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2 May 2007, Cops Use Excessive Force @ Barrick Gold's AGM

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Uploaded by on May 18, 2007

Sakura Saunders (CorpWatch, USA) and Natalie Lowrey (Friends of the Earth Australia) peacefully hand out Alternative Barrick Annual reports to shareholders entering Barrick Gold's AGM in Toronto, Canada. Cops move in and use excessive force to arrest Sakura Saunders.

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  • @jerv41 actually, I found out later that there is a strip of public property there. the cops lied to me.

  • @missnluvyou2010 you say that I used passive resistance like that is a bad thing. Yes, I went limp. Yes, I was taken by surprise. Yes, I was illegally searched by the police (they are supposed to have females search me). What's worse is that the guy that walked up and asked them to not use excessive force - HE GOT STRIPED SEARCH. (And btw – strip searching is a nice way of saying that he was forced to get naked and grab his ankles while they searched his anus).

  • Um, since when is standing in a sidewalk trespassing? She wasn't threatening anyone. Why did police feel this person should be arrested?

  • how did this creep pass the personality test, imagine if his wife pissed him off???

  • The question here is why she was arrested (aside from the obvious resisting arrest) the force used was exactly proportional to the resistance received. This was practically textbook. Where she was standing when the officer placed his hand on her is significant.

  • looks good on you !

  • I'm so sorry this happened to you ... the cops were way over the top here ...

  • hey sakura ... ya gotta start wearing the ol' black suit when confronting these guys ... I mean the Bay St Suits ...

  • Bravo Sakura..... no one still knows what point you were trying to get across other than you looking like a fool. Hopefully you'll learn from this experience.

  • Then you have to post your video on Youtube to try and gain sympathy and ride the wave of bleeding heart liberalism to become a 30 second celebrity for whatever mindless "cause" they are representing. Looks to me the police used just the amount of force needed to effect the arrest without injuring themselves or poor little Sakura, who by the way continued to use passive resistance after being cuffed and continued to run her mouth.

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