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RSS FeedsPride Toronto says uniformed police officers will be able to march in 2019 parade, pending application
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

 
 

16 october 2018 18:28:18

 
Pride Toronto says uniformed police officers will be able to march in 2019 parade, pending application
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


Pride Toronto has announced that Toronto police officers will be permitted to march in the parade in uniform next summer after visible police presence was banned from the 2018 and 2017 festivities. The organization, which runs the annual summer parade and events to celebrate the LGBTQ2S community, put out a written statement Tuesday clarifying that if Toronto police apply to be a part of the 2019 parade, they will be reviewed the same as any other organization and allowed item. This is a controversial change from the past two years, when uniformed officers were banned from marching in the parade due to deep tensions between the queer community and the police force.“2017’s Pride Parade was the first year since 2000 that the Toronto Police had not marched in uniform,” Pride Toronto’s statement reads. “It was a complex decision that sparked an even more complex conversation about inclusion, representation, race, social justice, and safety.”The statement doesn’t mention Black Lives Matter Toronto, but it was their actions in 2016 that brought about the question of whether police should be marching in a parade dedicated to a community that many queer people—particularly queer people of colour—feel police have failed. During the 2016 parade, representatives of BLM Toronto hosted a sit-in, bringing the parade to a temporary halt until Pride Toronto executives promised to hear their demands—one of which was the removal of police floats from future parades. Subsequently, the 2017 parade went forward without police vehicles or uniformed officers taking part. But discussions over whether police would be allowed back in 2018 crumbled last January, a month after police reassured the public that they had no evidence of a serial killer being active in the Gay Village, 66-year-old Bruce McArthur was arrested. He has since been charged with eight counts of first-degree murder in connection to the disappearances of sever ...


 
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