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Article content As a child, I absorbed pleasant images of police officers. On my favourite childhood TV shows and in books, they were always catching the bad guys. The police themselves were never shown to BE the bad guys. If you believed this “protect and serve” image of the police, lucky you. This is not, however, how a huge swath of people in Ottawa have come to see their police service in recent months, due to countless negative experiences with the force. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Dorimain: Defunding Ottawa police would better serve racialized groups Back to video ....
Article content An Ottawa police officer says it’s unfair for people to condemn him as a racist simply for discussing race in an online video that is now the subject of an internal police probe. “It’s crazy to say that because a police officer was talking about race, that it’s racist,” Const. Paul Heffler, a 34-year veteran of the service, said in an interview Friday. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Ottawa police officer defends himself against allegations of racism Back to video “I’m embarrassed by the way it has been painted, but I’m not embarrassed by what I said. Because I know what we were saying was a simple, objective analysis of something.” ....
Posted: Dec 11, 2020 11:37 AM ET | Last Updated: December 11, 2020 During the two-day demonstration last month, protesters erected tents at the intersection of Laurier Avenue W. and Nicholas Street, near the University of Ottawa campus.(Francis Ferland/CBC) Charges against 12 people arrested during a demonstration in support of Black and Indigenous lives last month have been stayed. The two-day protest involved several advocacy groups including the Justice for Abdirahman coalition. Dozens of people blocked the intersection of Laurier Avenue W. and Nicholas Street, encircling the area with caution tape and erecting tents. Police dispersed the demonstration around 3:30 a.m. on Nov. 21, removing protesters and charging 12 with mischief to property. That caused an uproar among the protesters, as well as several city councillors the protesters had been set to meet with members of the police services board later that day. ....