@barcacrossesthealps and I've lived in America my whole life unfortunately, I've seen some violent, uncalled for shit from the authorities, and it makes you hold grudges.
@barcacrossesthealps kk I thought Toronto was a city I. The us cut me some slack I'm 12 for fucks sake so quit being a total jerk about it. America is just as bad in case you havent seen some of the peaceful protestors who were arrested, brutally assaulted and pepper sprayed for no reason.
All I remember hearing on the major Canadian news stations were that the rioters started trashing stores and looting. All the anchors had similar responses, calling the G20 protesters anarchists, thieves, criminals and a menace to society. The mayor wanted to prevent any sort of investigation of what really happened. Thankfully, we have journalists like Steve Paikin to voice the truth. Democracy was never true in reality, but thanks to the internet its easier to find out the truth now-a-days.
i dont get this, peace protest and cops brind shield, protest brings rocks and bats, cops get guns and tear gas, when protest brings guns the cops bring machine guns, when protest brings machine guns, cops get bombs, when citizents get bombs cops call army for back up, when protest get ex armies the cops bring the special forces, when protests get ex special forces cops get armour cars with rpgs and more guns. that goes on and on.
@darksantos1 actually police are fairly limited. What you saw at G20 is the baddest they get. Most of what you mentioned will be dealt with the army. But hey, if get gangs like those in Mexico...then army is truly fucked.
Uh...I hate to break it to you, but the G20 was in TORONTO in 2010. Toronto is in Canada, ya know!
Haha! It's funny, really it is. You are so anti-American you don't even pay attention to the video. You just show up to bash a nation you've probably never been to.... enjoy life as an acephalic nematode.
It accomplished one thing that's for sure. Those that wish to rule the audience, demonstrated their preparedness to do so. Even if the a portion of citizenry were used as extra's for their staged G20. As in threatre, a dress rehearsal.
Provocative, but wasn't that what it was meant to be?
Wherever the G20/Bilderbergers go, it seems, this SS behavior follows. You don't have to do ANYthing wrong; just being there is enough. Cops make up rules, laws or whatever as they go, attack for NO reason or have other cops create "reasons" to be as abusive as they like. The creatures meeting there are so rich, nothing of this can possibly touch them. And it's getting worse and worse.
There's a video one of the protesters made here on Youtube called, "Polizei verhaftet Demonstranten für garnichts (G20-2010)". Totally confirms what he says.
...There's no german in the video of you were worried.
I've always liked Paikin ever since I first started watching him when I was younger. He has integrity and he's downright honest. Personally, to me he does the best journalism and uses the perfect amount of detail when he speaks and when he reports.
I am an artist that is determined to use my talent to get the voices of the People heard! There is no such thing as the little guy anymore.! i wrote a song called "Prank Of America" & it's about the banks &their crimes. go to w w w . imperfectrecords . c o m you can use my song to record your own home video and post it everywhere. LET OUR VOICES BE HEARD! Thru music we can surely do that! Dayme
News Flash - this is a lawless country. This is a police state. You think you have rights but you don't. If you ask for your rights, they project you as a terrorist and under that act, they look through girls bedroom, through clothes. They intercept your phone lines. Not just surveil, but intercept. you call somewhere, their bitch pretends to be operator picks up the phone and then transfers you to wrong number. Costing you minutes + money+ add bogus internet charges onphone. Surveillance abuz
I DO NOT HAVE TO RESPECT A PIECE OF SHIT, MOST POLICEMEN ARE A PIECE OF SHIT.. MY WIFE AND I WAS TAKEN FROM OUR MOTOR HOME IN JOLIET, ILLINOIS KNOCK US TO THE GROUND AND BEATEN BY 4 POLICEMEN ABOUT 15 OTHER PLOICEMEN STOOD AROUND AND DID NOT HELP US. AT ALL. BLEEDING ALL OVER WE ARE 66 & 67 Y.O.It's obvious that the police are the common enemy of the people POLICE ARE ARMED AND RETARDED THEY WILL HURT YOU ONLY THING ON MY RECORD IS A SPEEDING TICKET IN 1992
At first I though this was a story about a writer for The Guardian in the UK. And all of them deserve a good police kicking, because that is a PC fascist publication. But then I delved deeper and saw that this is a Canadian version. Seems a quality reporter and shame that this occurred in Canada, a country I always considered progressive and decent.
The police treat non-middle class folks like this all the time and it goes unreported. Now, they are taking away civil liberties from middle class folks as well... this is a chilling indication of the state of our country.
No, this is the coercive state that radical analysts, scholars & anarchists warned us about. Nothing at all to do with the Bilderberg fantasies of chemtrail sniffing fruitcakes like Alex Jones.
This guy lost me when he started speaking out of his ass about the black bloc harming property "and people", the latter part of which is just a lie. He then made it worse by talking up the middle class like a two-bit politician.
Police brutality in Canada... Impossible.. (sarcasm) Happens more often then we think, we hear VERY seldom when this happens. Are we sure the reporter (Jesse) didn't have a "heart attack" or bad cramps which made him keel over.
Dissenting opinions are acceptable in democracies as long as they stay within accepted discourse parameters. Discourse that goes to the heart of democracies and the government will respond violently. In this case class, wealth, class structure and class struggle. Western democracies do not accept economic democracy - in fact not even political democracy given the strong impact of money on electoral outcomes. So, still think we live in a democracy?
@Chunks. I see you have a hard time getting past 4 letter words. Fact is that a criminal offense means, as a licensed professional (which I know YOU are not) you can lose your license and thereby your ability to earn a income. With a ciminal offence, as a student you are then not able to choice careers that require licenses. If any of those "trumped up charges" stick it can financially RUIN lives. READ the stories. Eye wash? A sign with a possible sharp edge are WEAPONS? U GROW up.
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Ok, I blow up Your car, shit all over Your house, and fuck Your shit up big time. Then I send some hippie asshole to sit on your front lawn to protest some bullshit, While You're frickin house (city) is in ruins, while the world leaders are in town!?!. Don't think so, you idiot cowards.
The Police were given extraodinary powers by McGuinty and his Cabinet to RUIN average citizens lives. These citizens and students could LOSE either their current or future CAREERS due to this misuse of POWER obtaining a "criminal" record for being in Cities streets? NOT a JOKE and NOT to be taken Lightly by ANYONE. Thanks Steve for speaking the TRUTH and reporting things as they really were. WE cannot ALLOW civic rights to be stomped on by the very people who are supposed to protect them.
send this to every cop you know (soviet story on mefeedia dot com) they are setting up their own detention and death camps because IF tyranny takes over the cops who helped bring this about will be eliminated first.
