Posts tagged Jannai Dopwell-Bailey

Recent events have left me sort of reeling. Story after story, socially and politically, local and national, has challenged almost all of what I have left in me. I have seen a lot; however, this week has been one gut punch after another. As a city, Montreal continues to tussle with increased incidents of violence. The senseless spate of crimes and racist acts begs the question, “ who are we? Who are as a nation, as a people, and more jarringly, what are we becoming? Recently in a scathing decision released by the Police Ethics Committee, police officer Michael Boutin …

A day after her son, 16-year-old Jannai Dopwell-Bailey was stabbed to death in his school yard on Monday, October 18, Charla Dopwell heard about the video posted online that showed three young men seemingly mocking his death and taunting relatives and friends. “I can’t say that it has had too much of an impact on me… I’m so numbed,” she told The CONTACT. “I still can’t believe my baby is gone.” Mourning her youngest son is particularly difficult because it’s only two months since she enrolled him at Programme Mile End, an alternative high school located just e few blocks …