After George Floyd: June 2020
Author | Kent Roach |
Pages | 15-24 |
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After George Floyd: June 2020
INTRODUCTION
On May , Minneapolis police ocer Derek Chauvin murdered
GeorgeFloyd by holding his knee on the forty-six-year-old Black man’s neck
for more than eight minutes, including almost two minutes aer Floyd, who
was alleged to have purchased cigarettes with a counterfeit bill, stopped
breathing. All four ocers involved with the arrest were quickly red from
the department and charged with murder. One of the ocers, Derek Chau-
vin, has been convicted of second-degree murder. George Floyd became a
household name and a rallying cry in massive protests. e same cannot be
said about the forty-eight Black men who have died in encounters with the
Canadian police or the eighty-nine Indigenous people who have died in
encounters with the police since .
ere is a smug sense among many Canadians that Canada does not face
the same magnitude of policing or other related problems as does the United
States. e month aer Floyd’s murder, however, should have removed this
sense of complacency. It should have established that Canadian policing
needs to change.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Aer a three-year investigation, British Columbia’s Independent Investiga-
tions Oce (IIO) announced on June that two RCMP ocers should
be charged with excessive use of force and three others with obstruction
of justice in relation to the death of thirty-ve-year-old Dale Culver,
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