Jesse didn't deserve to be beaten, but he should have allowed the police officer to do their job and not constantly repeat himself by asking the same thing over and over again. Antagonizing police officers during a riot is not the best thing he could have done.
@northsun99 He didn't prevent them from doing their job. What i said was he should have allowed them to do their job without constantly saying the same thing over and over again. Its very annoying and in the middle of a riot antagonizing police officers is not the best thing he could have done.
@naughtybeast The police were holding him in custody, so he should have been asking them why they were holding him. One cop took his ID badge, then a third cop assaulted him. If you listened to Paikin's account of the story, it wasn't a riot-- it was a peaceful assembly.
@rickthaluddite There was a riot in progress when the man was beaten. He did ask them why and they apparently answered once, then he kept asking the same thing over and over. I did listen to Paikin's account, and to reiterate it was peaceful until the police provoked the crowd.
This is a very important interview. Paikin is a NWO shill and his message here will likely never be on TV.
I was shocked that all the media was threatened with arrest but not surprised that the mainstream media actually fucked off instead of staying and doing their job to inform the public of what was happening right to the end. Journalists know, better than anyone, they have no fear of getting arrested for doing their job in a democracy. Our freedom has been usurped and will not be seen on TV.
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he said the crowd was trapped with no where to go at , then he said at 3"55 that they left and went down the road, so, hes not telling the truth, he said they had no where to go, but they really did... so which is it? were they trapped or not? so they were not protestors? 4"26 so what are they, oh wait, then at 3"49 he says they are, so what the hell is this guy talking about???? he can't even make up if they are protestors or not. There's no credibility here.....
they are obviously protesting. you are making mountains out of molehills, the point is that it was a manifestation. if steve doesn't know how to label it that doesn't make him a liar, only inaccurate.
At one time everyone there at Spadina + Queen was boxed and was prevented from leaving. Until they were Boxed in they were relatively free... Only Nazi governments prevent protests.... is that what you support
This is really accurate, I was standing with this guy behind the pillar, helped him try to find a new battery for his black berry. However I don't remember the police saying anything to the crowd, and in my opinion if you're being a smart alec to police you deserve something like what jesse got. It's funny how he calls him scrony.
When the tyranny becomes oppressive to the point where the people are treated as animals the necessary response is a Molotov cocktail. Those pigs are the brown shirts and nothing else.
I've become so disenfranchised by voting. I don't vote for liberals or commu...conservatives, and I feel voting for NDP would just shift the nonsense to another party.
But after this garbage, I want to vote. But for what? Voting just to get rid of an idiot is like voting for John Kerry to get rid of GWB, or voting for Obama just to not have Sarah Palin as VP. Christ I feel so powerless. Welcome to Canada
@TheRuffianAngel The comments on this petition almost made me cry. some people were just going about their daily business and were hurt by police. I have a friend who knows some of the undercovers who did the hammering of windows and burning of the cars. It was all set up for the media. Please get this Bill Blair to resign becasue I am afraid of what will happen next from him
@TheRuffianAngel ...The petition should ACTUALLY be for Stephen Harper to resign or be removed from his post as Prime Minister of Canada. He was the source of this "Reign of Terror".
@TheRuffianAngel Did you know that some of the orders given by Police Chief Blair were so awful that some police (many) were actually crying. Everyone should sign this petition. chiefblair.resignnow.ca
@TheRuffianAngel I have been reading the comments on this petition and i started to cry. Please everyone try and do something about this horrible change in Canada. OMG I had hoped Canada would show the world how to do a G20 properly. But $1 billion spent when every other country only spends about $30 million? And Canada is now the laughing stock of the world because it claims to be good on human rights but the TV coverage shows civil rights in Canada don't exist.
A 2008 declaration signed by then-Minister of Public Security Avi Dichter and Canadian Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day created an arrangement for Canada and Israel. According to the Israeli ministry's website, it allowed the countries to "share knowledge, experience, expertise, information, research, and best practices" and "facilitate technical exchange cooperation, including education, training, and exercises. Read Jimmy Johnson's@ electronic intifada. Also Jeff Halper.
MOST (that's 90%) of the arrests were not justified. Cops had nothing better to do and never arrested those that burnt down a car and smashed windows. Talk about hypocrisy!
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anyone who was arrested or detained deserved it. Hippie protester weekend warriors...go smoke more pot and fight the man. idiots. Messed with the bull and got the horns, now cry about it.
@MitchT00 Are you suggesting that blindly following our fearless leaders is always the best option? Without exception? Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, my friend. As Plato said, "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Surely you can understand the people's desire to maintain Canada's constitutional rights.
Sounds to me like they needed to make some arrests because they hadn't caught any of the rioters earlier.. so they just grabbed any group of people they came across... and arrested them to show that they were arresting 'someone' to blame for the G20 disaster/window breakages/car fires!!
I still can't believe that all Media call that Democracy 8)))))))) Once again look in to the Dictionary and figure out what democracy definition is. Democracy doesn't exist anymore it became Utopian term long time ago...
If this were happening in Iran we'd be saying, "Wow, look at what an oppressive government, repressing freedom of speach." Now it 's happening here. Last time I checked the charter of rights gives people the right to peaceful assembly. (I'm not talking about the black block tactic hooligans) Assaulting people just standing in the street and journalists documenting it is just that - assault. The officers involved should be investigated for the purpose of laying charges and fired.
same thing happened in pittsburgh last year- pitt students on their campus chanting lets go pitt- students curious at the video game like massive police presence in full riot gear literally outside their dorms on a friday evening/absolutely no political agenda/ same as described above. i cannot see where the west differs from iran and it pains me to say that.
This «police state » is among us for quite some time but the feminist have done everything on their might to deny that reality. Wake up folks. You've seen their true colors in Toronto during the G-20 meetings. Since more than 20 years, these thugs could come to your house, no warrant needed and put you under arrest on a simple allegation, no proof needed, of domestic violence. We have try to allert the public and nobody would listen. Now, they are at your front door. Would you listen ?
They (police) should have "roughed up" the anarchists who stole the limelight from the peaceful protesters.I bet most of those masked hooligans don't even live in Toronto.
@wabdinur there is growing evidence with all the video coming out that many of these "black bloc" types were actually police officers. agents provocateurs inciting violence for a reason to put areas on lockdown. dont believe me? /watch?v=aeG_t9abaSU&feature=player_embedded . these are mostly undercover plainclothes, but there is a black clad man with black bandana and backpack who also congregates with the other officers. how bout we get to do a roughing up of the cops after this? fair to me...
The sad thing is that...these people (police) are made to do this. I bet that female cop feels really humiliated for being on Youtube and labeled as that crazy lady. It was a big mistake to host those leaders in Toronto.
