It is the calculus by which a Black six-year-old girl in Mississauga, Ontario, is handcuffed by police; a twelve-year-old Tamir Rice playing by himself with a toy gun in a Cleveland, Ohio, playground is shot dead by police within twelve seconds of their arriving; Ella Kissi-Debrah, a nine-year-old Black girl who lived in London off the South Circular Road becomes, through her mother’s fight, the first person to have air pollution listed as cause of death on her death certificate; and Shukri Abdi, a twelve-year-old girl recently arrived in London from Somalia, is bullied for a month and found
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