There have been two separate incidents of police brutality against Black men in Canadian cities. Both men were innocent and mistakenly arrested.

Honest Mistake or Any Black Man Will Do?

 by Calvin Lawrence In recent weeks, there have been violent arrests of two Black men. These were in Toronto and Ottawa, respectively. After the arrests, it was determined that the men were not who the police were looking for. The arrests were cases of mistaken identity. Certainly, the police must

When is Police Use of Force Justified?

 I am a seventh generation Black Canadian. I was also a police officer for 36 years. I have worked in a city, rural, and federal environment. The growth of the Black Lives Matter movement has come out of the lack of information, accountability, and racist behavior by some individual police officers.