🇨🇦 Toronto man who stabbed a stranger and killed his brother gets escorted city visits despite 'significant threat'

Kenroy Samuel — schizophrenic, cannabis abuser, stabber of a random woman, killer of his own brother — is now approved for escorted city visits in Toronto. All parties at his review hearing agreed he "continues to represent a significant threat to the safety of the public," yet the Ontario Review Board is confident the plan will keep everyone safe. He stabbed a stranger from behind at 4 a.m. in 2019 because voices told him his mother would be killed if he didn't. Months later he murdered his brother during a family fight. Non-compliant with meds, paranoid, violent — classic profile.

But he's been "exemplary" in the facility, so now he gets field trips with an escort. Maybe his mother, whom he assaulted. The same justice system that coddles repeat offenders and NCR knife wielders while criminalizing speech and freezing bank accounts. Public safety is a polite suggestion, not a priority. Welcome to post-national Canada, where your risk of being stabbed by someone the system already knows is dangerous just got recalibrated as acceptable.

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