Mercedes spoke to protestors outside Toronto Police Headquarters who were demanding a full public inquiry into the deaths of mentally ill persons involved in interactions with police. The protest followed the shooting death by police of Michael Eligon who had left a psychiatric facility and was found in downtown Toronto wearing a hospital gown and […]
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Mercedes was an invited speaker at the annual Law Union of Ontario Conference. This year’s conference was titled “Occupy, Protest, Resist”. Mercedes’ talk addressed constitutional issues and community treatment orders in Ontario’s Mental Health Act. […]
Kelley represented a client in a Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario case against the Toronto police. Her client, who has a physical disability, asserted that he was discriminated against when police officers arrested him on suspicion of having a gun because he was a black man walking with a limp. See The Full Story […]