The #WRPS police board held the first (of two) public input sessions re the police budget on Sept 20th, It was a short meeting with just two delegates but you can see my meeting summary here. The next opportunity to delegate on this issue is Oct. 28th. https://bsky.app/profile/dtkmelissa.bsky.social/post/3l4twn6oe7b2x

ANOTHER LOOK AT FIREWORKS: IS THE CHAOS WORTH IT?

https://communityedition.ca/another-look-at-fireworks-is-the-chaos-worth-it/

#BronteBehling #canadaDay #fireworkSafety #fireworks #JulieWright #MonicaSidel #WaterlooRegionalPoliceService #WRPS

@esvrld I’d love them more if #WRPS didn’t criminalize PoC four times as often as white people. I’d love them more if they weren’t strangling out all local social services with their out of control budget that grows faster than anything else, taking a bigger percentage of our taxes year after year after year. I’m sure your uncle is a great guy but we need to have some frank discussions about policing in North America. We need more police criticism. We need policing reform.

At a few minutes past noon, I came across the scene of a cyclist casualty where an SUV from the Waterloo Regional Police Service had run over the front half of a bicycle. It was on Weber, in the plaza adjacent to the gas station on King. It appeared that it must have happened very recently. There was still medical supplies on the ground but the victim had been moved to the ambulance.

Paramedics were tending to the victim who looked to me to be in their 20s. They were alert and looking pissed off but had blood coming down their forehead. They did not wish to be photographed so I didn’t.

The bike is the kind of junker that you only ride when you have to to get by in life. It’s totally destroyed.

It appears to me from the positioning that the cyclist was riding on the sidewalk, though they could have been turning into the plaza or legally on the street. Wherever they were when they were hit, the cop did not react very quickly! You can see that the rear wheel is completely beyond the sidewalk. They probably went at least a full car length before they were able to stop.

Probably they will still charge the cyclist with unsafe operation or something.

Attached are a bunch of untouched photos straight off my phone. Please get in touch to use them. I have more.

#waterloo #wrps #police #cycling