‘I try my hardest not to think about it’: 12-year-old recounts handcuffing at BMO | CBC News
The 12-year-old Indigenous girl who was handcuffed and then
detained for 45 minutes by the Vancouver Police Department on a downtown
street Dec. 20 after trying to open an account at the Bank of Montreal
says she doesn’t even want to think about what happened anymore.
detained for 45 minutes by the Vancouver Police Department on a downtown
street Dec. 20 after trying to open an account at the Bank of Montreal
says she doesn’t even want to think about what happened anymore.
“I
was scared,” Tori-Anne said Monday. “The whole thing being handcuffed,
after all the identification we showed that we are who we are.”
CBC News has decided not to publish the girl’s last name.
“I try my hardest not to think about it,” she said from a Vancouver lawyer’s office.