04-12-2021, 01:12 PM
Another reason why this design was problematic was because they used a very, very similar artistic design that the local black artist Trisha Abe uses when painting murals throughout the region, many of which are focused on illustrating diversity. She wrote an article last Wednesday for insideWaterloo about this, explaining how when the WRPS vehicle hit the streets, many people familiar with her work began asking her if she was the one responsible for the design of the WRPS cruiser: https://insidewaterloo.ca/op-ed-art-heal...sers-dont/