Homicide Detective's Antisemitism Expose

0:00It's April 22nd. This is Canada News Today, AI-powered stories from your city. Hank Itzenga, a veteran Toronto police homicide detective, just dropped his memoir at the 34 years on the force, blaming anti-symmetism, racism, and weak leadership for his exit. He led the squad for five years, cracking cases including a serial killer, and insist he's no whistleblower, just laying out his truth in the high. Road, confessions of a homicide cop. Few knew Itzenga is Jewish, shaped by his grandfather's survival in Nazi camps like Dhakao before dying in a gas chamber in 1942. One elevator ride in December 2020 sealed his frustration when a senior officer spat an anti-symmetic slur about a lawyer they were meeting. Not the first time for those ugly remarks. Early in his career as a young cop, I'd sing a face to another mess spotting a drunken senior officer behind the wheel, wreaking a booze masked by garlic. He took the keys, reported it, but got slammed against lockers, and called a rat, highlighting

1:04supervision failures that haunted the force. After pushing back on the anti-symmetism by telling a deputy chief, Itzenga got sidelined, cut for meetings, his team hitting walls with brass. Still, his homicide unit smashed records, solving 82-85% of murders despite the drama. I'd sing a wares his grandfather's prisoner number on cufflinks as a reminder to fight the bad within. He urges cops to eyes wide open, join the ranks, knowing biases like racism and misogyny lurk. Presses the service must enforce checks to keep. Just as clean.