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Feb 16 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
I was violently detained by police for carrying my sleeping infant daughter into my home w porch lights off. A white neighbour called the police on me for "breaking into my own home". The cops didn't hug me. They had me on the ground, screaming obscenities #WhitePrivilege
The experience of Black, Indigenous and other people of colour and the poor with the police in 🇨🇦 could not be more different from the nauseating displays of affection and support given to the white supremacists holding this country hostage. We have always known this.
People are messaging me that I lied about my experience with the police to get likes. I didn't. This is the lived experience of Black, Indigenous and other people of colour and the poor. Just because you haven't experienced racism personally, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
One only needs to look at the stats on racial profiling by the police #carding or actually talk to #BIPOC persons to know that our experiences with the police could not be more different than how the #FluTruxKlan are being treated. It reflects systemic nature of white supremacy
So to the assholes coming after me now: #1 fuck off and #2 get off your nazi chat groups and spend 5 minutes listening to @DesmondCole who was interrogated 50 times by the cops because he is black. His experience is not unusual cbc.ca/firsthand/epis…

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