So Ontario Minister wears bullet proof vest as required by Police to visit Jane-Finch area.
NDP assume that all criminals in the Jane-Finch area are black - so it must be racist. (Or was it that the bullet proof vest itself is racist, and then police should be banned from using them).
I believe that blacks are not the majority in the Jane-Finch area.
Therefore, the NDP was racist and the Minister was trying to find solutions to crime in general.
It looks like the NDP is auditioning for the job of 3rd party in 2022.
Excuse me?
Really, please stop posting if you are going to make inflammatory nonsense up all the time.
At no time did the NDP make any statement about the ethnic composition of the criminal element in the broader Jane-Finch area.
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In respect of the ethnic composition of the area.
Stats Can divides the area into two, with Finch as the boundary.
Overall, the area would be 27.5% 'black'.
It would be, however, only 21% 'white'.
So, roughly 79% visible minority.
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I have no clue whether the minister is racist.
I am clear that he's an idiot.
He was on a ride along, with 2 veteran officers; in Toronto.
He was not riding w/the ETF, Crowd Control (riot squad) or in a vehicle meant for emergency response.
If the officers encountered a problem, he would be told to stay in the car.
To be clear though, the area is perfectly safe, even by yourself, the vast majority of the time.
That the police offered him the vest is understandable, as its part of their uniform.
That he wore it, is dubious, as he didn't need it.
That he bragged about wearing it is the real problem. That he has a complete failure to understand the optics of such a remark makes him completely and utterly obtuse.
He needn't be racist because he wore the vest, but in understanding how unnecessary it was, and given the area he was viewing, and that that area is overwhelmingly visible minority, the optics problem should be so completely obvious a child wouldn't miss it.
Don't defend stupidity because it comes in blue.
You didn't like it when it was done by people wearing red.
I hate it whatever the political hue in question.