I am also one of only two people searched and subsequently arrested under the Public Works Protection Act, a law which was admitted today to have never existed. My legal team has documented evidence of this act being used against me specificaly so there can be no denying that police officials have used this "non-existent" law to search , arrest , detain and charge innocent people because it has happened to me. We as a public need to demand immediate actions and a public inquiry.
my name is Brian Brown , i am a 23 year old canadian citizen. I was directly beside jesse rosenfeld for no less than 3 hours time , in the stage 1 cage inside of the g20 detention centre on eastern avenue. I can attest to the injuries he sustained directly as i am an eyewitness to his treatment as well as the treatment of many others inside of the detention centre at all stages of the process.
I was at this very protest, it started with a peacefull orginized labour protest at Queens Park which was the designated protest area. We were pushed out of the park by charging horse brigades and a wall of riot police. So we regrouped and just like steve said ended up at the esplande in front of the novotel. We were arrested with no warning and were told we could leave but then were stopped from leaving. I was arrested and detained for twenty hours without a phone call. we were fed twice,
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This isn't the first time Canadian police have infringed on the right to protest. This problem needs to be addressed seriously.
Some of these cops clearly know this is wrong, and eventually you can only hope that they start to push back on this kind of thing. This is not a police state. Our government is supposed to be an incompetent and largely paralyzed block of backbiters who cant do anything to real citizens because they're too busy fighting each other. This needs to stop.
At the same time, i will say this. I am very, very happy that THIS is what constitutes a sad, bloody day for democracy in Canada. A few reporters get taken away, a few protesters get arrested, a peaceful demonstration is treated like an illegal one. Yes, all very bad things, but very mild compared to some of the things that happen in other countries. Nobody got shot with real bullets, nobody was trampled to death, and to be fair to the police, there were a few real troublemakers out there too.
a ctv producer was arrested and detained. also reported on ctv. people trying to get to their homes on queen street (and i'd assume other streets blockaded by riot squads) were arrested and detained. trying to go downtown is not a crime trying to report what you see is not a crime, trying to get to your house is not a crime, not allowing an officer to search you illegally is not a crime. what is a crime is making legislation that allows police to ignore these facts.
Wahhhh. I got hit with a club. Beat it. No one cares what you have to say. That is the great thing about this country! Great Job by the Toronto Police!
Canadians make great slaves. Just look at them, they cannot even manage there own lives. The State provides everything for our slaves shelter, food, schooling and programming, what they can say, whom and how many can assemble and where, we control EVERYTHING in our slaves lives and they take it.... for the "greater good" Ahh my sweet Slave Bitch's of Canada
Whether or not the G20 or some other organization of important people are here, we still have the right to protest peacefully.
Regardless of the G20, we should be allowed to use our voices and words to get a message across, and in no way should that be stopped in any circumstance.
Freedom of the press used to exist to allow people to report things with credibility. The journalists took priority over regular citizens as they were supposed to be immune to the confrontation or arrests/etc to an extent so they could report the truth of what's going on regardless of the situation.
@Kirilltraceur I kind of agree with you. However, the reason is that a journalist is just there as an impartial observer, where as all the other citizens are not. So they can't arrest a journalist because they were whatching a crowd of people.
They often do anyways, personally I think this is all a big fail on everyones part.
I am sorry to see this type of thing happen to anyone, but if it continues to happen where journalists are concerned, I hope more of them will start waking up to what is really going on.
If a building is on fire in downtown Toronto you could say you have a right to stand in front of the firemen who are trying to put out the flames. It's as stupid as coming downtown to taunt the police after the destruction of Saturday but it is your God given right to assemble where ever you please. The police were there to do a job, the people who assembled were there to disrupt. Biottom line, no one was injured seriously or killed. Tianemen Square it was not.
@hal722 the 20,000 some police withdrew and ALLOWED the 200 something anarchists to vandalize the city. then corporatist leaders could then say that the crowd was just violent hippies and making dipshits like you believe that they had no real message. they where protesting the austerity measures that the rich are imposing on everyone
@MikeRoch6969 20,000? At least I'm a dipshit who can count past ten. They were there for a cheap thrill Mikey. Police, who had a job to do, told them to disperse. I'm of the ilk that listens to police, especially ones with riot gear and guns.
@hal722 "If a building is on fire in downtown Toronto you could say you have a right to stand in front of the firemen who are trying to put out the flames"
ummm... no. that's just stupid! like saying free speech covers yelling FIRE in a cinema. you don't have the right to obstruct.
what were the cops trying to do when they attacked peaceful demonstrators?
@666norton420 They were trying to protect the integrity of the security fence. Stupid is going downtown and trying to show force against a group of police officers who were there doing a job. You were right with your comment "you don't have the right to obstruct".
CBC reported the same things Paikin reported, get a grip. CBC isn't "big media" they are Canada's public media.
CTV and CityTV are owned by the same company and are our "big media" they report the same things, over and over again, without investigative journalism.
While the vandals who used black bloc tactics were in the wrong, no questions asked-they in NO WAY represent the protesters as a whole. That should have in NO WAY effected the police opinion of general peaceful protests.
The protesters lost their right to protest when they committed violence. If you wore a black mask or not they all were destroying the city. Now you want the police to take you serious...fuck off I say. Friday they protested peacefully, but saturday you lost the right. But sunday you want the police to think your not violent. The police did the right thing. This reporter should have been arrested and beaten. What a loser.
Because the actions of a small, organized group with criminal intentions hiding among a much larger group of peaceful protesters justifies stripping all of them of their civil rights. Terrific logic. I guess all Muslims ARE guilty of the bombing of the twin towers. And all white Canadians ARE responsible for the mistreatment of natives in the residential school system.
Steve Paikin is a respected, moderate journalist, and he's reported what he saw with great professionalism.
This is why I never vote for anyone. I hate the Canadian government and I don't trust ANY politician as far as I can throw them. It seems to be more and more corrupt every day as much as it's corrupted already.
Really glad that Steve Paikin, a level headed, well known, centrist journalist, was on hand to document violence at the demonstration. He had no agenda other than to do his job as a reporter, and I trust his account.
Y'think? I've watched Steve Paikin for 20 years, and his reporting is consistently moderate and unbiased. Far as I'm concerned he's one of the best exemplars of journalistic ethics that Ontario has.
Be happy they didn't have to call into "commandos" like the IZZ had to do against those "activists" trying to destroy another 60 million plucky little Izz of the chosen racer sect in apartheid Palestine. Resistance is futile as long as the protocols of xion mutt sect own your banks, media and political whores.
