceremonial positions you never knew I had, I will stay on as your elected representative as we continue to weather this storm together lol

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4 years

university of toronto professor Alissa Trotz has resigned from her positions at @MasseyCollege over the school's appointment of Margaret Wente as a senior fellow. during her journalism career, Wente published racist pseudoscience, and was repeatedly investigated for plagiarism

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510 days ago, a court ordered @JustinTrudeau to equalize welfare funding for indigenous kids on reserves—he hasn't #NationalAboriginalDay

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3 years

the police have always maintained that their stops are never "random". when they say "we won't do random stops," they're saying every time they stop someone, it will be for a good reason the word "random" is not in the government order. this isn't the victory people think it is

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5 years

we're done. in terms of positioning: liberals and greens are running against the conservatives conservatives are running against the liberals the ndp is running against the elites the bloc is running against ottawa maxime bernier is a white supremacist #leadersdebate2019

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4 years

look can we try black supremacy for a couple of centuries just to switch it up I'm so bored

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Terry Crews

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Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth. Like it or not, we are all in this together.

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last night, activists in hamilton convinced the public school board to remove police officers from schools. big congrats for the amazing organizing by young black folks in that city!!

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6 years

I don't want to wake up on june 8th and read that 53% of ontario's white women voted for doug ford, y'all better come correct

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62-year old Ejaz Ahmed Choudry was alone at home when peel regional police went, in their words, to check on his well-being. the police murdered him tactical units, dogs, tasers and handguns for a man alone in his home? fuck the police abolish the police

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Family identifies man, 62, who was shot and killed by police in Mississauga as SIU investigates |...

Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after a 62-year-old man died in a police-involved shooting in Mississauga on Saturday evening.

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4 years

all week I've been getting calls from media asking about protests this weekend. I haven't heard of any known community groups who are organizing, or seen any public flyers. why do police and media know more about a supposed upcoming protest than the public? very, very strange

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Miranda Anthistle

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This is what it looks like at Yonge & Dundas this morning. Most businesses have boarded up their windows after police were made aware of information circulating online encouraging people to “wreak havoc” during the protests this weekend. Details coming up on @globalnewsto

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police shot and killed Eishia Hudson for stealing alcohol. they shot and killed D'Andre Campbell in his own house after he called police for help but the white active shooter driving around nova scotia? the RCMP took him alive

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4 years

socialism!

@CBCNS

CBC Nova Scotia

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Halifax Public Libraries is eliminating fines for overdue books, saying that fines disproportionately affect vulnerable community members. Nearly 38,000 people were blocked from borrowing due to past charges. They'll all get a blank slate.

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3 years

we really live in a country where a baby can be shot to death and, since the police are involved, there's no urgency to provide even basic information about what happened

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1 year

"neighbourhood policing" is when cops harass you by name

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5 years

the toronto star: desmond, we hold our columnists to the highest ethical standards. you need to act right or else also the toronto star:

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4 years

just wanna remind everyone that this started with jagmeet singh moving a motion to recognize racism within the RCMP, publicize RCMP use of force reports and settlement costs, and review RCMP use of force toni morrison told us the very serious function of racism is distraction

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Rosemary Barton

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Blanchet: I don't want for this to be drawn out and for everyone to pulled into this. But as our whip explained if the leader of the House doesn't take serious action and the NDP refuses to apologize for the insults, this means anyone in the House can say whatever they like.

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unconscious bias training is fine but where's the "you know damn well" training?

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3 years

toronto is also a couple hundred of us, arms linked, surrounding the living spaces of residents who don't want to be evicted from trinity bellwoods park. we're not leaving! spread the news join us if you can, even to witness come show love and say no to mayor tory's cruelty

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7 years

NEWS: the toronto district school board is suspending its program of police in schools until at least november a huge victory!!! @tdsb

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when Doug Ford distorted Sarah Jama's words, Marit Stiles and the NDP didn't defend her when Jama called for a ceasefire, Stiles stayed quiet, then echoed Jama's call days later please explain how Sarah made the NDP "unsafe" when you were using her as a shield this entire time

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the body cam footage of the cop assaulting Masai Ujiri shows the limits of that technology. white people are like "now we know what really happened" when black people been knew, and the cop faces no consequences for his blatant assault. y'all keep thinking about it tho

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today we gathered to remember Regis Korchinski-Paquet one year after a police intervention led to her death. we had a ceremony at Queen's Park, then marched on the route police tried to provoke us by grabbing three people, including an organizer. but they weren't ready for us

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5 years

toronto in solidarity with unist'ot'en #unistoten #wetsuwetenstrong

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4 years

the last couple of weeks have been tough, but life is still giving me reasons to feel grateful. thank you to everyone who has bought, shared, and recommended my book. thank you so much

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CBC Books

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The Skin We're In by @DesmondCole is the #1 Canadian nonfiction book this week.

