Khalila Mohammed, a former community health worker who worked at the safe injection site for drug users inside the South Riverdale Community Health Centre in July 2023, testified Monday it was mentioned to her “that drug dealers are part of our community and without them, we don’t have clients.”

Mohammed said her work was to respond to overdoses, do referrals, connect clients to care, test drugs and work with the nursing team.

She explained she worked with drug users and drug dealers, saying she would frequently offer them cigarettes, water and to come inside on hot days. Mohammed testified she mainly interacted with dealers because she would “test their drugs.”

Mohammed, a Crown witness at the Damian Hudson second-degree murder trial, said Hudson, who has pleaded not guilty but has

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