Scanlan: 'These are tears for Abdi' — Community marks one year since death

The memorial for Abdirahman Abdi at Somerset Square Park had a theme — “Standing Together.”
And together they stood Monday night in Hintonburg, more than 100 strong in the “cleansing rain,” in the words of First Nation Algonquin elder Barbara Dumont Hill.
“These are tears for Abdi,” said Hill, one of several voices heard on the occasion of the anniversary of Abdi’s death following a violent altercation with Ottawa police.
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