The head of Calgary’s Black Lives Matter movement in Calgary has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly blocking access to a Catholic school.
On June 2, Adora Nwofor was charged with mischief in connection with a May 26 incident for allegedly “wilfully obstructing and interfering” with the use of a property “primarily used for religious worship and educational purposes.”
Court records allege she interfered with people’s use of St. Thomas Aquinas School on 26 Avenue SW “for reasons of bias, prejudice, or hate based on race or ethnic origin.”
Nwofor, 47, is president of Black Lives Matter YYC.
Two months ahead of her charges, Nwofor tweeted she “will never stop being bitter about my Black girl experience in Calgary…I don’t see Black people and if I do they don’t feel safe to do Blackness.”
“Systemic oppression ain’t stopped winning. I won’t stop interrupting it! Immaculéea (sic) Threat,” she wrote.
Nwofor appeared before a justice of the peace on June 2 over video and was released on a non-cash bail with conditions she have no contact with staff and faculty from St. Thomas Aquinas. She is also barred from going within 100 metres of the school.
Nwofor’s case is back in court on Friday.
Last year, public tax information revealed that BLM spent $12 million on mansions in Los Angeles and Toronto.
The Canadian arm of BLM bought a 10,000-square-foot mansion in downtown Toronto for $6.3 million. The site, formerly owned by the Canadian communist party, was rebranded as the Wildseed Centre for Art and Activism.
