Halifax man reflects on racial profiling, 23 years after Supreme Court acquittal (CBC News)

Karen Clemmer 7/8/204:00 AM

By Cassidy Chisholm, June 6, 2020, CBC News.

A Halifax man who was racially profiled by police when he was 15 is speaking out about the trauma he's facing after the murder of George Floyd.

Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer on May 25 and his death has sparked anti-racism protests around the world.

Rodney Small was only 15 when he was arrested by a white police officer who claimed the teen assaulted him and now he said he's reliving the trauma of that experience.

"To be able to get that out there and speak the truth on what was really, really harbouring on my heart and holding me down and in ways that I never realized as a young man, it was very therapeutic to say the least," he said.

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