What is this protest about?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhfh8P0FomI
It happened on October 02, 2009. The student and his supporters claim that he was "arrested for no reason". They will protest today the presence of police in Toronto high schools. It appears that the protest is drawing the attention of students from other schools and Toronto Police Accountability Coalition (www.tpac.ca), that will be represented by its member John Sewell. Josh Matlow, St.Paul's TDSB trustee is concerned about the safety of students during the protest. There is not enough space around the school to accommodate the protesters, he says in his message on Facebook.
The history of school shootings in Canada:
May 28, 1975: At Brampton's Centennial Secondary School, 16-year-old student Michael Slobodian kills a teacher, fatally wounds another student and injures 13 others before killing himself. Slobodian is the first recorded high-school killer in the country
Oct. 27, 1975: Robert Poulin, 18, kills one student, injures 4 at Ottawa's St. Pius X High School, then kills himself.
October 1978: A 17-year-old student shoots a 16-year-old to death at Sturgeon Creek Regional Secondary School in Winnipeg, allegedly for ridiculing the rock group Kiss. He is found not guilty of first-degree murder by reason of insanity.
Dec. 6, 1989: Canada's worst school shooting occurs when Marc Lepine, 25, shoots 14 women dead at Montreal's L'Ecole Polytechnique before killing himself.
Feb. 26, 1990: A jilted 17-year-old shoots 3 other teenagers, including his ex-girlfriend, at General Brock High School in Burlington, Ont. All three survive.
August 24, 1992: Concordia University mechanical engineering professor Valery Fabrikant fatally shot four of his colleagues, including the chair of the department, after repeatedly being denied tenure.
June, 1993: A teenager is wounded outside Gladstone Secondary School in Vancouver in a drive-by shooting.
Oct. 20, 1994: Two guidance counsellors who warned a mature student at Brockton High School in Toronto about his performance were shot and wounded. Phu Cuong Ta, 27, was charged with two counts of attempted murder. He is serving a 20-year jail sentence.
April 28,1999: A 17 year old student is shot dead and another wounded at W.R. Myers High School in Taber, Alberta by a 14 year old boy. This was the first fatal high school shooting in Canada in 20 years.
Feb. 8, 1999: A man fires a shot at Woodland Elementary School in Verdun, Que., after a woman in an adjacent adult education centre said she had been threatened by another student. No one was injured.
Sept. 27, 1999: Alvin Brown, 23, was shot and seriously wounded outside Shoreham Public School, near Steeles Ave. W. and Jane St. in Toronto, during a confrontation. Although many students saw the shooting, none were directly involved.
April 27, 1998: A 15-year-old boy fires two shots from a pellet gun into the pool area at Harbord Collegiate, near Bathurst and Bloor Sts. A teacher and a lifeguard were hit.
Feb. 5, 2000: Dwayne Williams, 20, is shot in the back and leg at a community talent show at Scarborough's Lester B. Pearson Collegiate.
Nov. 2005: A Grade 12 student at Chinguacousy Secondary School in Brampton is shot while sitting in his car in the school's parking lot. Police say the 18-year-old is recovering in hospital.
Sept 13, 2006: Kimveer Gill opens fire at Dawson College in Montreal, killing one student and injuring 20 before killing himself.
May 23, 2007: 14-year-old Jordan Manners is shot and killed at C.W. Jefferys secondary school in Toronto. The school is locked down with students inside while police searched for the gunman.
2 comments:
The students of the this school are just frusturated it seems due to the policeman at their school and the level of security... this is all because of that stupid youtube video that made the news, if that student infact was doing something he shouldnt have been doing then he had every right to be arrested , i feel from the video the teen was just as police say"playing up to the camera" it seemed completely staged he just wanted attention , at my school we had a hall monitor not an actual cop , its great to see students protesting and banning together , I agree with them that they should have been consulted before the cop was put into their school ,cause they are there far more often then their parents...and they have to live with it.
In total agreement!
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