Kyle L. Canty, a native New Yorker, went before Canada's Immigration
and Refugee Board in Vancouver and asked the country to grant him
refugee status.
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That's the official term for political
asylum-seekers granted permission to remain, work and live in another
country. Canty told Canadian immigration officials that after living in
seven different states, he has faced what he describes as harassment and
undue targeting by police in each one of them because he is a black
man. And, Canty says, the recent spate of high-profile cases involving
alleged police misconduct and black male private citizens have only
affirmed his fears that this pattern might wind up costing him his life.
Is the entire world upside at this point? Can we just fucking call it already? Un-fucking-believable.
"At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation." —Igor Sikorsky
"You do realize that you are agreeing with Extorris. When it comes to lowest common denominators...he's number 1. Good people ask themselves "What would Extorris do?" then do the opposite"- Dehammer
You guys should take him. It'll be hard on us, not having the guy that cures cancer, but we're happy to share that glory with out brothers in the North.