Race played a role in Ontario drug dealer's sentencing: 'This somewhat attenuates his moral responsibility'

A judge took a Toronto drug dealer’s race into account when he sentenced him for trafficking and possessing a loaded handgun while under a court-ordered firearm prohibition.

The judge was persuaded that Brandon Caleb’s “life experiences flowing from his societal disadvantage and anti-Black racism normalized gun possession in his mind,” said the recent decision. “This somewhat attenuates his moral responsibility.”

Caleb was found guilty on the three charges in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice last summer.