Dwight Drummond
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Dwight Drummond (born in Montego Bay, Jamaica c.1967), is a Canadian television presenter.
Drummond anchors Citytv Toronto's CityNews at noon along with Laura DiBattista. He is also the program's crime specialist. Drummond started out at Citytv as a security guard on Electric Circus in 1989. Since then he has worked as a teleprompter operator, floor director, studio cameraman, deputy chief of assignment, anchor of CityNews Streetbeat, and videographer of CityNews. He got his current job in 2000.
Dwight Drummond attended Runnymede Collegiate Institute of Technology (high school) and the Radio and Television Arts Program at Ryerson University.
In 1995, Drummond was accosted by two Toronto Police officers in what the officers described as a "high-risk takedown", but which was characterized by outside observers as a racial profiling assault as there was no evidence that Drummond had done anything besides driving while black. The allegation of police misconduct was one of several which contributed to a wildcat strike by police officers in the summer of 1995; current Toronto police chief Bill Blair, a supporter of community policing models, was assigned to head the affected police division in response to the strike. The incident also reportedly contributed to Drummond's own decision to move from a technical to an on-air journalist's role with Citytv.
He appears in the Maestro Fresh Wes video "Let Your Backbone Slide" (he is the cameraman at the beginning).
