Ottawa urges RCMP to ban use of sponge rounds, CS gas for crowd control
The public order units of major municipal police forces, including in Vancouver and Toronto, confirmed to The Canadian Press that they also have access to the tools.
He said tear and rubber bullets are “very inflammatory terms,” bringing up images of coups d’etat, or of police attacking people who had been marching for Black civil rights outside Selma, Ala., in 1965.“I’m not sure why those terms would be used if the government was serious about looking at less lethal alternatives.
El Jones, an activist who helped lead a study on defunding police forces, says police are “an unaccountable force in Canada.” The issue of which tools are and aren’t available to police is receiving heightened attention following the killing of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by police in Memphis, Tenn., in early January.
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