English: This is what happens when police aren't needlessly and overtly antagonistic while receiving inadequate training and surplus army equipment. Signs are laid down as a message and as symbols, not dropped and thrown away while being assaulted or running in an act of self-preservation. Canadian police aren't perfect and we as a nation have a lot to answer and make up for when it comes to racial discrimination.

This isn't an opinion it's fact. But as someone who is black/white mixed race I also want to make clear my appreciation that I don't have to carry the same level of caution, apprehension or outright fear that people of black descent carry when dealing with law enforcement in the U.S. A place where even unborn black children are a target for police. Police who drive into crowds of protestors holding signs. Police who will lift a white protestor to their feet after telling them to move but assault the black protestor sitting beside them. Police who will kneel on the neck of an unarmed man for 8:46 while three others watch and do nothing to stop him. These issues aren't always easy or comfortable to discuss but few of the truly important things in life are always easy to do and it's up to all of us together to work towards these changes even if the end result isn't reached in this or the next generation's lifetime.

Black. Lives. Fucking. Matter.