APTN News Brief: May 17, 2024

Our lead story: during Thursday’s proceedings in the multiple murder trial of Manitoba’s Jeremy Skibicki-whose lawyers claim he’s not criminally responsible due to mental illness for the killing of four Indigenous women-the Crown calls his estranged wife to the stand in support of their argument that Skibicki knew what he was doing and that it was racially motivated.

[@jpintero6330]

My son is getting hate at school because he is White. He never hurt a living soul. Please stop making everything about race. He has no where to turn. If you think "good" because of colonization, you are just as bad as they were.

[@isabellind1292]

Public Service Announcement:
Statistics Canada: "Court Outcomes in Homicides of Indigenous Women & Girls/2009-2021":
81% of indigenous women/girls murdered in Canada knew their killer (intimate partner/acquaintance/family member) and in 86% of those cases, the person accused of their homicide was also indigenous.
In fact, overall stranger homicides were LESS COMMON among indigenous victims (8%) verses non-indigenous victims (12%) of women/girls killed.
Just setting the record straight.
And anyone who targets another human being because of their race are called "RACISTS!" Your son did nothing wrong. I love the little animal in your picture. I wish you and your son peace.🌺💓