Edmonton Police Under Fire For Calling Teenage Girl ‘Mulatto’ In Amber AlertPosted in Articles, Canada, Media Archive on 2018-10-14 00:49Z by Steven |
Edmonton Police Under Fire For Calling Teenage Girl ‘Mulatto’ In Amber Alert
The Huffington Post Canada
2018-10-07
Sima Shakeri, Associate Editor
 Alberta Emergency Alert The Amber Alert sent out on Friday, with information about the alleged victim censored for her protection. |
People who received the alert were shocked by the word choice.
Edmonton police issued an Amber Alert on Friday afternoon for a missing 14-year-old girl, who had allegedly been forcibly abducted.
The girl was found safe shortly after the call was sent out, and a suspect has been charged with several offences including kidnapping with a firearm, but what caught many people’s attention was the word choice in describing the teen.
The alert said the alleged victim was “mulatto,” an outdated term for a child with one white and one black parent…
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