Toni MacAfee Arrested

"It's certainly a drummed up charge," said Jeff Callaghan, the union's Atlantic director. "When the cops grabbed her, she was actually two centimetres from a curb, so it wasn't a matter of blocking traffic," Callaghan said.

Toni MacAfee, education and organization officer for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, was arrested behind the Westin Nova Scotian Hotel shortly after 8 a.m.

"They actually reached out and grabbed her and pulled her back — pulled her towards the street. There are lots of witnesses who saw it and we have the whole thing on tape." Photos show MacAfee had her hands pinned behind her back and "three, large, male police officers" on top of her.
During the protest, Callaghan said officers "were pushing people" and one cop reached into the crowd and grabbed his flag.

"Toni MacAfee is well-respected, well-regarded by all within the labour movement throughout Atlantic Canada and is someone who is looked up to in the trade union and community organizations with which she has been very active for many years."

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[smorgdonkey]

"assaulted one of the officers"

Yeah...typical BS.

[Liquidtree]

We need more people like you Toni!!

[Neurolanis]

She had protested around the world and only here in NS, Canada, was she arrested. Fact.

[marcusmeuto2]

@Zeerotoo Control what people can and can't say, (even to police) and it's all over. Might as well put the up Hammer and Sickle flag. Toni was NOT resisting and was complying, by moving away. If she said something to the police and that's ''resisting'', Canada IS a fascist controlled country. Is Toni now in a government run gulag?

[marcusmeuto2]

@Zeerotoo Like I said, ''May have.." I don't know for sure. Do You? However, you may be right about that being a ''form'' of resistance. But I hope not. If people in Canada have lost the right to say what they want, even to police, then Canadians have a had their liberties taken away at some point. You should be very concerned with that. We're losing them here in the States all the time and our current socialist president might agree with taking the right to free speech away.

[Zeerotoo]

@marcusmeuto2 Being mouthy is a form of resisting. Its called verbal non-compliance. She refused to move when requested. Just because shes well known and is in the higher archy of support groups, doesn't mean she can do whatever she wants.

[quargxo]

Yup, its true.

[marcusmeuto2]

Watch, frame by frame. She was pulled backwards by a cop. She was not resisting. May have been mouthy, but that's not resisting.