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Starlight Tours
Type: Drawing
Genre: Charcoal on paper
Year: November, 2020
It’s been 30 years since Neil Stonechild died as a result of police « Starlight Tours »
This is only one case of many reported and many more unreported drives made by police in Saskatchewan.
The Saskatoon freezing deaths were a series of at least three deaths of Indigenous Canadians in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in the early 2000s. Their deaths were allegedly caused by members of the Saskatoon Police Service who would arrest Indigenous people, usually men, for alleged drunkenness and/or disorderly behaviour, without cause at times. They'd then drive them to the outskirts of the city at night in the winter where they would take their clothing, abandon them, leaving them to walk home.
The practice was known as taking Indigenous people for "starlight tours" and dates back to at least 1976. As of 2020, despite convictions for related offences, no Saskatoon police officer has been convicted specifically for having caused freezing deaths.
The practice was known as taking Indigenous people for "starlight tours" and dates back to at least 1976. As of 2020, despite convictions for related offences, no Saskatoon police officer has been convicted specifically for having caused freezing deaths.