Police and emergency dispatchers need to have more faith that crisis workers can deal with mental health calls instead of taking a police-first approach, one advocate says, after several deaths in recent months following encounters with Winnipeg police.
Winnipeg residents put the city's chief police officer in the hot seat during a Sunday discussion on policing Black communities that sometimes became heated, with the recent death of a young Nigerian student looming over the talks.
Femi Ajiboye was among dozens of people that gathered Saturday at the Winnipeg railway station, the starting point for a rally in support of Afolabi Opaso, a 19-year-old international student at the University of Manitoba who was fatally shot by police on New Year's Eve.
Protestors gathered in Winnipeg Saturday to protest the fatal police shooting of a 19-year-old student. Afolabi Opaso was killed during a wellness check on New Year's Eve.
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