On Sunday, tons of people gathered to
commemorate the annual pride parade even after all the tensions growing in
between the Toronto’s police and the LGBTQ community.
Up
to 120 group of people walked along the route of the rainy downtown. There was
no clue of any uniformed officer marching along with them.
At
the start of this year, LGBTQ charged Toronto’s police, of not taking immediate
action against the disappearance of those eight men from the city’s gay
village. It was just till January that a 66year old horticulturist Bruce
McArthur was arrested on the charge of murder of first degree of the eight men.
A
29-year-old nursing student Mike Moris who attended the parade dressed in a
rainbow speedo said that the assertions that were made against the 66 years old
Bruce McArthur showed no effort between the community and the police and it
also certified his aspirations to get into the parade.
He
added that the community
called LGBTQ should get together as a single unit in “difficult situations.”
Conflicts between the police
and the parade started brewing up in 2016 when people of
Black Lives Matter suddenly terminated the parade to present a couple of
demands that included that the uniformed officers, their troops, and orders
should be eliminated from the parade.
This year it is a consecutively second year where the uniformed forces
have been eliminated from the parade. However, to ensure security the police
remain of charge as tons of spectaculars visit the parade.
Many political leaders are supporting it too. One of the leaders Ontario
LDP Leader Andrea Horwath represented the sorrow by recognizing the “poignant”
and “painful” moment encountered by the community after the loss of eight men
victimized by McArthur. She wore a black arm back around her wrist in support
of the grief.
Horwath even said, "There are
still tensions with the police and I believe that dialogue has to continue to
happen and that it will resolve with respect from both sides, but those things
are part of the context of moving us forward as a province and as a city, and
I'm happy to be here and part of that positive revolution."
Her marching alongside with the federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh
reflected how well she understood this cause and how passionate she was about
it. Jagmeet Singh recognized the Pride Parade as, “revolutionary movement to take space for a community that has always
been marginalized."
He added that the parade will always be under consideration as it is a
matter of discussion that is difficult to be gone through such as current
tribulations between the deaths and the police.
He added putting an end to what was happening and said, "Love is love, it truly is, but there
is so much more that needs to be done ... There's been concerns around a trust
that's broken down.”
"The only way we can have good
policing is when there's a trust between the police and the public and that is
something we need to have."
He also mentioned that Howarth's Conservative
counterpart, premier-designate Doug Ford, should have attended the
parade.
Jagmeet Singh added, "It is not surprising that he's not
here,"
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