POLICE ARRESTS OF BLACK MEN RIPPED

JUDGES HAVE been sharply critical recently of police conduct during
searches and arrests of young black men. Last week, the Crown attorney
decided to stay and withdraw drug dealing charges against admitted drug
dealer Sheldon Jackson, 28, who was pulled over in his new 750 BMW in 2001
on St. Clair Ave. W. by Det. Glenn Asselin.

Asselin is the same officer named in the Kevin Khan case, considered the
first "Driving While Black" case ruling in Canada.

Khan, a real estate broker, was acquitted last month of a drug-trafficking
charge. Justice Anne Molloy said Asselin and his partner "fabricated
significant aspects of their evidence" when they pulled the 28-year-old
over on Marlee Ave. on Oct. 22, 2001.

Earlier this month, a judge who acquitted a veteran Toronto cop of charges
of assaulting a hearing-impaired black man branded the officer's testimony
as "illogical, convoluted and bizarre."

Justice Paul Robertson said he would have found Const. Syed Ali Moosvi
guilty of assault except the complainant's evidence was also lacking in
credibility.