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But the gaping wound of racism is far from healed.

Cappo has travelled across Canada and believes Saskatchewan and Manitoba to be the most racist places.

“In Saskatchewan, Saskatoon and Regina have to be right up there at the top in Canada for sure,” Cappo said. “That’s been my experience.”

After he was injured at Canadian Tire, Cappo went to the Regina General Hospital to get checked out. There, he says, a white police officer there gave him “a cold, hate stare.”

“It’s just a cold stare that just means you’re worth nothing, get out of my way, don’t bother me,” he said.

Photo by Michael Bell / Regina Leader-Post

Racial discrimination has dogged Cappo and his family for years. There was a time when it wasn’t unusual for police to stop Cappo two or three times a day when he drove through North Central.

Cappo hadn’t broken any rules of the road when he was pulled over. He was infuriated he was being stopped when around the corner child prostitutes were being picked up by 40-year-old men.

About 20 years ago, his 11-year-old daughter was coming home from school in North Central when a white man stopped her and offered her $100 to get into the vehicle. “This completely terrified her,” Cappo said.

He called police but there was little they could do after the fact, and no media outlets picked up the story despite his pleas.

A couple of weeks later, the same thing happened to a child in an affluent neighbourhood and Cappo said “there was hysteria.”

“The police were seeking this person for at least three weeks through the media; all of the media covered it continuously,” he said.