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Toronto’s Black Lives Matter to hold vigil for Abdirahman Abdi

Friday, August 05, 2016
By Gilbert Ngabo

The 37-year-old man died last month following an altercation with police officers


Ottawa’s Abdirahman Abdi died July 25 following what witnesses described as a violent arrest at the hands of two Ottawa police officers. CANADIAN PRESS/FAMILY OF ABDIRAHMAN ABDI


Toronto’s Black Lives Matter activists will join members of the local Somali community and other allies Friday at a vigil to remember Abdirahman Abdi.

The 37-year-old died last month following what witnesses described as a violent arrest by two Ottawa police officers.

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In a public notice posted on social media, Black Lives Matter Toronto said the event is about showing solidarity with Abdi’s family and the community at large.

“For the last week, yet again, we have been in mourning. We have been in mourning because another life was taken from us at the hands of a police. The system continues to target us, criminalize us brutalize us in hostility to our Blackness. To our Muslimness,” the group wrote on Facebook.

The memorial takes place at Daniels Spectrum near Gerard and Parliament, from 5 p.m. to 9p.m. 



 





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