Sustained court discrimination against Blacks in rape cases (8 ene 1858 año – 17 ene 1958 año)

Descripción:

"In an analysis of one hundred years of trials between 1858 and 1958 in Ontario, Barrington Walker found that the courts heavily sanctioned the rape of white women by Black men, in the rare instances that it occurred. In comparison, white men who sexually assaulted Black women were granted considerable leniency (Walker 2010: 141). In 1900, Sarah Dorsey, a thirty-eight-year-old Black woman, was subject to a brutal sexual attack by six white men in Glencoe, Ontario. Despite strong evidence to the contrary, all six men were found innocent and told by the judge 'to behave themselves' (Walker 2010: 162-164)."

Source: Robyn Maynard. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (2017). Page 44.

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