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Vigil at Main Street Totem Pole

Monday, 1 June 2020 18:28

Members of the Whitehorse community gathered downtown by the totem pole on Main Street in response to the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a 29-year-old Afro-Indigenous Woman from Toronto.

Korchinski-Paquet's death follows a number of recent police killings of Black and Indigenous people across Canada, including three major homicides since April.

Asad Chishti, one of the rally organizers for Whitehorse says "To be Black, Indigenous and/or Racialized in Canada is to be swimming against the current and to be reminded regularly of how disposable your existence is. We need better support systems and deserve the right to keep breathing and living"

News of Regis Korchinski-Pacquet's death arrived less than 48 hours after the news of George Floyd's death, an unarmed Black man from Minnesota.

Thousands of people across Canada and the United States have held protests calling for action regarding Police Brutality and anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism.
 

 

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