CEC Media Releases

Media Release - A Learning Moment

Whitney Knott — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:47:21 -0400

Media Release - A Learning Moment

March 19th, 2021

A learning moment The community members of the Community Equity Council advocated since the beginning of its inception in 2019 for two things: violent situations against Indigenous, faith based and racialized people be identified as hate incidents/hate crimes; and when these incidents occur,…

Media Release - Abdi Decision

Whitney Knott — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 17:02:39 -0400

Media Release

October 20th, 2020

“Abdirahman Abdi, a 37-year-old Black man, died following a confrontation with Ottawa Police on July 24, 2016.” (CBC, October 20, 2020) Const. Daniel Monstsion was found not guilty in his death today. This is a very sad day for a family in our community, for the Somali and Black community and for the…

Media Release - Racist Memes Circulated within the Ottawa Police Services

Whitney Knott — Tue, 12 May 2020 11:49:59 -0400

Media Release

April 29th, 2020

The Ottawa Police Service Community Equity Council received information on Monday, April 27th that two memes were circulated within the Ottawa Police Services and into the broader Ottawa community. One meme consisted of a caption and photographs of current and former members of the Ottawa Police…

Media Release – Rawlson King

Whitney Knott — Sun, 05 May 2019 19:48:20 -0400

The OPS Community Equity Council would like to congratulate Rawlson King, the chair of the CEC, in his successful bid for Councillor for Rideau-Rockcliffe ward.

It is especially significant that Rawlson is the first Black City Councillor in the history of Ottawa. We know at the CEC that representation in all public institutions is critical to…

Press Release – Community Leadership of the Community Equity Council

Whitney Knott — Sun, 05 May 2019 19:47:23 -0400

The Ottawa Police Services Community Equity Council wants to acknowledge the new Leadership members from the Community. At the January 2019 meeting, Rawslon King was elected Community Co-Chair of the Community Equity Council and Sahada Alolo was elected Community Vice-Chair.

Recently Rawslon decided to run in the Ottawa by-election election for…

Press Release – The CEC’s Work

Whitney Knott — Sun, 05 May 2019 19:44:46 -0400

The OPS Community Equity Council started its work in late 2018/early 2019. There have been a number of situations that we have been following closely that have exposed the need for us to find ways to build strong relationships between Ottawa Police Services and the racialized, Indigenous and faith based communities in order to continue making and…