Thread by @thewalrus

In July 2017, Barabara Kentner, a thirty-four-year-old First Nations woman, died from an internal injury after being struck in the abdomen with a trailer hitch. Brayden Bushby is awaiting sentencing for manslaughter. @evaholland covered the trial: thewalrus.ca/looking-for-ju… 1/6

Bushby’s trial was a mirror held up to Canadian society. Staring back was a colonial system of law, its failures to provide justice for Indigenous people, and the way racism operates on a continuum: from contempt and derision to violence and murder. thewalrus.ca/looking-for-ju… 2/6

It may be tempting to view Bushby’s conviction as the start of a pattern. But there is little to celebrate in the bare minimum being achieved: in prosecutors doing their jobs; in a jury finding its way to a verdict that fits the evidence. thewalrus.ca/looking-for-ju… 3/6 #MMIWG

Beverly Jacobs, associate dean of law at @UWindsor, has long advocated for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. “It’s a game,” she says, referring to the theatre of clashing narratives at play in Canadian courtrooms. More here: thewalrus.ca/looking-for-ju… 4/6 #MMIWG

It remains possible—and essential—to tell a different story about the functioning of justice in this country. It starts with education. Not just in law school but from childhood, to uproot harmful narratives about Indigenous people. thewalrus.ca/looking-for-ju… 5/6 #MMIWG #Indigenous

From the June edition of @thewalrus, read @evaholland’s “Justice on Trial” here: thewalrus.ca/looking-for-ju… 6/6