A Saskatoon defence lawyer says internal police records show officers are using the city’s bicycle bylaw ‘as a ruse’ to stop and search Indigenous men downtown.
The city’s police force has fought at two levels of court to have those records suppressed, including what a judge said about them in open court.
“Judge Monar Enweani made some very important findings,” Chris Murphy said.
“Upon initial inspection, their records appear to suggest that the vast majority of people who are ticketed under the bylaw are Indigenous and the tickets are primarily issued in the Central District [downtown].”
A quick reminder this is the same PD that did ‘starlight tours’ from 1976 to the early 2000’s resulting in at least 3 freezing deaths.
As always, ACAB.
Oh it didn’t end in early 2000s. Every now and then an Indian turns up froze with no winter clothes 20 miles outside of saskatoon. What happened back then is one tough fucker survived and the media paid attention for a bit so the cops didn’t for a few years.