The gunman in #Canada’s worst mass shooting was a white man. Most mass shooters are.
Police in white supremacist countries downplay the violence of white men.
Esp when it’s directed against marginalized women such as indigenous women and sex workers 👉🏽 google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.…
Police in white supremacist countries downplay the violence of white men.
Esp when it’s directed against marginalized women such as indigenous women and sex workers 👉🏽 google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.…
(cw: vaw) Robert Pickton, one of the most notorious serial killers in history. He targeted mostly sex workers and Indigenous women, some dealing with addictions or mental health issues, in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. He admitted to butchering 49 women and feeding them to pigs.
When mothers, fathers or other relatives would go to Vancouver police to report their loved one missing, they were dismissed.
"And their response invariably would be: 'Well, we don't have time to look for hookers. Your daughter is a drug addict. What do you expect us to do?“
"And their response invariably would be: 'Well, we don't have time to look for hookers. Your daughter is a drug addict. What do you expect us to do?“
Robert Pickton was convicted on six counts of second-degree murder but is suspected of killing dozens of women who went missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Police were criticized for not taking the cases seriously because many of the missing were sex workers or addicts. 
This too is a PANDEMIC: Indigenous women and girls make up about 4% of the total female population of #Canada but 16% of all female homicides. nytimes.com/2019/05/30/wor…
Some 1,181 Indigenous women were killed or went missing across the country between 1980 and 2012, according to a 2014 report by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
That number has since risen. #Femicide
That number has since risen. #Femicide
