Montreal couple says they were abused, fined by police for 'walking while black' 22 Avril 2018A young couple who say they were the victims of police violence for “walking while black” are calling on the mayors of Montreal and Plateau-Mont-Rohttp://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/couple-fined-444-each-for-talking-lou… Lire la suite
'Why did my mom and brother have to die?' 2 years, no answers in police-involved shooting 22 Avril 2018Two years after a 73-year-old woman and her 39-year-old son were killed during a police standoff in northwestern B.C, there are still no answers ashttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/shirley-jovan-williams-granisle-s… Lire la suite
Churches make a drastic pledge in the name of social justice: To stop calling the police 22 Avril 2018First Congregational Church of Oakland shares a neighborhood with many homeless people who often come to the church in times of mental health crisehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/04/19/churches-make-a-… Lire la suite
Charges Sought in Eric Garner’s Death, but Justice Officials Have Doubts 22 Avril 2018WASHINGTON — Federal civil rights prosecutors have recommended charges against a New York police officer in the 2014 death of Eric Garner, three cuhttps://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/us/politics/eric-garner-charges-recommende… Lire la suite
Incident raciste dans un Starbucks: le chef de la police s'excuse 20 Avril 2018Le chef de la police de Philadelphie a présenté ses excuses jeudi, une semaine après l'arrestation de deux jeunes Noirs dans un café Starbucks qui http://www.lapresse.ca/international/etats-unis/201804/19/01-5161746-incident-ra… Lire la suite
B.C. police watchdog to adopt recommendations from inquest into shooting of mentally ill man 20 Avril 2018B.C.'s civilian police watchdog agency said Wednesday it will accept recommendations from a public inquest into the shooting death of a mentally ilhttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-police-watchdog-to-adopt-reco… Lire la suite
Two Burnaby police-shooting files still open more than three years later 20 Avril 2018B.C.’s police watchdog is apologizing for taking more than three years to report on two police shootings in Burnaby in March 2015 but says it will http://www.burnabynow.com/news/two-burnaby-police-shooting-files-still-open-more… Lire la suite
Long-secret watchdog report warned of 'undue pressure' from CSIS on detainees 20 Avril 2018Newly disclosed documents show a top secret federal report — kept under wraps for over a decade — criticized Canada's spy agency for shortcomings ahttps://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/04/19/news/long-secret-watchdog-report-war… Lire la suite
Printemps érable : l'agent de la SQ Denis Burelle suspendu 35 jours 18 Avril 2018Blâmé pour l'utilisation imprudente de son arme et pour avoir blessé gravement des manifestants à Victoriaville en 2012, le policier de la Sûreté dhttps://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1095547/printemps-erable-agent-denis-burell… Lire la suite
Il faut retirer les armes d’impact à projectiles du SPVM 18 Avril 2018On s’est croisés dernièrement, à l’hôtel de ville de Montréal, lors de la dernière commission sur la sécurité publique le 10 avril.https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/libre-opinion/525377/il-faut-retirer-les-armes-… Lire la suite
Policiers du SPVQ dans le pétrin 05 Juillet 2017(Québec) La police de Québec traverse une période trouble.http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/justice-et-faits-divers/201707/02/01-5112661-po… Lire la suite
Calming approach is the key to de-escalating police interventions 03 Juillet 2017When police respond to calls for individuals in the throes of severe mental distress, there is typically no advance warning, the outcome comes quichttp://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/calming-touch-the-key-to-de-escalatin… Lire la suite
Plus de 600 morts en cinq mois en Colombie-Britannique 03 Juillet 2017Les mois se suivent et se ressemblent en Colombie-Britannique où, pour un septième mois consécutif, plus de 100 personnes sont mortes d’une surdosehttp://www.journaldemontreal.com/2017/07/02/plus-de-600-morts-en-cinq-mois-en-co… Lire la suite
RCMP wrong in finding man shot himself: B.C.’s independent police watchdog 03 Juillet 2017British Columbia’s Independent Investigations Office says RCMP in Port Coquitlam incorrectly reported that a distraught man may have taken his own https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/rcmp-wrong-in-finding-man-… Lire la suite
B.C. Coroners Service information blackout on police-involved deaths raises red flags for accountability 03 Juillet 2017Historically, any time that somebody in B.C. dies during an interaction with police or in the custody of law enforcement or a B.C.http://www.straight.com/news/926101/bc-coroners-service-information-blackout-pol… Lire la suite
Un motard poursuit le SPVM pour 6,5 M$ 03 Juillet 2017Une « magouille » de l’ex-enquêteur Benoit Roberge pour résoudre le meurtre d’un Hells Angel notoire risque de coûter très cher au SPVM et à la Vilhttp://www.journaldemontreal.com/2017/06/30/lex-motard-de-6-millions Lire la suite
Implicit bias and anti-black racism the core of Andrew Loku inquest findings 03 Juillet 2017The jury that crafted the 39 recommendations coming out of the inquest into the police shooting death of Andrew Loku in 2015 made it clear that rachttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/implicit-bias-and-anti-black-racism-the-co… Lire la suite
Number of fatal shootings by U.S. police in 2017 set to exceed 1,000 03 Juillet 2017July 1 (Reuters) – Police officers across the United States shot 492 people dead in the first half of 2017, on track to approach 1,000 such incidenhttp://globalnews.ca/news/3570589/police-shootings-in-2017-numbers/ Lire la suite
Does military equipment lead police officers to be more violent? We did the research. 03 Juillet 2017On April 29, Officer Roy Oliver of the Balch Springs Police Department in Texas shot and killed Jordan Edwards, who was a passenger in a friend’s chttps://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/30/does-milit… Lire la suite
Des membres de Black Lives Matter s'emparent d'une scène du FIJM 02 Juillet 2017Des manifestants du groupe Black Lives Matter ont brièvement occupé la scène Rio Tinto du Festival international de jazz de Montréal (FIJM) dimahttp://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1043148/black-lives-matter-scene-festival-ja… Lire la suite