The Ontario Court of Appeals said in an "unually blunt statement" regarding racism in the Ontario police department: Racism by police is "real and can't be ignored."

Anti-black racism by police is a reality of life that cannot be ignored, the Ontario Court of Appeal said in an unusually blunt statement on the highly sensitive issue of race.

It said that the community "and the courts, in particular, have come, some would say belatedly, to recognize that racism operates in the criminal justice system."

Beautiful, but with the caveat:

They also warned that courts must not bend over too far in the other direction, effectively forcing police defendants to prove that they did not act on racist impulses.

True. Nevertheless, the issue needed to be addressed and America's judicial system would do well to follow suit. Courts using discrimination cases "to embark on a lengthy discussion on the insidious nature of anti-black racism and racial profiling by police" en masse would bring the insidious issue of racism on America's streets to the forefront.

Of course, this would save lives, and I don't know how much our government is into that sort of thing.