The call to defund police, spending more of the police budget on other health and safety issues, spread across North American as people protested the police in-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May.

Indigenous women are two per cent of the female population in Vancouver, yet are 21 per cent of the women who are street checked, says the BCCLA.

"If there's a profiling element or a "carding" as its characterized here, I want to know why that is the case."