Philosemitism is the new hollow cost religion & if you don't bow before the golden calf as a good sheeple unit & tax cattle contributor you will be taken care of.
@barcacrossesthealps and I've lived in America my whole life unfortunately, I've seen some violent, uncalled for shit from the authorities, and it makes you hold grudges.
Derek6563 2 weeks ago
@barcacrossesthealps kk I thought Toronto was a city I. The us cut me some slack I'm 12 for fucks sake so quit being a total jerk about it. America is just as bad in case you havent seen some of the peaceful protestors who were arrested, brutally assaulted and pepper sprayed for no reason.
Derek6563 2 weeks ago
We need Paitkin in America. May we have him? He reminds of Tim Russert.
BARCACROSSESTHEALPS 2 weeks ago
All I remember hearing on the major Canadian news stations were that the rioters started trashing stores and looting. All the anchors had similar responses, calling the G20 protesters anarchists, thieves, criminals and a menace to society. The mayor wanted to prevent any sort of investigation of what really happened. Thankfully, we have journalists like Steve Paikin to voice the truth. Democracy was never true in reality, but thanks to the internet its easier to find out the truth now-a-days.
abusivepersian 1 month ago
Whats Steve Paikin, the voice of reason ,doing here in this place?
crayonplane 5 months ago
i dont get this, peace protest and cops brind shield, protest brings rocks and bats, cops get guns and tear gas, when protest brings guns the cops bring machine guns, when protest brings machine guns, cops get bombs, when citizents get bombs cops call army for back up, when protest get ex armies the cops bring the special forces, when protests get ex special forces cops get armour cars with rpgs and more guns. that goes on and on.
darksantos1 6 months ago
@darksantos1 actually police are fairly limited. What you saw at G20 is the baddest they get. Most of what you mentioned will be dealt with the army. But hey, if get gangs like those in Mexico...then army is truly fucked.
finnsia 3 months ago
@finnsia ok thanks.
darksantos1 3 months ago
This is why I truly truly HATE America
Derek6563 6 months ago
@Derek6563 Its the G20, not the G1.
BARCACROSSESTHEALPS 2 weeks ago
@BARCACROSSESTHEALPS yes, but they were still american police in america
Derek6563 2 weeks ago
@Derek6563
Uh...I hate to break it to you, but the G20 was in TORONTO in 2010. Toronto is in Canada, ya know!
Haha! It's funny, really it is. You are so anti-American you don't even pay attention to the video. You just show up to bash a nation you've probably never been to.... enjoy life as an acephalic nematode.
BARCACROSSESTHEALPS 2 weeks ago
It accomplished one thing that's for sure. Those that wish to rule the audience, demonstrated their preparedness to do so. Even if the a portion of citizenry were used as extra's for their staged G20. As in threatre, a dress rehearsal.
Provocative, but wasn't that what it was meant to be?
Foreseeable1 7 months ago
Wherever the G20/Bilderbergers go, it seems, this SS behavior follows. You don't have to do ANYthing wrong; just being there is enough. Cops make up rules, laws or whatever as they go, attack for NO reason or have other cops create "reasons" to be as abusive as they like. The creatures meeting there are so rich, nothing of this can possibly touch them. And it's getting worse and worse.
Heyokat 10 months ago
There's a video one of the protesters made here on Youtube called, "Polizei verhaftet Demonstranten für garnichts (G20-2010)". Totally confirms what he says.
...There's no german in the video of you were worried.
Saoirse0Caela 11 months ago
I've always liked Paikin ever since I first started watching him when I was younger. He has integrity and he's downright honest. Personally, to me he does the best journalism and uses the perfect amount of detail when he speaks and when he reports.
RazrHack 1 year ago 4
There is still integrity in journalism in Canada. It appears democracy is dying in Canada, as are our rights and freedoms are encroached upon..
Shneeble100 1 year ago 2
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imperfectrecords 1 year ago
It sounds more lie Tineamin Square thanToronto.
Botie2 1 year ago
Why dont some of these victims sue the Toronto Police dept?
Botie2 1 year ago
@Botie2
Bureaucratic bullshit, no one knows who gave what orders.
Orwell you were right.
keklolgloat 1 year ago 2
News Flash - this is a lawless country. This is a police state. You think you have rights but you don't. If you ask for your rights, they project you as a terrorist and under that act, they look through girls bedroom, through clothes. They intercept your phone lines. Not just surveil, but intercept. you call somewhere, their bitch pretends to be operator picks up the phone and then transfers you to wrong number. Costing you minutes + money+ add bogus internet charges onphone. Surveillance abuz
1kash123 1 year ago
Steve Paiken is a good straightforward guy.
I wish he was the Prime Minister or in a leadership position.
But we all know that only scum, go into politics.
gundamWWW 1 year ago 4
I DO NOT HAVE TO RESPECT A PIECE OF SHIT, MOST POLICEMEN ARE A PIECE OF SHIT.. MY WIFE AND I WAS TAKEN FROM OUR MOTOR HOME IN JOLIET, ILLINOIS KNOCK US TO THE GROUND AND BEATEN BY 4 POLICEMEN ABOUT 15 OTHER PLOICEMEN STOOD AROUND AND DID NOT HELP US. AT ALL. BLEEDING ALL OVER WE ARE 66 & 67 Y.O.It's obvious that the police are the common enemy of the people POLICE ARE ARMED AND RETARDED THEY WILL HURT YOU ONLY THING ON MY RECORD IS A SPEEDING TICKET IN 1992
KYKIN44 1 year ago
@KYKIN44
Release the information to the media, find some local new reporter he will happily take your story.
lildread1 1 year ago
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Best Canadian journalist going.
G-20 was scripted theatre from start to finish.
Police have succeeded in losing all respect and inciting the public against them.
Gangbangers in tailored uniforms.
torontog20exposed.blogspotdotcom
TeamLibertyExpress 1 year ago
After this I have even more respect to Steve Paikin. Thank you for coming out with this information.
GiulianoLL 1 year ago 4
At first I though this was a story about a writer for The Guardian in the UK. And all of them deserve a good police kicking, because that is a PC fascist publication. But then I delved deeper and saw that this is a Canadian version. Seems a quality reporter and shame that this occurred in Canada, a country I always considered progressive and decent.
transonicbuoy1 1 year ago 3
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dickmoe99 1 year ago
@dickmoe99 Well until Harper came along we mostly WERE progressive and decent.
BoredomCorner 1 year ago
@BoredomCorner Which issue do you consider progressive that the conservatives regressed on?
Re5Publica 1 year ago
@Re5Publica How about our civil liberties?
