Don't know what this guy was doing ...
... but even if we grant for the moment that the apprehension was lawful and justified, can you explain why the Toronto Police officers effecting the arrest decided they had to grind his face into the concrete while one of them put a knee on his head? Right around the 40-second mark.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
@LacyMacAuley and my namesake: This is where we juxtapose, redux | #G20
"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you—that would be the real betrayal."George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Chapter 7
She thought it over. "They can't do that," she said finally. "It's the one thing they can't do. They can't make you believe it. They can't get inside you."
"No," he said a little more hopefully, "no; that's quite true. They can't get inside you. If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them."
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Monday, June 27, 2011
#G20 anniversary: Queen & Spadina, one year later
Hundreds of citizens arrested on bullshit pretexts.
Detained arbitrarily in conditions that were gross violations of human rights.
Subjected to racist, sexist, misogynistic and homophobic slurs and harassment.
Assaulted indiscriminately.
Beaten, tear-gassed, shot with rubber bullets, and paraded naked.
And after all this time, no public inquiry, the Blue Wall endures and only two cops charged.
Tell us again how the system is working, @TorontoPolice Tweeter guy.
Detained arbitrarily in conditions that were gross violations of human rights.
Subjected to racist, sexist, misogynistic and homophobic slurs and harassment.
Assaulted indiscriminately.
Beaten, tear-gassed, shot with rubber bullets, and paraded naked.
And after all this time, no public inquiry, the Blue Wall endures and only two cops charged.
Tell us again how the system is working, @TorontoPolice Tweeter guy.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Creekside: G20 : Caught in the Act
Creekside: G20 : Caught in the Act: "When police stick to phony script : the Miami Model"
Have I mentioned that Alison rocks today?
A whole year of this self-important bastard? Christ on a crutch ...
Just realized: tomorrow marks exactly one year since the day OB jumped into the blogosphere. The inaugural post:
The G20 narrative: whose story is it?
Guess we're still struggling with that, but since you're all clamouring for a speech, I'll just keep it brief.
Shoutouts to Stephen Harper, Dalton McGuinty, Rob Ford, Julian Fantino, Bill Blair and, of course, Officer Bubbles and the Toronto Police. I wouldn't have done it without you ...
How to hold them accountable: let them embarrass themselves | #policeaccountability
Because there isn't going to be any meaningful institutional response.
But this might be even more effective. Just show them being assholes, and then let public scorn do its work.
If they don't act like this, they won't have to worry about being embarrassed.
Of course, enough of these recordings and we may be facing something like this ...
(h/t policewatch.ca)
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But this might be even more effective. Just show them being assholes, and then let public scorn do its work.
If they don't act like this, they won't have to worry about being embarrassed.
Of course, enough of these recordings and we may be facing something like this ...
(h/t policewatch.ca)
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@SousLePave: Best tweet from yesterday's #G20rally
Please tell me someone got a picture ...
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