starlight tour
The practise of police officers driving a person, usually an Aboriginal man/youth to the outskirts of town during the night, and often during winter, and leaving them there to walk back to town. These individuals are often beaten en route, and many have died as result of this phenomenon.
Neil Stonechild, an Native youth froze to death in 1990, after being taken on a 'starlight tour' by two Saskatoon police officers.
Starlight Tour
The practice of police officers driving a person, aboriginal to the outskirts of town during a winter night, and leaving them there to walk back to town. Many have died as result of this phenomenon contributed by hypothermia.
Eleanor “Laney” Ewenin was last seen taken away by the Calgary Police on a ‘starlight tour' that night then the next morning found in jeans, leather snow boots, a down vest and a bomber jacket in a field near a rural road.
Starlight Tour
Term used by the Saskatoon Police Department to describe the practice of leaving drunken Indians to freeze to death on the outskirts of the city.
"Looks like Dakota here might have had a few too many tonight. A Starlight Tour should clear his head."