BoredomCorner 11 months ago
@BoredomCorner Which specific policies of the Conservative government encroach upon civil liberties we had before they formed a government?
Re5Publica 11 months ago
goodbye civil rights... this is the beginning of the very end.
tmpopescu 1 year ago 4
@tmpopescu
the truth is they were already gone...you have few if any rights
dickmoe99 1 year ago
These officers need to be charged and tried for this. But of course, it will never happen.
narutokun19 1 year ago 3
The people breaking windows were police out of uniform. They were taking advantage of the situation.
TheRuruGuru 1 year ago 3
The officer who attacked the journalist should be charged, jailed and fired.
johnds1963 1 year ago
The police treat non-middle class folks like this all the time and it goes unreported. Now, they are taking away civil liberties from middle class folks as well... this is a chilling indication of the state of our country.
dutchlover0 1 year ago
This is the New World Order that the "conspiracy theorists" warned you about.
phubans 1 year ago
@phubans
No, this is the coercive state that radical analysts, scholars & anarchists warned us about. Nothing at all to do with the Bilderberg fantasies of chemtrail sniffing fruitcakes like Alex Jones.
CapitalistHolocaust 1 year ago
@CapitalistHolocaust Semantics, semantics, semantics... At any rate, this has to be stopped.
phubans 1 year ago
The people breaking windows were police.
Peaceisover 1 year ago 4
@Peaceisover prove it or STFU
bugmyass 1 year ago
The people breaking windows were police.
Peaceisover 1 year ago 5
This guy lost me when he started speaking out of his ass about the black bloc harming property "and people", the latter part of which is just a lie. He then made it worse by talking up the middle class like a two-bit politician.
babygotblown 1 year ago
Police brutality in Canada... Impossible.. (sarcasm) Happens more often then we think, we hear VERY seldom when this happens. Are we sure the reporter (Jesse) didn't have a "heart attack" or bad cramps which made him keel over.
mtaj1981 1 year ago
What a great interview My son was one of the people sitting on the ground with peace signs up and he got his ribs broken!
BellevueParkTV 1 year ago 3
Dissenting opinions are acceptable in democracies as long as they stay within accepted discourse parameters. Discourse that goes to the heart of democracies and the government will respond violently. In this case class, wealth, class structure and class struggle. Western democracies do not accept economic democracy - in fact not even political democracy given the strong impact of money on electoral outcomes. So, still think we live in a democracy?
7jerryv7 1 year ago
@Chunks. I see you have a hard time getting past 4 letter words. Fact is that a criminal offense means, as a licensed professional (which I know YOU are not) you can lose your license and thereby your ability to earn a income. With a ciminal offence, as a student you are then not able to choice careers that require licenses. If any of those "trumped up charges" stick it can financially RUIN lives. READ the stories. Eye wash? A sign with a possible sharp edge are WEAPONS? U GROW up.
Fayclis 1 year ago
@Fayclis no you
bigchunks83 1 year ago
As someone more used to hearing American news, this show of journalistic integrity blows my mind ^^
megamarsvin 1 year ago 20
@megamarsvin Steve Paikin, marry me!!!! have you ever watched his show??? it is awesome.
gracyelala 1 year ago
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Ok, I blow up Your car, shit all over Your house, and fuck Your shit up big time. Then I send some hippie asshole to sit on your front lawn to protest some bullshit, While You're frickin house (city) is in ruins, while the world leaders are in town!?!. Don't think so, you idiot cowards.
bigchunks83 1 year ago
@bigchunks83 great metaphor... idiot coward.
lavinus 1 year ago
IF this is how some individual police treat Journalists guess how they treat civilians when no media are around to report!!!
I think that some police are their own worst enemies!
bobisnohere1 1 year ago 3
The Police were given extraodinary powers by McGuinty and his Cabinet to RUIN average citizens lives. These citizens and students could LOSE either their current or future CAREERS due to this misuse of POWER obtaining a "criminal" record for being in Cities streets? NOT a JOKE and NOT to be taken Lightly by ANYONE. Thanks Steve for speaking the TRUTH and reporting things as they really were. WE cannot ALLOW civic rights to be stomped on by the very people who are supposed to protect them.
Fayclis 1 year ago
@Fayclis grow up
bigchunks83 1 year ago
@naughtybeast: What riot? There was no riot at that location. Repeating a lie does not make it true.
SuperiorShore 1 year ago 3
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jaba987 1 year ago
Jesse didn't deserve to be beaten, but he should have allowed the police officer to do their job and not constantly repeat himself by asking the same thing over and over again. Antagonizing police officers during a riot is not the best thing he could have done.
naughtybeast 1 year ago
@naughtybeast How exactly is *ASKING* someone who is *HOLDING YOU AGAINST YOUR WILL* preventing them from doing their job?
He's a reporter - he was reporting. He wasn't preventing any cop from doing anything.
northsun99 1 year ago 5
@northsun99 He didn't prevent them from doing their job. What i said was he should have allowed them to do their job without constantly saying the same thing over and over again. Its very annoying and in the middle of a riot antagonizing police officers is not the best thing he could have done.
naughtybeast 1 year ago
@naughtybeast The police were holding him in custody, so he should have been asking them why they were holding him. One cop took his ID badge, then a third cop assaulted him. If you listened to Paikin's account of the story, it wasn't a riot-- it was a peaceful assembly.
rickthaluddite 1 year ago
@rickthaluddite There was a riot in progress when the man was beaten. He did ask them why and they apparently answered once, then he kept asking the same thing over and over. I did listen to Paikin's account, and to reiterate it was peaceful until the police provoked the crowd.
naughtybeast 1 year ago
Copied right from our charter of rights.
Fundamental freedoms
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(a) freedom of conscience and religion;
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.
Hiddenrage1 1 year ago
Government lackie
timeknowsfilms 1 year ago
This is a very important interview. Paikin is a NWO shill and his message here will likely never be on TV.
I was shocked that all the media was threatened with arrest but not surprised that the mainstream media actually fucked off instead of staying and doing their job to inform the public of what was happening right to the end. Journalists know, better than anyone, they have no fear of getting arrested for doing their job in a democracy. Our freedom has been usurped and will not be seen on TV.
LieWizard 1 year ago 7
cops lie on a regular bases , its spills from they mouth like water from a tap
iicce 1 year ago 3
Harper has to go!
MustacheVerra 1 year ago 6
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he said the crowd was trapped with no where to go at , then he said at 3"55 that they left and went down the road, so, hes not telling the truth, he said they had no where to go, but they really did... so which is it? were they trapped or not? so they were not protestors? 4"26 so what are they, oh wait, then at 3"49 he says they are, so what the hell is this guy talking about???? he can't even make up if they are protestors or not. There's no credibility here.....
film35m 1 year ago
@film35m
they are obviously protesting. you are making mountains out of molehills, the point is that it was a manifestation. if steve doesn't know how to label it that doesn't make him a liar, only inaccurate.