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Don Stiles is a retired @TorontoPolice traffic sergeant. he e-mailed me saying he read my book but somehow I doubt it lol this is the racist garbage black people in canada face every day. we're going to abolish the police and challenge anti-black racism everywhere. deal with it

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I was arrested and criminally charged this morning for taking part in a pro-Palestine demonstration in January The millions struggling in Palestine are not alone, millions more are with them, pushing from abroad in love and solidarity ❤️🖤🤍💚

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7 years

god I love toronto

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2 years

during the G20 the police did exactly what many wish they'd do now in Ottawa. they indiscriminately targeted thousands of people, most of whom were peacefully demonstrating, laid bogus charges against them, and altered lives forever. in case you missed it, it was terrible

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4 years

defunding the police is a means of abolishing them. we're not asking for less carding, less surveillance, fewer assaults, or fewer deaths. we're taking the police's money because the work they do is killing us. your 2% reduction plan isn't going to fly so don't try us

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it's not what I was hoping for but I'll take it

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6 years

instead of letting grown people yell at each other for 90 minutes, interview each of them for 30 minutes. no studio audience, no cheerleaders, no one to argue with. make the candidates answer us instead of fighting one another #ONdebate

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7 years

good morning to everyone except nikki samuel, the woman who demanded a white doctor at a mississauga clinic

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4 years

james bone deserves a heritage minute for designing these

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Global National

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Canada Post apologizes for printing stamps with severed John A. Macdonald head

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5 years

when black people point out that marcella zoia (chair thrower) is getting such good treatment from media and police, it's not because we actually want the system to crush her we're saying there are alternatives to the disproportionate punishment we face for the most minor shit

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three years ago I signed a book deal with @doubledaybooks . I finally finished my draft this morning! if all goes well, "the skin we're in," a chronicle of white supremacy, anti-black racism, and black community resistance in canada, will debut in early 2019. I'm so excited!!

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2 years

my guy said abolish the police

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Paul Vieira

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Ottawa police chief Sloly: "There may not be a policing solution to this demonstration."

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pay attention to the insistence that the danforth shooting "is different" from gang violence. that no amount of policing could have stopped it. that the shooter was a "lone wolf". that "gang violence" is recurrent but mass murder by a white man is, by definition, a one-off

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the cops are mad at @AndreaHorwath for recently making a statement about the "killing" of Regis Korchinski-Paquet. the police want Horwath to delete her tweet and apologize. I hope the leader of the opposition remembers who she's dealing with and doesn't back down

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love this woke 2017 shit where acknowledging genocide gives you permission to keep doing it

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CBC Indigenous

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Trudeau tells the UN about Canada's great 'shame': its treatment of Indigenous peoples

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We didn't ask the police for an apology, we demanded lasting change from @JohnTory and Toronto's political class. we continue to demand police defunding and ultimately abolition, and no apology can substitute for that a statement from @NoPolicing

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the @torontostar reported that two police officers at lamport stadium were wearing "thin blue line" patches, but didn't publish their faces or name badges the officers name badges read A. Shakov and R. Crosby. if you anonymize this hate you are helping the haters

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got followed around by the "asset protection" person at my local @LoblawsON today. when I turned around and asked are u following me, they denied it I told the manager I'm not stealing from you, but given your prices I hope someone else is tired of this bs

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we must never forget all that Dafonte has suffered these last three and a half years, and how much his family has also suffered please support this fundraiser to help Dafonte and his family in their ongoing recovery Dafonte we love you #HereForDafonte

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when faith goldy ran for toronto mayor last fall, her major opponents refused to participate in debates with her. now maxime bernier is running and his opponents will debate him. white supremacists are gradually lowering the bar of acceptable public discourse in canada

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5 years

resign

@progresstoronto

Progress Toronto

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Drake asked Mayor Tory to light up the CN Tower in gold, and it happened. What do you want to ask @Drake to get Toronto's mayor to do? 🌊🌊🌊 #TOpoli

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journalists really thought they'd be exempt from police violence while reporting it. the media game of "objectivity" makes them believe they can document black people's pain without having to defend us

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it's clear from listening to his press conference today that Duggo Ford hates being reminded that he cancelled provincial paid sick leave in 2018, and has refused to bring it back during COVID-19 I hope this man chokes on his own indignation, what a ghoul

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after four years of hard work and support, this day has come: "the skin we're in—a year of black resistance and power" debuts in january 2020, and you can pre-order it now!!! chapters: kobo: audiobook:

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yes, police brutalize people demanding housing, and don't brutalize people shouting outside hospitals but simply pointing this out isn't enough. instead of demanding police be consistent, we need to abolish them and learn to resolve conflicts without threats, guns, and arrests

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nothing says modern like "tsar" lmfaooooo

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5 years

amid the reactions to jagmeet singh tolerating racists in person, few people are talking about his safety. how safe is it for singh to be campaigning if people who deny his identity feel so safe confronting him with their hatred? why are these violent acts treated as benign?

