Our response to this copaganda should always be the same: how will locking someone in a cell, subjecting them to increased violence and isolation, and further undermining their access to employment and housing when they're released help to prevent harm from reoccurring?

It's the same as his new data-free pet project around making bail even harder to get. The entire issue of "repeat offenders" is clear evidence that criminalization doesn't address the fundamental issues contributing to harms. Instead, it often makes them even worse.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Here's our blog post from June 2024 about the actual activities of the "Community Safety Team"

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"the knives were found in a location that fit with WO1’s evidence that she moved them away when the AP was on the ground. While this evidence does not directly confirm her evidence on this point, it is some evidence tending to support that the AP ran at them, as WO1 said."

Really convincing....

The report also mentions that after shooting Afolabi three times, they handcuffed him and "began to check him for injuries."

They handcuffed him. After shooting him.

The scene presented in the ASIRT report doesn't line up. The first shot (marker 1) was fired when Afolabi was at least 15 ft away (marker 5). The knives were found on the other side of the unit (marker 7). The partner claims she "moved the knives away."

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More Security guards wouldn't have helped ANY of these situations. Any actual obvious preventative measures have been ignored, as has the Library union and community groups desperately calling for the Community Connections space in the lobby to be reopened (closed due to being... too successful?)

Gillingham, for his part, remains unapologetic. Just incredible the way he can jump to policing as a solution after one death in the library, but we have to withhold judgement and blame with this one.

You want to prevent situations like what these commenters are claiming? Stop pretending that ever-more violence and punishment will change anything - and provide people the things they need to survive.

Policing and jailing only worsens safety for everyone. It further destroys people's access to housing, employment and social supports necessary to survive. It's a never-ending cycle of violence that exclusively benefits cops and their budgets/salaries.

This is what the WPS does with a $350 million a year budget: viciously attack poor Indigenous people trying to survive. The number of cops who responded to this were alone worth more than $1 million a year in salary. That's money directly stolen from our communities.

Defund and abolish the WPS.

This was all for what looked to be no more than $50 worth of allegedly stolen food.

You can see in the video that he was complying with cop orders and not resisting arrest. He also repeatedly requested that the arrest be videoed.