The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has awarded $35,000 in damages to a young Black child handcuffed by police at an elementary school in Ontario's Peel region when she was six years old. "I am happy this rather lengthy and difficult chapter is finally over," the child's mother and litigation guardian was quoted as saying in a news release from the Human Rights Legal Support Centre Thursday. - Brenda Bowlby, Human Rights TribunalThe release noted that it was the fourth time the school had called the police about the child that month alone. Speaking to CBC News in 2017, Peel police said the girl had been acting violently, kicking and punching administrators. While the tribunal awarded the monetary damages, including for psychological and trauma counselling, it stopped short of ordering revised training and protocols for officers in schools.

Source: CBC News January 07, 2021 22:18 UTC