Dafonte Miller case another shocking wake-up call for police reform

The Liberals need to quit fiddling at the edges and finally do something about institutionalized racial injustice and police violence, starting with the RCMP and the implementation of effective accountability.

Commissioner Brenda Lucki’s comment to Members of Parliament that her officers are feeling picked on and ‘demoralized’ by the ‘anti-police narrative’ belies all her talk about reform, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

July 1, 2020

OTTAWA—It took Ontario Superior Court Justice Joseph Di Luca four-and-a-half hours’ worth of rationalization to conclude in his judgment that the white off-duty cop and his brother who beat up Dafonte Miller, who lost an eye as a result, didn’t commit much in the way of crimes. The judge said...

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