Jorgecatolica 1 year ago
@film35m
At one time everyone there at Spadina + Queen was boxed and was prevented from leaving. Until they were Boxed in they were relatively free... Only Nazi governments prevent protests.... is that what you support
shortsighted 1 year ago 2
@film35m
They had no where to go if they wanted to protest.
This is what our Charter of rights clearly says.
Fundamental freedoms
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(a) freedom of conscience and religion;
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.
Hiddenrage1 1 year ago
this one apparently is also having an error. Anybody else having that problem?
TheJourney000 1 year ago
This is really accurate, I was standing with this guy behind the pillar, helped him try to find a new battery for his black berry. However I don't remember the police saying anything to the crowd, and in my opinion if you're being a smart alec to police you deserve something like what jesse got. It's funny how he calls him scrony.
TKKPicturesPresents 1 year ago
When the tyranny becomes oppressive to the point where the people are treated as animals the necessary response is a Molotov cocktail. Those pigs are the brown shirts and nothing else.
OzzybanOswald 1 year ago
Evidently as far as the police were concerned, the people were the enemy regardless of how peaceful they were. It's the same at every summit.
blackiron60 1 year ago 5
I submitted my petition at chiefblair.resignnow.ca
themiscountess 1 year ago 4
I've become so disenfranchised by voting. I don't vote for liberals or commu...conservatives, and I feel voting for NDP would just shift the nonsense to another party.
But after this garbage, I want to vote. But for what? Voting just to get rid of an idiot is like voting for John Kerry to get rid of GWB, or voting for Obama just to not have Sarah Palin as VP. Christ I feel so powerless. Welcome to Canada
piecharthosen 1 year ago 2
We, the undersigned, call on William Blair to resign or be removed from his post as Toronto Chief Of Police. chiefblair.resignnow.ca
TheRuffianAngel 1 year ago 115
@TheRuffianAngel Everyone should sign that petition.
BluEyesMelanie 1 year ago 4
@TheRuffianAngel The comments on this petition almost made me cry. some people were just going about their daily business and were hurt by police. I have a friend who knows some of the undercovers who did the hammering of windows and burning of the cars. It was all set up for the media. Please get this Bill Blair to resign becasue I am afraid of what will happen next from him
TheAmandaMiles 1 year ago 2
@TheAmandaMiles your so called friend is full of shit peoples who were in the black bloc were not pigs
bugmyass 1 year ago
@TheRuffianAngel ...The petition should ACTUALLY be for Stephen Harper to resign or be removed from his post as Prime Minister of Canada. He was the source of this "Reign of Terror".
Pipe61 1 year ago 3
@Pipe61 I agree. I think that should be next. I am sooo gonna campaing this next election against all of Harper's party people. ICK!
KatieAlsop 1 year ago 2
@TheRuffianAngel Did you know that some of the orders given by Police Chief Blair were so awful that some police (many) were actually crying. Everyone should sign this petition. chiefblair.resignnow.ca
KatieAlsop 1 year ago 2
@TheRuffianAngel I have been reading the comments on this petition and i started to cry. Please everyone try and do something about this horrible change in Canada. OMG I had hoped Canada would show the world how to do a G20 properly. But $1 billion spent when every other country only spends about $30 million? And Canada is now the laughing stock of the world because it claims to be good on human rights but the TV coverage shows civil rights in Canada don't exist.
BluEyesMelanie 1 year ago
A 2008 declaration signed by then-Minister of Public Security Avi Dichter and Canadian Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day created an arrangement for Canada and Israel. According to the Israeli ministry's website, it allowed the countries to "share knowledge, experience, expertise, information, research, and best practices" and "facilitate technical exchange cooperation, including education, training, and exercises. Read Jimmy Johnson's@ electronic intifada. Also Jeff Halper.
givebirthathome 1 year ago
Mitch your a Nazi
Brash1959 1 year ago
MOST (that's 90%) of the arrests were not justified. Cops had nothing better to do and never arrested those that burnt down a car and smashed windows. Talk about hypocrisy!
arielc1ful 1 year ago 2
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anyone who was arrested or detained deserved it. Hippie protester weekend warriors...go smoke more pot and fight the man. idiots. Messed with the bull and got the horns, now cry about it.
MitchT00 1 year ago
@MitchT00 Are you suggesting that blindly following our fearless leaders is always the best option? Without exception? Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, my friend. As Plato said, "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Surely you can understand the people's desire to maintain Canada's constitutional rights.
qphox 1 year ago
@qphox Mitch is obviously a Nazi :)
Brash1959 1 year ago
Sounds to me like they needed to make some arrests because they hadn't caught any of the rioters earlier.. so they just grabbed any group of people they came across... and arrested them to show that they were arresting 'someone' to blame for the G20 disaster/window breakages/car fires!!
hiiain 1 year ago 3
@hiiain That makes sense
KatieAlsop 1 year ago
O Canada, we all need to stand on guard for thee.
People! Remember to vote next time!
curlwhirl 1 year ago
@curlwhirl Vote for who? This would have happened no matter who was in pwr.
StylZ905 1 year ago 2
I still can't believe that all Media call that Democracy 8)))))))) Once again look in to the Dictionary and figure out what democracy definition is. Democracy doesn't exist anymore it became Utopian term long time ago...
Greenjah81 1 year ago
If this were happening in Iran we'd be saying, "Wow, look at what an oppressive government, repressing freedom of speach." Now it 's happening here. Last time I checked the charter of rights gives people the right to peaceful assembly. (I'm not talking about the black block tactic hooligans) Assaulting people just standing in the street and journalists documenting it is just that - assault. The officers involved should be investigated for the purpose of laying charges and fired.
hunkatiel 1 year ago
This is so disgusting
dontreadmyusername0 1 year ago
I guess you guys never learned anything positive from Jacob Two-Two.
loonmaniac 1 year ago
same thing happened in pittsburgh last year- pitt students on their campus chanting lets go pitt- students curious at the video game like massive police presence in full riot gear literally outside their dorms on a friday evening/absolutely no political agenda/ same as described above. i cannot see where the west differs from iran and it pains me to say that.
jeanned1010 1 year ago
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This «police state » is among us for quite some time but the feminist have done everything on their might to deny that reality. Wake up folks. You've seen their true colors in Toronto during the G-20 meetings. Since more than 20 years, these thugs could come to your house, no warrant needed and put you under arrest on a simple allegation, no proof needed, of domestic violence. We have try to allert the public and nobody would listen. Now, they are at your front door. Would you listen ?
