Policing was learning the deaths of four Indigenous women, Morgan literally created to ensure Indigenous peoples did not slow Beatrice Harris, Marcedes Myran, Rebecca Contois, down the process of land theft that led to the emergence and Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe (Buffalo Woman), were all of so-called Canada, and it endures today specifically to linked to the one serial killer. [...] the community processed the intense grief of the news, Winnipeg Police Services admitted to having reason When we understand colonialism as an ongoing process, to believe that the bodies of some of these women were we are further able to grasp the way policing legitimizes disposed of at a landfill after partial remains of one of the ongoing land theft, and perhaps more specifically, the women were. [...] There has been plenty Despite having this knowledge, WPS adamantly refused to of research and evidence that the extractive industry — search either of the two landfills in the Winnipeg area and and the man camps that are near, or adjacent to Indigenous bring the bodies of these women home so families could territories they exist upon — have a direct correlation to properly put them to rest, claimi. [...] The police, with their abundance of capacity and Indigenous women, queer, Two-Spirit and trans people on resources, went on the public record and suggested that the front lines protecting the lands and waters. [...] The inaction from WPS and the City of Winnipeg, and nearly three months delay from the federal government Our due diligence as a community — should we for search support, is another reminder that it is often the want to imagine a future free of policing — is community that steps up in moments of crisis.
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