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What Killed Jane Creba: Rap, Race, and the Invention of a Gang War

Posted By: roxul
Date: 24 Dec 2022 05:55:31
What Killed Jane Creba: Rap, Race, and the Invention of a Gang War

Anita Arvast, "What Killed Jane Creba: Rap, Race, and the Invention of a Gang War"
English | ISBN: 1459735064 | 2016 | 176 pages | EPUB | 867 KB

The sensational story of a girl's tragic death and the whirlwind of racial prejudices that came in its wake.

On Boxing Day 2005, fifteen-year-old Jane Creba was fatally shot on one of the busiest streets in Toronto. Police and journalists reported her death as that of an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of rival gangs.

In the months that followed Creba’s death, fifty-six men of colour were arrested in connection with the shooting. Twelve men went to preliminary hearings. One black man pleaded guilty, and another three men, also black, were convicted of her murder.

But only one bullet killed Jane.

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