Le vrai racisme : profondément ancré dans le ROC
19 décembre 2015
Autre mission pour Trudeau : expurgé le racisme bien ancré à la GRC :
Without accountability, how will the RCMP ever expunge racism?
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Bob Paulson made a refreshingly open admission while addressing an Assembly of First Nations meeting last week. Responding to a charge from Grand Chief Doug Kelly of the Sto:lo Tribal Council in British Columbia that “some of the worst racists carry a gun and they carry a badge authorized by you,” Commissioner Paulson said: “I understand that there are racists in my police force. I don’t want them to be in my police force.”
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The message to the chiefs last week, in essence, was that complaints systems exist, and that indigenous people confronting racism and abuse by police forces should trust him and trust the system with their complaints.
That is a lot to ask - especially given his past defensive response to reports of racism and abusive policing of indigenous women and girls. In February 2013, Human Rights Watch released a report documenting RCMP mistreatment of indigenous woman and girls in northern British Columbia, including excessive use of force, physical assault, rape, and other sexual violence. In the week following the release, Commissioner Paulson, sent an e-mail to his force about the report in which he told officers, “My message to you today is – don’t worry about it, I’ve got your back.”
In the same e-mail, Mr. Paulson took issue with the Human Rights Watch refusal to turn over to the RCMP for its investigation the names and specific details of the allegations because of concerns for the security of victims and witnesses. Then, as now, the mechanisms available to investigate charges of police misconduct were patchwork and flawed, and many of the indigenous women we spoke with feared that using them could expose them to further abuse.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/without-accountability-how-will-the-rcmp-ever-expunge-racism/article27845022/
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JCPomerleau
