Anger grows over an Ottawa trustee whose ‘park patrol’ snared a Black teen shooting hoops - News Summed Up

Anger grows over an Ottawa trustee whose ‘park patrol’ snared a Black teen shooting hoops


Since then, a petition to have trustee Donna Blackburn removed from the board of trustees has garnered more than 3,500 signatures. Blackburn’s lawyer said she had asked the trustee not to comment to the media given the board’s investigation. When Kedroe went home, he said his son asked him, “What is Innis Road?” Kedroe told him it was a detention centre nearby. His son told him, “A lady came out of nowhere and started telling me I couldn’t play. “More importantly, I cannot allow trustee Blackburn to negatively affect another member of our community, another person of colour.


Source: thestar April 30, 2020 23:09 UTC



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