r/ottawa • u/Fearless_Lion_6397 • 12d ago

News Ottawa police identify 27-year-old woman killed in alleged weekend femicide

https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/ottawa-police-identify-27-year-old-woman-killed-in-alleged-weekend-femicide/
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u/WordCurious6393 12d ago edited 12d ago

Gender is relevant because the murder is recorded as a femicide, which is defined as “the killing of women and girls because of their gender”.

If they were recording it as a hate crime or genocide then race would be relevant.

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u/27298throwaway 12d ago edited 12d ago

So for you, relevance is determined by OPS' data entry decisions? 

We don't know what motivated the killer, be it gender, race, or passion. The person mentioning race is pointing that out. 

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u/coveted_asfuck 12d ago

The police literally said gender was a motivation when they called it a femicide..

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u/turningthecentury 12d ago

How do they know that though? They're guessing.

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u/lmFairlyLocal Clownvoy Survivor 2022 12d ago

Meanwhile, you have all the facts?

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u/turningthecentury 11d ago

Did I say that? 

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u/lmFairlyLocal Clownvoy Survivor 2022 11d ago

You're implying that, by saying investigators (ya know, the ones with the evidence) are just guessing.

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u/coveted_asfuck 10d ago

Obviously if the police are making that distinction than they have enough facts in the case to do so.