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On a local note: we need to have a conversation about the *Mayor of Windsor* and the *Chair of the Police Services Board* continuing his foray into this criminal case and thereby politicizing it.
A few thoughts: https://windsor.ctvnews.ca/defence-seeks-to-throw-out-windsor-mayor-s-statement-in-sentencing-hearing-1.5263845
A few thoughts: https://windsor.ctvnews.ca/defence-seeks-to-throw-out-windsor-mayor-s-statement-in-sentencing-hearing-1.5263845
It should go without question this case is absolutely tragic and beyond devastating for the family. Nothing can bring their loved one back and that is a pain I hope no one suffers. https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/mayor-joins-family-in-denouncing-ganatchio-trail-killer-at-sentencing-hearing
The issue is the Mayor choosing this case, out of countless other criminal cases, to champion. Are other murder victims not deserving of the same sort of attention? But even that feels icky, like we're pitting victims against each other in their death. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/kaake-brush-sentencing-hearing-windsor-1.3946160
What is ~interesting~ about this case is the Mayor's Office organized a walk in support of this specific victim and the Mayor and Police chief then ended up in a photo with a straight up white supremacist. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/photo-with-windsor-mayor-police-chief-called-a-pr-victory-for-soldiers-of-odin-1.4366098
Sure, you can argue you may not have specifically known about this guy but as someone involved with law enforcement for years, is it not odd that there was not even a surface awareness of local white supremacists?
Back to this case: I think we have to say the quiet parts out loud here. This is an elderly, white woman murdered by a presumably brown man.
Whether the mayor used the word "savage" in his statement to describe the crime or, unintentionally, this dynamic is also concerning.
Whether the mayor used the word "savage" in his statement to describe the crime or, unintentionally, this dynamic is also concerning.
It is one thing to express horror at this crime but it is another to involve oneself so intimately in a case. It's isn't easy to separate your office and its influence to score some political points when the actions in question are so public and later, part of court proceedings.
Lastly, I would appreciate anyone with a better understanding of criminal law to add their two cents on the appropriateness of this.
I can (coldly) understand the politics: it's a great way to look ~tough on crime~ esp in a pandemic when crime has dropped significantly.
I can (coldly) understand the politics: it's a great way to look ~tough on crime~ esp in a pandemic when crime has dropped significantly.
