RIGHT ABOUT NOW COLIN KAPERNICK (NFL) IS LOOKING PRETTY SMART WHEREAS OUR VERY OWN JUDGE SKARICA & SGT. DORLING ARE LOOKING LIKE IDIOTS ALONG WITH IAN BULMER

George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis. The officer has been charged but to date not convicted. Colin Kapernick refused a few years ago to stand for the U.S. national anthem during pro football games to protest police brutality against blacks. He has since been effectively boycotted and run out of the National Football League. Don't those white team owners also look like a..holes right about now? Judge Toni Skarica presided over a burglary trial in which Waterloo Region Police Officer Dorling was a witness against the suspect. That was the very same fleeing and unarmed suspect that Officer Dorling fired upon six times, hitting him once in the back of the thigh. The province of Ontario had filed multiple criminal charges against officer Dorling including attempted murder and reckless use of a firearm, discharging a firearm with intent etc. I described these events in more detail last Tuesday here in this Blog. The good judge somehow thought it appropriate during the burglary suspect's trial to praise Sgt. Dorling for his bravery and courage in confronting (and shooting) the unarmed, fleeing suspect of a non-violent crime.

Enter stage left an allegedly independent, out-of-town prosecutor by the name of Ian Bulmer. Mr. Bulmer then advised the court and the public that it wasn't fair that some of the same witnesses in the burglary trial (i.e. the defendant, other police officers) would be witnesses in Sgt. Dorling's trial for very serious criminal charges. If that isn't perverse enough then how about Mr. Bulmer quoting Judge Skarica's kind words in court praising Sgt. Dorling for his shooting six times at an unarmed, fleeing suspect of a non-violent crime?

It's crunch time here folks. Waterloo Regional Police have a history of carding people of colour. They have a history of shooting a young male sitting on his front porch (Brybeck Cres.) after calling the police on himself due to mental health issues. They have a history of abusing their own female police officers. They even have a history of abusing handcuffed suspects (Henchmen) inside the police station long ago. Shall we wait until they kill again? Shall we wait until a totally innocent man or woman of any race is killed either by intent or by stray police bullets?

There is a protest march against police brutality tomorrow in Victoria Park in Kitchener. Today's K-W Record unfortunately did not indicate the time.

Do you really want to support a justice system (police, judge, prosecutor) that has at this time in history gone on the record to protect a duly sworn peace officer who thinks that it is just dandy to shoot fleeing suspects in the back? I don't!