Toronto Councillor Norm Kelly had issued a call for city council to ask the media to sign a "protocol" in which news outlets would agree to stop identifying Scarborough as the location of crimes occurring east of Victoria Park Ave.The facts tell a different story.
Another couple who live nearby said they watched as carloads of teens pulled up around 10 p.m.UPDATE: Shooting victim identified
"There must have been 40 to 50 of them in very short order," the man said. "They all had their cellphones out because you could see them lit up with the little blue lights."
A 17-year-old boy was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at hospital, police said. His name was not released as police were trying to contact his family.
Toronto Police have identified the teenager killed at a birthday party early Sunday morning as 17-year-old Kemar Long Thompson.RELATED: When dealing death... is no big deal
When the pattern of black-on-black violence is occasionally broken, white fear and outrage are redoubled.
This happened earlier this month after the killing of a white filmmaker, when thousands of people marched on City Hall to demand change, a majority of them whites.
The small showing of black marchers saddened Mr. Raphael, the minister.
In the 2006 murders, he said, “99 percent of them were black-on-black, and we did not march. As a community, we could not bring ourselves to respond to that.”
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