http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/06/27/panic-outrage-as-police-detain-hundre...
Riot police detained hundreds of people for several hours in the rain at the intersection of Queen Street and Spadina Avenue on Sunday before arresting a few and releasing the rest.
The detained group included protesters, several journalists, many pedestrians who just happened to be passing by and at least a couple of puppies. you can see people shaking in the rain being detained in plastic cuff restraints.
The group was made to stand in the rain for well over three hours without food, water, access to bathrooms, rainwear or shelter.
Police did not issue a warning before corralling the group in a thin strip just north of the intersection and afterward refused to explain why they were being detained.
"Mass arrests are illegal," Natalie Des Rosiers, general counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, said last night. "They are contrary to the presumption of innocence. They are arbitrary arrest. They should not be doing that. They know they should not be doing that."
After a time, police began selecting particular members of the crowd for arrest. At around 8 p.m., the soaked and shivering detainees began volunteering to be arrested so they could get out of the rain.
Eventually there were two large groups of people, one in cuffs, each person with an officer next to them; and a second in a large group hemmed in by dozens of officers in full riot gear. Most of the people were in shorts or pants and T-shirts and tank tops.
"I'm freezing cold. We have no food, no water, no shelter and I've had to pee for the last five hours," Sammy Katz, a man detained in the intersection, told CP24 by phone from inside the corral.
Another detainee said he had a panic attack and was allowed to leave.
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FIRE BILL BLAIR!!!!
http://chiefblair.resignnow.ca/
Amnesty International press release on Police misuse of powers during G20
http://www.amnesty.ca/resource_centre/news/view.php?article=5453&c=Resour...
Caring about a deaf man and a amputee isn't mainstream..lets worry about the property damage right..the police were given orders to stand down and not arrest "Black bloc" when they had the chance..16,000 police couldn't apprehend 100 criminals and protect the public and property?
http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/joe_warmington/2010/06/30/14564416....
In a past summit in montebello Quebec, Police were caught dressing up in black disguises as anarchists and were instigating violence..the term is known as "agent provocateurs" when you have violence, it justifies how much money spent.. it aired on CBC..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAfzUOx53Rg
Innocent Deaf man arrested and not given a sign language translator while being detained..
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/toronto/deaf-man-arrested-in...
A 57-year-old amputee was "brutalized" and "humiliated" by police patrolling the G20 summit when they confiscated his prosthetic leg, labelled it a "weapon" and ordered him to "hop" into a paddy wagon.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/police%20yanked%20prosthetic%20ampute...
Police deliberately lying.. misleading the public on expanded security ..passed the law in secret
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/police-admit-deliberatel...
Police admit no five-metre rule existed on security fence law 'I was trying to keep the criminals out,' police chief bill blair stated
**Police say they were given "do not engage" orders in response to Black Bloc:
The first ever mainstream media article exposing a stand-down order appeared in the Toronto Sun this morning, with Joe Warmington reporting that "there was "a clear order from the command centre saying 'Do not engage' ", referring to the covert official allowing of the "Black Bloc" to rampage through Toronto to provide the pretext for the later assault of the peaceful protesting citizens on Saturday June 26, 2010 ("Cops had hands 'cuffed - Could have moved on Black Bloc anarchists - but brass ordered them not to.
http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/joe_warmington/2010/06/30/14564416....
KNOW YOUR FACTS..
Ben Franklin quote: People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
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Toronto Police detain & process Black Bloc? Spadina Queen Public G8 G20 Summit rain Sammy Katz CP24by baddermopho5,544 views
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