This will kill people www.winnipegfreepress.com/uncategorize...

lmao. see, people hate on "defund the police" because both political parties dragged it, but they still support what it actually means

Remember when Matt Wiebe promised "These new (officers) will reduce demands on police resources and will significantly improve (the) ability to stop dangerous people from hurting Manitobans"? Spending on criminalization only leads to more spending on criminalization.

Remember when Gillingham assured us all that his new security team was going to somehow fix issues of transit safety? Once again, its the WPS and its already gigantic budget ($353M in 2025, $370M in 2026) that benefits from the catastrophic failures of criminalization. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Of COURSE Gillingham's "Community Safety Team" is being weaponized for fare enforcement. This was never about community safety - and steals money that could be used to actually improve it (including through improving transit service). www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Another killer cop exonerated, entirely based on the account of his partner. The killer didn't speak to investigators or provide notes/reports, which ASIRT described as his "right of silence." Afolabi was afford no rights at all. He was executed within seconds. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Part of why we are where we are is that few people on any point of the political spectrum actually take racism seriously.

A good reminder that Community Connections was killed by Scott Gillingham and Evan Duncan not for failing, but for succeeding at something they didn’t want — making Millennium Library more welcoming to, and a better service for, poor and marginalized Winnipeggers. They *want* to push people away.

More Security guards wouldn't have helped ANY of these situations. Any actual obvious preventative measures have been ignored, as has the Library union and community groups desperately calling for the Community Connections space in the lobby to be reopened (closed due to being... too successful?)

Gillingham, for his part, remains unapologetic. Just incredible the way he can jump to policing as a solution after one death in the library, but we have to withhold judgement and blame with this one.

TW: Self Harm Read this article on Millennium Library. It’s important.

Assuming this is true, how would it in any way justify the level of violence used during this arrest? How will inflicting more trauma on someone help prevent this from happening again? How will further criminalization promote healing and well-being? How else might this have been avoided or resolved?

This cannot be reformed.

If we had put money into social services that would support the less fortunate, food theft would reduce. It’s only been proven to work nearly every place they try, but what do I know.

WARNING: Police violence We've received footage of a violent arrest at the St. James Superstore on Wednesday evening. During the arrest, the man was subjected to a knee on his neck, had a spit hood and "Ripp Hobble" restraint applied to him, and at least 10 cops responded. youtu.be/xwaecvX4Zqk

Incredibly rich coming from the councillor who's been shovelling millions of dollars more at the police every single year without any apparent concern about things like "evidence" or "research." Imagine what that money could do for income supports + poverty alleviation. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Continued cowardice from Matt Wiebe and the Manitoba NDP www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

It's not a few bad apples, it's rotten to the core. The police budget has an insatiable appetite and we need to recognize money spent directly on community programs and services has far higher ROI if we want to get out of this mess. #wpgpoli #winnipeg #mbpoli

I can hear it now: “Please be respectful and do not politicize this tragedy that might have been avoided if not for political decisions made by the mayor and city council.”

And this guy was awarded a medal! If he's the best of the Winnipeg Police Service what are the rest of them getting up to?

Winnipeg - your tax dollars at work. We're paying our cops to sell drugs and take naked pictures of victims instead of opening libraries on sundays, paving roads, cleaning parks or having pools to visit on hot days.

Chaser

Shot

Policing is an inherently violent and reactionary institution that must be abolished www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Winnipeg: support the tenants of 641-645 Westminster fighting a huge rent increase by Thorwin - Tues Aug 5th 10am @ 155 Carlton at their RTB hearing. And tell your MLA to close the loopholes and stop huge rent hikes!

"At least 11 people were killed by police in Canada in July 2025. ... These deaths include people who were directly killed by police, as in police shootings, and people who died during police deployments or in police custody." mediacoop.ca/node/119301 #cdnpoli

“In terms of harshness and the risk of harm to which they subject prisoners, (Manitoba facilities) rivalled anything I have observed in some of the worst solitary confinement units in the United States,” Haney wrote."