AdamCamille 1 year ago
w00t
paikin ftw
NikolatheMagi 1 year ago
They (police) should have "roughed up" the anarchists who stole the limelight from the peaceful protesters.I bet most of those masked hooligans don't even live in Toronto.
wabdinur 1 year ago
@wabdinur there is growing evidence with all the video coming out that many of these "black bloc" types were actually police officers. agents provocateurs inciting violence for a reason to put areas on lockdown. dont believe me? /watch?v=aeG_t9abaSU&feature=player_embedded . these are mostly undercover plainclothes, but there is a black clad man with black bandana and backpack who also congregates with the other officers. how bout we get to do a roughing up of the cops after this? fair to me...
xbuttfacex 1 year ago
@xbuttfacex
You just might be right. I'm really disappointed with the police for doing that. I saw this one:
watch?v=cqiba2m4mbw&feature=related
wabdinur 1 year ago
@wabdinur not to mention the INSANE woman cop at 00:20 of that vid
xbuttfacex 1 year ago
@xbuttfacex
The sad thing is that...these people (police) are made to do this. I bet that female cop feels really humiliated for being on Youtube and labeled as that crazy lady. It was a big mistake to host those leaders in Toronto.
wabdinur 1 year ago
People have been killed by rubber bullets.
One hits you in the eye, and it can kill you.
EMPIREofPUPPETS 1 year ago
So what do you think of the song i wrote and just made a video for and put on my channel? I will wait for your reply
rgold36 1 year ago
tbh I don't care what some..know what, ill put it nicely. TRN doesn't look like a very good news center.
s4spencer 1 year ago
great interview!
ohginatube 1 year ago 2
OMG tell those stupid riots to calm down
5Doum 1 year ago
I am also one of only two people searched and subsequently arrested under the Public Works Protection Act, a law which was admitted today to have never existed. My legal team has documented evidence of this act being used against me specificaly so there can be no denying that police officials have used this "non-existent" law to search , arrest , detain and charge innocent people because it has happened to me. We as a public need to demand immediate actions and a public inquiry.
4earthfreedom 1 year ago
my name is Brian Brown , i am a 23 year old canadian citizen. I was directly beside jesse rosenfeld for no less than 3 hours time , in the stage 1 cage inside of the g20 detention centre on eastern avenue. I can attest to the injuries he sustained directly as i am an eyewitness to his treatment as well as the treatment of many others inside of the detention centre at all stages of the process.
4earthfreedom 1 year ago 3
``whether the g20 is here or not, we dont necessarily give up on all our civil rights ``
darksideofthenation 1 year ago
I was at this very protest, it started with a peacefull orginized labour protest at Queens Park which was the designated protest area. We were pushed out of the park by charging horse brigades and a wall of riot police. So we regrouped and just like steve said ended up at the esplande in front of the novotel. We were arrested with no warning and were told we could leave but then were stopped from leaving. I was arrested and detained for twenty hours without a phone call. we were fed twice,
rumblefishxxxl 1 year ago 4
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rgold36 1 year ago
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rgold36 1 year ago
this is one step short of being another bloody sunday :/
MaestroAnnie 1 year ago
Canadian gov is no better than any other fascist gov todate. I am sickend to my stomach right now of the affairs that took place this past weekend.
chucktaylorcss 1 year ago
Great interview. Thanks for getting out information we will never hear on mainstream propaganda machine.
highlanderhillfarm 1 year ago 39
@highlanderhillfarm ya man! down with the corporate media man! PFfffttttt...get a life.
Gkritz 1 year ago
im glad that the police cars got torched, they beat up the poor guy
xDemonPrincex 1 year ago 2
lololololol
those police are so proud that they could beat up people
imma gut them alive, on TV, let;s see those anti-social losers's face now!!
SpicyHam 1 year ago
we were screaming to the cops to let us go home actually, and the did not let us.
the condo dwellers were spitting on us and calling on the police to beat us.
Nostos5 1 year ago 2
This isn't the first time Canadian police have infringed on the right to protest. This problem needs to be addressed seriously.
Some of these cops clearly know this is wrong, and eventually you can only hope that they start to push back on this kind of thing. This is not a police state. Our government is supposed to be an incompetent and largely paralyzed block of backbiters who cant do anything to real citizens because they're too busy fighting each other. This needs to stop.
Etimos 1 year ago
At the same time, i will say this. I am very, very happy that THIS is what constitutes a sad, bloody day for democracy in Canada. A few reporters get taken away, a few protesters get arrested, a peaceful demonstration is treated like an illegal one. Yes, all very bad things, but very mild compared to some of the things that happen in other countries. Nobody got shot with real bullets, nobody was trampled to death, and to be fair to the police, there were a few real troublemakers out there too.
Etimos 1 year ago
a ctv producer was arrested and detained. also reported on ctv. people trying to get to their homes on queen street (and i'd assume other streets blockaded by riot squads) were arrested and detained. trying to go downtown is not a crime trying to report what you see is not a crime, trying to get to your house is not a crime, not allowing an officer to search you illegally is not a crime. what is a crime is making legislation that allows police to ignore these facts.
simonversusgod 1 year ago
Wahhhh. I got hit with a club. Beat it. No one cares what you have to say. That is the great thing about this country! Great Job by the Toronto Police!
Wegz2 1 year ago
@Wegz2 I wanted to vote you down but my mouse played tricks on me. I hope you are being sarcastic otherwise you are no better than the nwo goons.
wewhippedemdidntwe 1 year ago
Canadians make great slaves. Just look at them, they cannot even manage there own lives. The State provides everything for our slaves shelter, food, schooling and programming, what they can say, whom and how many can assemble and where, we control EVERYTHING in our slaves lives and they take it.... for the "greater good" Ahh my sweet Slave Bitch's of Canada
putittogether 1 year ago
We are nothing but slaves.
Cops, are slaves with shields and sticks.
SLAVES!! SHAME!!!
SHAME!!!
(of course, i don't expect this to hurt any real slave's feelings)
SpicyHam 1 year ago
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putittogether 1 year ago
Their point was whether the G20 is here or not?....what does that mean?
guyincognito84 1 year ago
@guyincognito84
Whether or not the G20 or some other organization of important people are here, we still have the right to protest peacefully.
Regardless of the G20, we should be allowed to use our voices and words to get a message across, and in no way should that be stopped in any circumstance.
rush68 1 year ago
why do journalists take priority over the rest of the citizens?
