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Classifying an act as "hate-motivated" is very much a political decision.
• Currently, TPS has deployed hate unit cops to EVERY SINGLE PALESTINIAN🇵🇸 PROTEST since October¹.
(Probably before then, but they openly admit to this much.)
At least one was there this morning, DESPITE the organizers being JEWISH. I know who they are, because that is my function at protests: watching the cops.
• in the past, Indigenous protesters have had their actions surveilled by various hate crime units from across the country, including the solidarity blockades in 2020, because we all know the real hate is anything that inconveniences white people.
• Taylor McNallie, a Black activist from Calgary, has had "hate-motivated" added to her already ludicrous charges (assault, sexual assault and unlawful confinement), for countering the h̶i̶t̶l̶e̶r̶j̶üg̶e̶n̶d̶ #SaveCanadaFash during one of their cross Canada Hate appearances.
(I really must flesh out that hashtag.)
• Absolutely topping the ludicrous use of "hate-motivated"
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Police apologize for saying anti-Nazi vandalism was 'hate motivated'
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/monument-vandalism-nazi-1.5654169
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#DefundDisarmDismantle #FuckThePolice
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¹ from the PDF available by clicking
❝ Read the letter to Mayor Olivia Chow from the Board's Executive Director in response to City Council Item MM 11.37 - Keeping Toronto Safe from Hate, and learn more about the Toronto Police Service's response to hate crime in Toronto ❞ here;
https://tpsb.ca/toronto-police-services-board