Toronto police won’t march in pride parade after botched investigation of gay murder victims
The Toronto Police should not be allowed to march after they ruined their apology for the 1980s bathhouse raids with the raiding of gay cruising areas.
and especially not after LGBTQ Toronto Police employees began to inappropriately speak out on municipal budgets offering funding to that Pride Parade in workplace culture that is no better than the RCMP, which has settled the class action against women while the Canada Military has not.
Or any police force, municipal, provincial or federal.
The Pride Parade brings together the local community and international tourism.
The Police and their Military Grade vehicles and gear have no place in a Pride Parade.
even if the feet in the boots are LGBTQ.
I have marched in the Vancouver Pride Parade as a grassroots activist when it was a protest parade and also as a Federal Government Employee when it became a celebration parade.
in 2018. it’ protest again.
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Do you truly think that many of those on the force in the 80s are still there with their narrow-minded attitudes? Times change. People change. An incident that occurred 30+ years ago should not be held over the heads of those currently serving.
the Toronto Police Apologized for past actions
and then followed up by repeating them, under the current Chief of Police.
and, as for your question, corporate workplace change slower than employee turn over.
and also yes, given 30 to 35, sometimes 40 years as a career length.
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So you are saying that any LBQT member of that police force should not be allowed to march in the Pride Parade? Oh and what about any other corporate sponsor of the Parade. They shouldn’t be allowed to march either.
For context of the experience that informed my post:
“I have marched in the Vancouver Pride Parade as a grassroots activist when it was a protest parade and also as a Federal Government Employee when it became a celebration parade.”
In reply to your post JDS:
In 2018, yes I am saying that no police marching units should be in LGBTQ parades, regardless of the demographics of the cops when off duty.
Corporations, Unions, and Politicians are a different issue, these are groups that want our dollars or our votes.
Established Pride Parades are big tourist draws and business booms, with actual LGBTQ community groups forming the core of the parade.
The Police do not sponsor the parade. they do provide street security, hired as do comparable other events; but also because of the usual counter anti parade that attracts far fewer people, but in the weeks after Pride Parades or Take Back the Night Marches, “random stranger assaults” spike.
similar to the way stranger rapes increase post extreme or big sports events.
the Police are one of the groups that these parades used to protest.
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