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she's been censured, defamed, and scapegoated, but MPP Sarah Jama remains focused on stopping the brutality against Gaza. we love and appreciate you sis ❤️🔥

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Sarah Jama

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Thirteen days ago, I called for an immediate ceasefire and de-escalation by the Israeli government, which had begun a horrific siege on Palestinians in Gaza. Since I made that statement, Israel has only escalated its assault on millions of Gazans. 1/

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starting today, an adult ttc metropass is $156 student and senior passes are now $128.15 service is often terrible, presto sucks, and the system is nowhere near accessible for many @johntory is hiring more goons to fine, arrest, and abuse riders we need to organize for change

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A message to Queen's Park media: Yesterday, many of you swarmed MPP Sarah Jama after the censure vote to film, photograph, and question her. That's your job However, your job does not give you the right to block the path of a person using a motorized wheelchair 1/

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3 years

y'all want cameras but this is how they act even when they know they're being filmed

@twentytwoloops

autistic tom truther

@twentytwoloops

3 years

This is #HamOnt . This is why we say @DefundHPS . Notice how she never raises her voice, yet he accuses her of being "unreasonable" and not listening, while repeatedly talking over her and threatening her with arrest for property damage that never happened. Then he lunges at her

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a year ago, dug ford framed this pandemic as the fault of individual rule-breakers who needed to be policed, fined, and punished. I feel like many people still accept that narrative of personal responsibility, which partly explains why dug stays popular no matter what he does

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I'm thinking about it

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Will Desmond Cole run for mayor of Toronto? He’s thinking about it: Keenan

It’s a big decision, obviously. And at this point, he certainly looks like a longshot to win. But the city could use the injection of energy, charisma, honesty and ideas Cole could bring to what...

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I was just arrested by @HamiltonPolice inside Hamilton city hall. We are demanding that @FredEisenberger meet publicly with @DefundHPS . this is his response. so we'll keep fighting. I'm safe, and waiting outside for my friends no housing no peace! no whack ass police!

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7 years

imagine a canada where the torture of an arab kid made as many people uncomfortable

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hundreds of people wearing poppies while standing in line to hear a white supremacist speak toronto 2018

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me visiting my friends after the vaccine

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7 years

While you sip this propaganda, know that thousands of undocumented people are locked in Canadian jails today.

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The Canadian Press News

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Here's Canadian Mounties greeting refugees from Somalia who walked across the border into Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS photo by Paul Chiasson

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the RCMP in new brunswick have killed again I know many of us are tired, but we have to use whatever means we can to respond to this endless cycle of police violence. they're not going to stop until we stop them love and rage to the family, friends and community of rodney levi

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Ethan Cox

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At around 8 p.m. Atlantic time RCMP officers in Red Bank, New Brunswick shot and killed a Mi’kmaq man, identified by friends on social media as Rodney Levi. According to the police account he was tased repeatedly and then shot. Quebec’s BEI to investigate.

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I strongly support the immediate release of journalists Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano at the same time, I'm uneasy with "press freedom" narratives. do journalists who breach an injunction have more right to be free from arrest than the people defending the land?

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okay children open your books, today we're gonna learn about general strikes

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4 years

notice that @marksaunderstps is kneeling at the exact spot where black lives matter toronto stopped the parade four years ago. he didn't kneel back then. instead he and his police force mobilized white rage against black queer and trans demonstrators. I'm fucking disgusted

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pOliCe aRe ShOrT sTaFfEd

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Doug Johnson Hatlem

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A resident was in this tent 30 seconds ago; horrific violence

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people are so angry that police are allowing demonstrations outside hospitals when we say cops are harmful and we must abolish them, people think we're going too far the alternative is to pay the cops to do whatever they want, and watch in helpless frustration

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outrage over khadr settlement reminds me of reconciliation with indigenous peeps—canadians are shocked that our violence has consequences

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4 years

cameras can capture police brutality but they don't prevent it. we don't need new ways to fund policing, we need to abolish police and use their budgets to support people

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mark saunders' 2019 salary was $414,954, a 20% raise from the year before. he's one of the highest paid public officials in the country it's not worth it. none of this is worth it. that money should be helping people struggling to survive in this city. let them all resign

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yesterday I met a 60-something year old black man who's been dealing with years of discrimination at work. I asked for any paperwork I could review to help him tell his story it regularly blows my mind how black people become archivists for our own survival

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bUt ThE cOpS sAid

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@DesmondCole @Crommunist 4 of my son’s friends and one of their dads already stopped by Ottawa police, on their way to essential work. All racialized Canadians. Need to rescind this awful order now.

