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  1. DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] ·

    So, I've excerpted from the article things that #Police should be doing! Instead of arresting people and making quotas! Until all that changes (and the corruption in police unions, especially in the US), we need to view most police as #ACAB...

    Bear Clan no more: Why a Thunder Bay safety patrol has turned away from its founding principles of co-operating with police

    When First Nations people in this city took community safety into their own hands, they ended up at odds with local law enforcement and the Winnipeg Bear Clan group that inspired their organization. And on the streets, the struggle still goes on

    "'Some of the terminology that [leader Ivory Tuesday] used, you know, ‘#settler,’ ‘#colonial.' These are very divisive terms in our communities and we’re about reconciliation,' says Mr. Favel, who revoked the Thunder Bay group’s Bear Clan membership in February." [Ummmmm....]

    by Jolene Banning
    Published November 7, 2019

    "In the wake of the Bear Clan’s demise in Thunder Bay, several volunteers have carried on patrolling under the new name, Wiindo Debwe Mosewin. The group is led by Indigenous women and says it welcomes people of all races and nations to patrol with them. (Another community group called the Sleeping Giant Patrol had also formed, but has since been shut down.)

    "Ms. Tuesday says Wiindo Debwe Mosewin decided to offer a space free of #police and #politicians, based on years of mistrust. While out on patrols of the streets, rivers and alleyways at night, the group shares food and stories with the city’s most vulnerable. 'I listen to what they have to say and validate them for what they’ve been through while living here. Mainly I just try to be a friend,' Ms. Tuesday says."

    Read more:
    theglobeandmail.com/canada/art

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/5l1at
    #WiindoDebweMosewinPatrol #WiindoDebweMosewin #WePoliceOurselves #FirstNations

    #police #acab #settler #colonial #politicians #wiindodebwemosewinpatrol
  2. DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] ·

    Came across this story while researching #ThunderBay (where some of my ancestors are from). From 2019.

    Inside the controversy over Thunder Bay’s #Indigenous #CommunityPatrol group

    The #WiindoDebweMosewinPatrol monitors the city for people in distress and posts anonymized stories of racism on social media. Critics say it doesn’t value evidence — but the group insists that it’s after a different kind of truth

    Written by Jon Thompson
    Mar 7, 2019

    THUNDER BAY — "'Darryl' could tell you all about the negative interactions he’s had with the #ThunderBayPolice Service since he moved to the city from Sudbury in 2016. His girlfriend, his cousin, and most of his friends could tell you about interactions of their own. So could his grandfather, who told him that officers had once driven him out of town and left him on the highway to walk home — something known as a '#StarlightTour.'

    "Darryl could tell you, but he won’t tell the police. He never files complaints. As an Indigenous person, he has no expectation that they would take him seriously: the Thunder Bay Police Service and its board, as demonstrated in two recent reports from #Ontario’s police-watchdog organizations, are plagued by #SystemicRacism.

    "Instead, he has been telling his stories to #BearClanThunderBay, now known as the Wiindo Debwe Mosewin Patrol — a group of about 40 volunteers who circuit the streets, waterways, bridges, and woods, looking for people in distress. They don’t demand identification or interrogate him, he says. They offer him hot chocolate, and they listen.

    "'I just feel more comfortable talking to people who understand the issues,' he says. 'Most people are in denial about the whole police situation, but me, personally, I’ve experienced it.'

    "Depending on who you ask, Bear Clan Thunder Bay either found itself or put itself in the middle of the public conversation sparked by the reports. Local politicians — and the group’s parent organization, based in Winnipeg — have accused it of being anti-police, racially divisive, and alarmist. The Thunder Bay chapter, one of dozens across the country, was stripped of its right to use the Bear Clan name."

    Read more:
    tvo.org/article/inside-the-con
    #WePoliceOurselves #ACAB #FirstNations

    #thunderbay #indigenous #communitypatrol #wiindodebwemosewinpatrol #thunderbaypolice #starlighttour