Two incidents, one tragic and one regrettable, are reprised here by 680 News and the CBC. The horrifying ambush of a girl, 5, by technology and chance outside her school in North York when a car apparently left in gear crept on her and pinned her against another vehicle. She has died.
LEAVE IT ALONE
Then, the act of a another child, a girl merely 11. It fit so compellingly into the narrative that there is hatred everywhere for Muslim Canadians. Whatever the truth of that, this young person must now go back to school where other kids, maybe even some Muslim kids, may not be too kind to her. It is deeply sad that this burden will weigh on a child. There is even a suggestion that the police should not have taken the girl’s story at face value. Please don’t do this. Many seasoned cops and journalists found the story and circumstances questionable well before it was said to be false. But no one ought to speculate publicly about the honesty of a child in the red-hot context of racial bias in which we live. Leave it alone.
