text: Police are also victims of extremely oppressive circumstances.  
  
  Their sworn duty is to uphold and enforce laws up to the moment those laws are changed.  They are given neither the authority nor the tools to determine which laws are falling from fashion or gathering legislative support on the road to being passed or revoked.  Yet they are castigated for every instance of poor judgement despite serving in stressful and very challenging situations, and maintaining a level of peace and security in Toronto that is truly the pride of the western world.  
  
  Now, this insult.
  
  If Pride and BLM have decided the police have no place in a parade that celebrates relief from oppression, I have no time for either Pride or BLM.  
  
  In sending the  NIMP message to the police, Pride richly deserves to see corporate and government sponsorships disappear.  I will be sending that message to the bank I deal with, and to the municipal, provincial and federal government politicians that represent me.