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Terrifying. What is the police department's motive for the killings? It's left out in the article.

by engineer_22 4y ago

everyone 4y ago
I guess part of systematic ethnic cleansing by the government in general?
- cwillu 4y ago
  No, the systemic cleansing party didn't hold onto their seat very long. This is “merely” the organic actions of individuals, when those individuals are a substantial portion of the population. The racist undercurrents in this city are _strong_.
  - ygjb 4y ago
    s/city/country Starlight Tours have been documented in many major cities in Canada, with actual evidence and related cases in Saskatoon, Montreal, and Winnipeg. It is also widely suspected that it is still a practice in some communities.
clsec 4y ago
Probably getting rid of the alcoholics that they have to deal with on a daily basis. It's not right, but cops are cops.
- shakezula 4y ago
  That's a complete non-sequitur. Assuming they're alcoholics is pretty racist and, even if they are, doesn't even begin to justify these actions by police.
  - cwillu 4y ago
    Of course it doesn't justify it. But it's absolutely the rationale they tell themselves.
  - cwillu 4y ago
    Worth noting from a cold climate survival perspective that alcohol and a long walk in the cold is a death sentence. Your body will normally constrict bloodflow to the extremities, significantly reducing heat loss. Alcohol counteracts that. It makes you feel warm, in the same way that the final stages of hypothermia make you feel warm.
    - giraffe_lady 4y ago
      Yes I always wonder how commonly known this interaction is and how easily lethal. Where I grew up there was still a lot of stigma against openly committing suicide. But a handful of our fathers and grandfathers had "gone hunting" at night in january with a bottle of whiskey and predictable outcomes. If it's reliable and deniable enough for suicide it'll work fine for police murder too.
shakezula 4y ago
Racism. It's racism plain, simple, and uncomplicated racism. Police are just the ones with the right opportunities and power to do this stuff and get away with it.
- llip 4y ago
cwillu 4y ago
Look up “Jim Pankiw” to get a taste of the local flavour of rhetoric.
jamal-kumar 4y ago
The motive is the same general motive you see in genocide of indigenous people around the world - from what China does to Tibetans and Uyghurs, to Canada's history of rounding up kids to put them in extremely abusive schools who freely said stuff about how they beat the indian out of the child, it's all just the way people behave when they're colonizing others. The motive is only recently seeing any organized challenge to this, it's pretty wild to look at comment sections on things and seeing the amount of genocide denial out there on this particular topic. If they exhume those alleged unmarked graves with archaeologists and find actual children's remains traceable to the nearby schools, then these people saying they could be anything have a lot of words to eat.

Terrifying. What is the police department's motive for the killings? It's left out in the article.

everyone 4y ago

I guess part of systematic ethnic cleansing by the government in general?

cwillu 4y ago
No, the systemic cleansing party didn't hold onto their seat very long. This is “merely” the organic actions of individuals, when those individuals are a substantial portion of the population. The racist undercurrents in this city are _strong_.
- ygjb 4y ago
  s/city/country Starlight Tours have been documented in many major cities in Canada, with actual evidence and related cases in Saskatoon, Montreal, and Winnipeg. It is also widely suspected that it is still a practice in some communities.

clsec 4y ago

Probably getting rid of the alcoholics that they have to deal with on a daily basis. It's not right, but cops are cops.

shakezula 4y ago
That's a complete non-sequitur. Assuming they're alcoholics is pretty racist and, even if they are, doesn't even begin to justify these actions by police.
- cwillu 4y ago
  Of course it doesn't justify it. But it's absolutely the rationale they tell themselves.
- cwillu 4y ago
  Worth noting from a cold climate survival perspective that alcohol and a long walk in the cold is a death sentence. Your body will normally constrict bloodflow to the extremities, significantly reducing heat loss. Alcohol counteracts that. It makes you feel warm, in the same way that the final stages of hypothermia make you feel warm.
  - giraffe_lady 4y ago
    Yes I always wonder how commonly known this interaction is and how easily lethal. Where I grew up there was still a lot of stigma against openly committing suicide. But a handful of our fathers and grandfathers had "gone hunting" at night in january with a bottle of whiskey and predictable outcomes. If it's reliable and deniable enough for suicide it'll work fine for police murder too.

shakezula 4y ago

Racism. It's racism plain, simple, and uncomplicated racism. Police are just the ones with the right opportunities and power to do this stuff and get away with it.

llip 4y ago

cwillu 4y ago

Look up “Jim Pankiw” to get a taste of the local flavour of rhetoric.

jamal-kumar 4y ago

The motive is the same general motive you see in genocide of indigenous people around the world - from what China does to Tibetans and Uyghurs, to Canada's history of rounding up kids to put them in extremely abusive schools who freely said stuff about how they beat the indian out of the child, it's all just the way people behave when they're colonizing others. The motive is only recently seeing any organized challenge to this, it's pretty wild to look at comment sections on things and seeing the amount of genocide denial out there on this particular topic. If they exhume those alleged unmarked graves with archaeologists and find actual children's remains traceable to the nearby schools, then these people saying they could be anything have a lot of words to eat.