starlight tour
n.— «In early February, a First Nation’s man Darrell Night reported that he had been taken outside the city and dropped off by Saskatoon police.…Around the same time that Mr. Night was dropped off, two frozen bodies of First Nations men…were found in fields near the “drop off” spot. There are three other deaths that are also suspicious and similar. This police practice has a nickname on the street, it is called a “starlight tour.”» —“Continuing Police Atrocities Against Canadian First Nations” by Patricia Monture Angus Mar. 12, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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