CHIEF MIZUNO JOINS PROTEST
Black Lives Matter draws hundreds
Windsor Police Service Chief Pam Mizuno addressed a crowd Sunday, as protests following the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer continued locally for the third weekend in a row.
“Windsor Police Service is committed to the people we work for and with, objectively, passionately and with integrity,” Mizuno told the crowd while wearing a face mask in observance of COVID-19 social distancing precautions.
An estimated 200 people attended the Black Lives Matter protest at the downtown riverfront.
All the Windsor demonstrations have been peaceful.
Demonstrations opposing police brutality and systemic racism have taken place across the United States and in major cities around the world since May 25, when a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes following Floyd’s arrest.
Floyd pleaded for help and repeatedly said “I can’t breathe” before he died.
On June 6, protesters gathered in Windsor for The Walk for Regis ... in memory of Regis Korchinski-paquet, a black-indigenous woman who died May 27 after falling from her 24th floor apartment in the High Park neighbourhood of Toronto.
Police were called to the home by her mother during a domestic dispute.
Ontario’s civilian police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit, is investigating her death, which occurred in the presence of Toronto police.
Korchinski-paquet’s family is pursuing a claim that her death was caused by police.