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A man is in custody after a woman was set on fire while on a TTC bus Friday afternoon in what police are calling a “random attack.”

The release of previously unseen Toronto police data that show disproportionate enforcement and use of force against Black residents is renewing calls to defund the police, two years after city council voted against such a proposal.

A University of Toronto professor who helped develop the framework for the Toronto Police Service’s race-based data policy is welcoming the release of unsettling new statistics on use of force incidents, which she says validate “the magnitude of what the Black community deals with daily” and serve as “step one” in actually addressing it.

A University of Toronto professor who helped develop the framework for the Toronto Police Service’s race-based data policy is welcoming the release of unsettling new statistics on use of force incidents, which she says validate “the magnitude of what the Black community deals with daily” and serve as “step one” in actually addressing it.

OTTAWA: Toronto’s police chief apologised on Wednesday for his officers’ excessive use of force against Blacks, and released data backing up community claims of discrimination by law...