The Toronto G20 Police Farce
It’s Tuesday and I’ve been thinking of what to write after the G20 summit. First of all, the summit was useless, they spent over a billion dollars to come to the NON BINDING agreement that maybe they should save money because they’re in debt. My mother taught me that when I was 4. Next time, just do a teleconference, we have the technology.
Why am I writing this? Because all this happened on my front lawn so to speak and the more I read about it, the more questions I have.
See this police car on fire on Queen street?
Notice that number on the side? According to Wikipedia, that car number doesn’t exist. Police cruisers are 4 digit numbers, the first 2 are the division numbers the 3rd number is the zone number and the 4th number is the car number. There is no 7th division in Toronto. The only explanation I can find is that it’s a spare car. Alright then, makes sense for them to put every available car on the street but it is a spare, so to speak.
Next up is the second car on Queen street set on fire which DOES have a 4 digit number (3251) and the Star ran the story on who’s car it was and what happened. The story goes like this, Staff Sgt. Graham Queen was following the protesters in his cruiser when it was suddenly attacked by the black bloc. I’ll assume that’s exactly what happened but still, something is weird with this story. From the Globe and Mail:
Between 7 p.m. and 3 a.m., all Toronto police patrol cars carry two officers. It’s the norm in most cases during the day, too, with exceptions for units such as traffic services. The two-officer practice is more than policy: It was actually written into the police collective agreement in the 1970s. “We were required to double the number of officers in a car,”
It’s the norm in most cases during the day that there are 2 officer’s in the car. You’d think that a police cruiser trailing a group of protesters during the G20 summit where there are riot police everywhere would have 2 police officers in the car. Best case scenario, the Toronto Police were really stupid on this point.
How about we go back to Montebello Quebec where undercover Police were found in Black Bloc clothing, one holding a big rock. The police confirmed they were officers.
We had some evidence of that happening in Toronto as well. Check out who runs safely behind police lines dressed all in black with a hoodie, cap and possibly a black face mask of somekind at the the 45 second mark.
Here’s a picture of Waldo:
Also, another video of an undercover cop dressed in Black Bloc clothing (Che? Seriously?)
Now, if the black bloc shows up at a protest, there are only ever a small number of them. If you’re an undercover police officer the last thing you want is people looking at you. Why dress as the black bloc if you’re trying to blend into the crowd? There’s some more circumstantial evidence that perhaps the police were directly involved with the violence over here.
And even if we even give a pass to all this and say that the cars were not planted and that there were cops dressed in black bloc gear but weren’t involved with the violence, there still the fact that the number of people who were responsible for the violence was approximately 200 to 300. Over 900 people were arrested over the G20 summit! That’s at least 3 times the amount of people responsible were arrested and were innocent and placed in the detention centre which is being described as ‘illegal and immoral’ with people being fed only once in 35 hours, in unsanitary conditions and sexual harassment.
Amy Miller – Alternative Media Centre, Independent Journalist from Darren Puscas on Vimeo.
Oh and the law passed in secret by the provincial government granting the police the right to detain anyone who refused to show identification 5 metres from the blockade wall?
Vasey was held under the Public Works Protection Act and charged with refusing to comply with a request of a peace officer. His bail lawyer, Howard Morton, said that, as far as he knows, Vasey is the first to be arrested under the new regulation.
Vasey was held under the Public Works Protection Act and charged with refusing to comply with a request of a peace officer. His bail lawyer, Howard Morton, said that, as far as he knows, Vasey is the first to be arrested under the new regulation
Yeah, that one? The problem is that that law is total bullshit which means that people were arrested under a bogus law that was said to be legal by the authorities.
Please join me and other fellow Torontonians into calling for an inquiry of the disgrace that was this past weekend. Let’s hold those in charge accountable.
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