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4 years

bro you're wayyyy too comfortable talking to kayla grey like this

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5 years

wow so many people are sharing this story about donald brashear without realizing the photo is of georges laraque! imagining someone in at postmedia doing a search for "black hockey player" like yeah that must be him lmaooo @nationalpost please explain how this happened

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political parties didn't stand against legislated hate in québec, the media platformed a white supremacist who had no popular support, and we shrugged at trudeau's caricatures of black people elections are particularly tough reminders of our realities, love to all my peeps 💙

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body camera footage of police killing Makiyah Bryant is already public. the false promise that a camera would control officers' behaviour is forgotten. now people just want to see how they killed her

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3 years

how many tiny shelters has the city of Toronto destroyed?

@JohnTory

John Tory

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I'll be on @CP24 this morning at 8:15 answering your questions and talking about the City’s response to #COVID19 . Tune in.

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too many threatening white people have gotten too close to Jagmeet Singh: a woman at his candidacy event, a man who told him to cut off his beard, and now someone stalking him near parliament "Singh could kick his ass" is a dangerous, reckless response to these repeated threats

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I don't know how we can use this moment to change the cruel direction this city's been headed in for the last 12+ years, but hopefully this is an opportunity let's turn the page The Ford/Tory reign of terror and fight for a better Toronto!

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Negro Frolics

4 years

. @notanotherblk is holding space in front of toronto police hq (40 college street) until 6 PM to demand police abolition and the prioritizing of black safety and care. if you can come thru, bring a sign, bring chalk, bring your voice

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@DesmondCole

Negro Frolics

4 years

#DefundThePolice live at police HQ. we don't want body cameras, we've seen enough violence. defund, abolish, and reinvest in our communities

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@DesmondCole

Negro Frolics

3 years

we're going to defund the toronto police

@wendygillis

Wendy Gillis

3 years

NEW: Plainclothes Toronto Det. Chris Hutchings grabbed and held a man by the neck for 30 seconds during a 2019 arrest on a TTC bus, then rested his foot on the man’s back as he lay handcuffed, newly released video evidence shows.

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Negro Frolics

3 years

Regis Korchinski-Paquet say her name

@jamesramertps

Retired Chief James Ramer

3 years

On this day, the @TorontoPolice sends its condolences to our many communities who continue to mourn the murder of George Floyd.

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@DesmondCole

Negro Frolics

4 years

your fare inspection scam is anti-Black, cancel it

@JohnTory

John Tory

4 years

Anti-Black racism is absolutely unacceptable. I condemn the recent acts of hatred we have seen on the TTC and at construction sites. I am sorry the woman on the TTC and the workers on the construction sites experienced these despicable acts of racism.

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@DesmondCole

Negro Frolics

4 years

canadian mainstream television has rarely trusted black people to give our own opinions unfiltered, unedited, without a reporter. this privilege has been reserved for angry, racist, white male grandpa types as these dudes fade, spaces for solo TV commentary fade with them

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@DesmondCole

Negro Frolics

5 years

trudeau is publicizing his efforts to personally apologize to jagmeet singh for his racism. this puts the burden on singh to forgive him. jagmeet has to appear gracious or the focus shifts to him this too is racist violence. resign justin, your apologies are not for us

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@DesmondCole

Negro Frolics

4 years

joe, one billion dollars of the budget you voted for this year went to the toronto police. if you want to address black people living in poverty, defund the police force and give us the money

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Joe Cressy

4 years

Anti-black racism is a public health issue: Black Torontonians are twice as likely to live in poverty. 44% of Black children live in poverty, compared to 15% of non-racialized kids. Black women earn 57 cents for every dollar a non-racialized man earns

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@DesmondCole

Negro Frolics

4 years

this verdict shows how difficult it is for Black people to get fair decisions through the courts. they can't provide justice for us. the abolition of police AND our court systems will allow us to build systems of true accountability I know this hurts--let's hold each other today

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@DesmondCole

Negro Frolics

2 years

the police are not the surgeons many people are pretending they can be. they don't intervene in public demonstrations with consideration and fairness. they either dominate and destroy, or they sit back and watch. abolishing police means giving up the fantasy they will ever change

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Negro Frolics

3 years

to serve and protect themselves

@CBCToronto

CBC Toronto

3 years

3 police officers who fired guns during standoff that killed baby still haven't talked to SIU

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Negro Frolics

7 years

bombing a country while refusing to accept its refugees

@PeterAlexander

Peter Alexander

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7 years

BREAKING: US launches 50+ Tomahawk cruise missiles against military airfield in Syria near Homs, base that launched chemical weapons attack

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