A tent without poles.(police abuse of Aboriginal people)(Editorial)

From: Canadian Dimension | Date: March 1, 2005 | Copyright information

In Winnipeg, a city divided along race and class lines like so many others, the two solitudes of white and Aboriginal were recently forced to confront one another after a police officer shot and killed an Aboriginal teenager named Matthew Dumas. The 18-year-old robbery suspect was waving a screwdriver at three heavily armed police officers. By some accounts, he had already been pepper-sprayed.

The incident re-ignited simmering tensions among the Aboriginal community. Nat...

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