Police in Thunder Bay, Ontario, have launched an internal investigation after officers forced a Native teen to remove a t-shirt that displayed an image of a war chief. Abraham Miles, 17, was told the t-shirt was associated with gangs. Police made him take it off in front of his classmates, who were touring the police station. He was taken to a separate room for questioning. "What crime did he commit other than being a native person? Wearing a shirt the policeman didn't like?" Stan Beardy, Grand Chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, told The Globe and Mail. Miles, who is from the Fort Severn First Nation, attends Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School, a Native school in Thunder Bay. The t-shirt he was wearing came from the Warchief Native Apparel line. Get the Story:
Native community angry after police question teen about shirt (The Globe and Mail 12/4) $rl Warchief Native Apparel - http://warchiefnativeapparel.myknet.org
Fort Severn First Nation - http://fortsevern.firstnation.ca
Nishnawbe Aski Nation - http://www.nan.on.ca
