getting detained while trying to video other people getting detained

Full disclosure: we were told to "move" but not where or how far. I saw two people getting stopped and searched and paused to video them. I had barely hit record when I was asked "Did you not hear the LRAD?" (sound cannon)... which from what I've since heard was never used. Either way, I definitely never heard anything other than a handful of bike cops telling people to "move." I had moved quite far from where that happened and had no further instructions until this.


transcript / commentary: ("Him" is the officer)

Him: Do you have anything on you that can hurt me?
Me: No.
Him: Do you have anything on you?
Me: No.
Him: Did you not hear the LRAD message?
Me: Pardon me?
Him: The LRAD message?
Me: What was the LRAD message?
Him: This is no longer a peaceful assembly [muffled -- I think he said "everyone was told to leave"]... [feels my sunglasses in my jacket's breast pocket] Glasses?
Me: Sunglasses
Him: Nothing else on you?
Me: No.
Him: Okay, are you now leaving?
Me: Yes, I will leave, if you're telling me to leave I'll leave. Which way do I go?
Him: Just keep going that way [pointing Eastwards down Dundas]
Another officer, heckling: Keep going buddy

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Tags:

• G20
• protest
• AGO
• police
• state
• toronto
• ontario
• canada
• 2010