September 6 Toronto The Working […]

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1979-09-06

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September 6 Toronto The Working Group on Police-Minority Relations proposed several motions for endorsement by Toronto City Council. The motions included: rejection of any intermediary between the Police Commission and minority communities, establishment of a Civilian Review Board with its own independent investigators, replacement of the Police Board by a democratically elected committee of metro council members, and the laying of charges against the officers involved in the shooting of Albert Johnson. Although council did not consider these recommendations, on September 18, 1979, it did pass a non-confidence motion in the Metro Police Commission, saying that "it no longer reflects the mentality" of a racially mixed city.

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