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Why Didn’t Cops Catch Toronto’s Gay Village Serial Killer Suspect Sooner?

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Activists are asking if race and class played a part in delaying Toronto police from apprehending Bruce McArthur, and charging him with five first-degree murders of men.

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Now that accused Canadian serial killer Bruce McArthur has been apprehended, LGBT advocates are asking why police didn’t piece together years of reported disappearances in Toronto’s Gay Village sooner than they did.

Last December, as Vice and other outlets reported,

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