page_title: Death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet
section_title: Aftermath
hierarchical_section_title: Death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet / Aftermath
caption_attribution_description: English: Justice For Regis - Not Another Black Life rally and March.
context_page_description: The death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a 29-year-old Indigenous-Ukrainian-Black Canadian woman, occurred in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on May 27, 2020. Responding to multiple 911 calls from Korchinski-Paquet, her mother, and her brother, for a domestic disturbance involving punches, thrown bottles, and knives, police attended her apartment. Subsequent to the arrival of police, Korchinski-Paquet fell to the ground 24 storeys below, and died at the scene. Her family accused the Toronto Police Service of having played a role in her death, which led to a Special Investigations Unit investigation. The SIU announced in late August it had cleared all police officers of wrongdoing and found no evidence of police involvement in her death.
  Korchinski-Paquet's death inspired a number of protests in Canada against police involvement in her death and other issues of anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism. These protests occurred at the same time as the George Floyd protests.
context_section_description: Shortly after Korchinski-Paquet's death, her mother Beals-Clayton was recorded in a video stating that responding officers had shoved her daughter off the apartment balcony. Her cousin claimed that it was not possible that she decided to take her own life, stating "Exactly, my cousin’s not jumping. She’s a Christian woman, she’s not doing suicide, that ain’t what we do, we don’t do that, we ain’t killing ourselves, that’s number one, 100 per cent."
  The Toronto Police Services Board announced that they agree that "everyone wants and deserves answers" and that the investigation into the matter "as expeditiously as possible". The head of the union representing Toronto police stated that everyone should withhold judgement until all facts and evidence are available.
  A protest organized by the group Not Another Black Life occurred on May 30. Thousands of people gathered to protest Korchinski-Paquet's death and other issues of anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism. Police officers estimated the protest was attended by 3,500 to 4,000 people at the Toronto rally, with a few hundred at a separate rally in Halifax. Due to the size of the crowd, many protesters were unable to maintain 2 metres (6.6 ft) of physical distance, which had been mandated by the province in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A further protest in Toronto occurred on June 5.
  The rallies took place at the same time as rallies, protests and riots in the United States and elsewhere in reaction to the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
caption: Protest in Toronto on May 30, 2020
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