Kirilltraceur 1 year ago
@Kirilltraceur
Freedom of the press used to exist to allow people to report things with credibility. The journalists took priority over regular citizens as they were supposed to be immune to the confrontation or arrests/etc to an extent so they could report the truth of what's going on regardless of the situation.
rush68 1 year ago
@rush68
Freedom of press is meaningless without the freedom of speech.
IN turn, freedom is speech is meaningless without the freedom of thought.
And there is no freedom of thought without a doubt.
truth is not to be found from the mouths of a couple individuals.
Kirilltraceur 1 year ago
@Kirilltraceur I kind of agree with you. However, the reason is that a journalist is just there as an impartial observer, where as all the other citizens are not. So they can't arrest a journalist because they were whatching a crowd of people.
They often do anyways, personally I think this is all a big fail on everyones part.
Tiparith 1 year ago
he uses the organically. way too much
afg4ever 1 year ago
I am sorry to see this type of thing happen to anyone, but if it continues to happen where journalists are concerned, I hope more of them will start waking up to what is really going on.
trombondo 1 year ago
send $5 ???.fuck yourself con artist
Garrys300 1 year ago
well i hope canadians learned a valuable lesson from getting their peaceful asses kicked by these corporatist pigs....DON'T VOTE CONSERVATIVE!!!!!
MikeRoch6969 1 year ago 2
If a building is on fire in downtown Toronto you could say you have a right to stand in front of the firemen who are trying to put out the flames. It's as stupid as coming downtown to taunt the police after the destruction of Saturday but it is your God given right to assemble where ever you please. The police were there to do a job, the people who assembled were there to disrupt. Biottom line, no one was injured seriously or killed. Tianemen Square it was not.
hal722 1 year ago
@hal722 the 20,000 some police withdrew and ALLOWED the 200 something anarchists to vandalize the city. then corporatist leaders could then say that the crowd was just violent hippies and making dipshits like you believe that they had no real message. they where protesting the austerity measures that the rich are imposing on everyone
MikeRoch6969 1 year ago
@MikeRoch6969 20,000? At least I'm a dipshit who can count past ten. They were there for a cheap thrill Mikey. Police, who had a job to do, told them to disperse. I'm of the ilk that listens to police, especially ones with riot gear and guns.
hal722 1 year ago
@hal722 "If a building is on fire in downtown Toronto you could say you have a right to stand in front of the firemen who are trying to put out the flames"
ummm... no. that's just stupid! like saying free speech covers yelling FIRE in a cinema. you don't have the right to obstruct.
what were the cops trying to do when they attacked peaceful demonstrators?
;d
666norton420 1 year ago 2
@666norton420 They were trying to protect the integrity of the security fence. Stupid is going downtown and trying to show force against a group of police officers who were there doing a job. You were right with your comment "you don't have the right to obstruct".
hal722 1 year ago
@hal722 ya, they weren't obstructing anything!
also, are you against social disobedience? it's a right we all have! you're apparent "just let the gov do what it wants" attitude is sickening!
;d
666norton420 1 year ago
Why is the host shaking all the time?
wwwiansmithca 1 year ago
POLICE TRAINING SESSION--- SHAME
sarahlaurenparrish 1 year ago
Excellent report. Thank you. We're all in big trouble.
JohnnyHorton 1 year ago 5
Hey man before you want people to take you seriously you should learn how to write coherent sentences.
crubeling 1 year ago
If they were there protestin...no they were not they just gathering...lol
TV ontario is not the big media in ontario it ctv and cbc...loser
niccrant 1 year ago
@niccrant
CBC reported the same things Paikin reported, get a grip. CBC isn't "big media" they are Canada's public media.
CTV and CityTV are owned by the same company and are our "big media" they report the same things, over and over again, without investigative journalism.
While the vandals who used black bloc tactics were in the wrong, no questions asked-they in NO WAY represent the protesters as a whole. That should have in NO WAY effected the police opinion of general peaceful protests.
rush68 1 year ago
The protesters lost their right to protest when they committed violence. If you wore a black mask or not they all were destroying the city. Now you want the police to take you serious...fuck off I say. Friday they protested peacefully, but saturday you lost the right. But sunday you want the police to think your not violent. The police did the right thing. This reporter should have been arrested and beaten. What a loser.
niccrant 1 year ago
@niccrant
Because the actions of a small, organized group with criminal intentions hiding among a much larger group of peaceful protesters justifies stripping all of them of their civil rights. Terrific logic. I guess all Muslims ARE guilty of the bombing of the twin towers. And all white Canadians ARE responsible for the mistreatment of natives in the residential school system.
Steve Paikin is a respected, moderate journalist, and he's reported what he saw with great professionalism.
Llyranon 1 year ago 2
My Country and my City makes me said to to be from Canada. We all need to wake
up be for its to late PLEASE
ryankilleleagh 1 year ago 2
human nature dictates that in locker rooms in many cop shops, there is ferocious pro and con arguing concerning this mess!
acerb45666555 1 year ago
This is why I never vote for anyone. I hate the Canadian government and I don't trust ANY politician as far as I can throw them. It seems to be more and more corrupt every day as much as it's corrupted already.
RogueTheElfWarrior1 1 year ago
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I would like 5 minutes alone with the cop that hit Jesse Rosenfeld.The cowardly
bastard did this while Jesse was being held by two other cops.What gives this
dispicable person the right to do this.He needs to be taught a lesson.
dixinlaval 1 year ago
Really glad that Steve Paikin, a level headed, well known, centrist journalist, was on hand to document violence at the demonstration. He had no agenda other than to do his job as a reporter, and I trust his account.
Llyranon 1 year ago 38
@Llyranon Pakikin centrist? That's a laugh.
JaysCyYoung1 1 year ago
@JaysCyYoung1
Y'think? I've watched Steve Paikin for 20 years, and his reporting is consistently moderate and unbiased. Far as I'm concerned he's one of the best exemplars of journalistic ethics that Ontario has.
Llyranon 1 year ago 3
Be happy they didn't have to call into "commandos" like the IZZ had to do against those "activists" trying to destroy another 60 million plucky little Izz of the chosen racer sect in apartheid Palestine. Resistance is futile as long as the protocols of xion mutt sect own your banks, media and political whores.
Philosemitism is the new hollow cost religion & if you don't bow before the golden calf as a good sheeple unit & tax cattle contributor you will be taken care of.
Onward to RFID heaven!
charliebarosio 1 year ago
Wow. Hey Steve. Well done.
TheRuffianAngel 1 year ago
Every day takes finguring out all over again how to fucking live.
jokezz8s 1 year ago
I was across the street from Steve Paikin before I was arrested, everything in this video is true.
timfop 1 year ago 3
This is war.
laurentcroque 1 year ago