It had to happen. The head of the police union says that Premier Wynne is helping the Black Lives Matter group “drive a wedge” between police and the public when she says she believes there is systemic anti-black racism. The Premier made this remark under what seems to have been a lot of angry pressure yesterday in an impromptu but very public meeting outside the Legislature. It is not unreasonable to say the demonstrators more or less put the words in Ms. Wynne’s mouth as they attacked her verbally for not saying the words “anti-black racism”.
WHAT THE PREMIER SAID
At first, the Premier spoke of her concern about “all racism” but that was not enough for the demonstrators Now the union president Mike McCormack is saying the Premier played into the hands of the demonstrators. “The protest was all about policing and the (Special Investigations Unit) and how investigations are done,” McCormack said. “So for her to make those comments, you could reasonably draw conclusions she was talking about policing.” You can hear the Premier seem to change her stand a bit in the CBC video seen in the post Premier Wynne speaks with Black Lives Matter crowd
ASKS FOR STRENGTH NOT TO KILL “WHITE FOLKS”
In the meantime a tweet from a principal organizer of Black Lives Matter seems to cast doubt on her judgement as a public figure. On Feb. 9, 2016, Yusra Khogali tweeted “Plz Allah give me strength to not cuss/kill these men and white folks out here today. Plz plz plz.” The threatening nature and demanding anger of this group is so far unaddressed by public officials at any level. The post was discovered by a Newstalk 1010 reporter.
