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James Gales is a 52 year old Black man who was the passenger in a car in #HamOnt when the car was pulled over by police. The vehicles documents were in order, but when James got out of the car, he was pursued by police and beaten so badly he ended up in hospital. His alleged crime was missing a probation meeting.

James was racially profiled, as police normally have no business investigating the passenger in a car when no criminal activity is suspected.

The Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project and the Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion just released an interview with James from jail where he describes this racist attack. Transcript and audio are here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1yGTwg1NfyRbwJUntQro1priY421e3kLS?usp=drive_link

I've been talking with James regularly for the last six months, and I know it means a lot to him that people hear his story. By sharing it, he's hoping to contribute to dismantling white supremacy and policing in #Ontario and around the world.