The WPS responded to a man threatening self-harm. He eventually left the apartment and was arrested "for safety." He "broke free from the officers and fell down the stairs" is now in critical condition with a possible traumatic brain injury. www.winnipegfreepress.com/this-just-in...

While quintupling military spending

While many of the rights and freedoms we value are under threat right now in Canada, we encourage everyone to use your voice! Join over 300 civil society groups, academics, and lawyers demanding full withdrawal of #BillC2. action.openmedia.org/page/173242/...

Getting really alarmed at all of the folks on here who praise Wab Kinew as being so progressive. But as the folks at @wpgpoliceharm.bsky.social demonstrate, Kinew is pro-cop and is only increasing the number of Indigenous folks who are being criminalized and jailed. #ACAB

Here's our latest blog post — by Cam Scott (@vanishingsigns.bsky.social) on the ongoing struggle against cops in schools and Premier Wab Kinew's right-wing attack on the movement. Please read + share! winnipegpolicecauseharm.org/blog/fault-l...

This is obviously enraging and extremely concerning. It's also worth remembering that prisoners are constantly dying in Canada's prisons, jails, and detention centres, and there is very little attention paid. All of these facilities are very dangerous and even lethal. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I just spent a couple days biking around Copenhagen, including a big ride through downtown streets with a four year old on their own bike, and felt safer doing that than I have ever before in my life. The difference was infrastructure, not cops and enforcement.

Here's our latest blog post, on the epidemic of traffic violence against pedestrians and cyclists in Winnipeg and why we can't look to the cops to keep us safe winnipegpolicecauseharm.org/blog/safer-s...

Our "leaders" claim to take an evidence based approach to governance, but when it comes to the climate, addressing poverty, safety/crime, housing, the economy, they demonstrably do not. Evidence that politicians care about being popular, not helping people.

Really disgusting: "Kinew used the visit to emphasize the need for a review of school safety, referencing school resource officers." Imposing SROs back into schools will make many Black and Indigenous students LESS safe. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

An update ⬇️ www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

What a joke. Gillingham campaigned on joining the police board to improve accountability, did absolutely nothing, and is now leaving to be replaced by a McDonalds owner. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

There’s no meaningful oversight of police harassment and violence towards individuals in Winnipeg, but we *will* be making sure the interests of businesses are looked after

I'm surprised by the response that this signals a need for police in schools, since we know from Fadi Ennab's detailed, Manitoba-centred analysis in 2022 that their presence causes BIPOC students to feel less safe in school, likely because it *actually* makes them less safe in school.

Wab exploited this attack to shill for more cops - but hasn't even bothered to contact the family. "She worries the community hasn't shown enough support following what she believes was a racially-motivated attack. Helen said she hasn't heard from the mayor or premier." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Of Manitoba's police oversight agencies, none are empowered to investigate what are known as systemic complaints—complaints that go beyond a single incident to allege patterns of behaviour from a police service around a particular issue. In today's paper ⬇️ www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

"defund the police" was so obviously correct. I really don't care if it doesn't poll well. it's like telling me that I should stop saying I like vaccines if they stopped polling well.

yes, they’re handing out a lot of complex instructions on how civilians in the field should verify its a real cop when the obvious solution is to not answer your door for one under any circumstance.

there is a lot to be terrified of with news out of Minnesota thing that sticks out to me is how the killer impersonated being a cop Canada's deadliest mass shooting also involved police impersonation pretending to be cops in order to kill speaks volumes about sanctioned police violence & impunity

Absolutely ghastly. MB NDP members should follow the example of Chris Wiebe from earlier this week and publicly quit the party. Anything less is an implicit endorsement of this right-wing, cop-loving leadership. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

My latest ⬇️ www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Police are not needed in schools for anything. Not anything good at any rate.

This is the premier that #NDP partisans across Canada are currently gushing over and promoting as a future national NDP leader.