For three years Comfort Sakoma sat on the Vancouver Police Board, most recently as vice chair.
“When I started on the board, I will say that I was extraordinarily excited,” Sakoma told Global News.
“I was brought on at a time when I think there was a lot of conversation that needed to be had within my community.”
Then two weeks ago, she was asked to resign due to online posts about immigration and religion, which the board said were inconsistent with its code of conduct.
“You know, it started with obviously the public announcement made by the board chair that I had been asked to resign,” she said.
“Morphed into sort of a lot of public criticism and very hurtful and hateful statements by the public that then sort of moved and became a lot of public support.”
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