There was no reason for the cops to close ranks that day though, people were not near the fence, there was not black bloq there, mostly just people hanging around on the street. The whole event was a clusterf*ck, it was almost surreal.
Toronto police swear off G20 kettling tactic
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There was no reason for the cops to close ranks that day though, people were not near the fence, there was not black bloq there, mostly just people hanging around on the street. The whole event was a clusterf*ck, it was almost surreal.
I dunno, the jail they had setup was pretty damn nasty, I think I would rather get beat up.
One year later: still no G20 answers
On Monday, the Ontario attorney general’s ministry released statistics showing more than 1,100 people were detained during the G20 summit, 317 were charged and only 24 people have been convicted so far.
On Tuesday, Premier Dalton McGuinty again rejected any thought of a full provincial inquiry. Instead, he said it’s up to Harper to call for such a probe because the summit was a federal government initiative.
Also on Tuesday, Ontario Ombudsman André Marin said in his annual report that secrecy within the provincial government has been growing for years and culminated with the “granddaddy of all secret manoeuvres” during the summit, “which was the non-publication of a (provincial) regulation which extended extraordinary, likely illegal, powers to the police during the G20.”
That same day, the RCMP confirmed it is investigating allegations that Harper’s cabinet misappropriated millions in G8 money spent in the Parry-Sound-Muskoka riding of Treasury Board President Tony Clement.
“Like a banana republic” is how Ruby describes our inability to get answers a full year after the summit.
Ruby will be on a panel of experts Thursday evening discussing the G20 controversy. The event, entitled “G20: Lessons Learned, Messages Lost,” is sponsored by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Canadian Labour Congress and the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights. It starts at 6:30 p.m. at Bennett Lecture Hall at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law.
Since the summit ended, there have been more than half a dozen small “reviews” by police and government agencies and boards into specific aspects of the summit. But none of these reviews has the mandate of conducting an overall probe into all facets of the summit — from how the money was spent to who planned the security.
Only Harper can order such a review.
Hepburn: One year later: still no G20 answers - thestar.com
On Monday, the Ontario attorney general’s ministry released statistics showing more than 1,100 people were detained during the G20 summit, 317 were charged and only 24 people have been convicted so far.
On Tuesday, Premier Dalton McGuinty again rejected any thought of a full provincial inquiry. Instead, he said it’s up to Harper to call for such a probe because the summit was a federal government initiative.
Also on Tuesday, Ontario Ombudsman André Marin said in his annual report that secrecy within the provincial government has been growing for years and culminated with the “granddaddy of all secret manoeuvres” during the summit, “which was the non-publication of a (provincial) regulation which extended extraordinary, likely illegal, powers to the police during the G20.”
That same day, the RCMP confirmed it is investigating allegations that Harper’s cabinet misappropriated millions in G8 money spent in the Parry-Sound-Muskoka riding of Treasury Board President Tony Clement.
“Like a banana republic” is how Ruby describes our inability to get answers a full year after the summit.
Ruby will be on a panel of experts Thursday evening discussing the G20 controversy. The event, entitled “G20: Lessons Learned, Messages Lost,” is sponsored by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Canadian Labour Congress and the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights. It starts at 6:30 p.m. at Bennett Lecture Hall at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law.
Since the summit ended, there have been more than half a dozen small “reviews” by police and government agencies and boards into specific aspects of the summit. But none of these reviews has the mandate of conducting an overall probe into all facets of the summit — from how the money was spent to who planned the security.
Only Harper can order such a review.
Hepburn: One year later: still no G20 answers - thestar.com
hmmm.....rock and a hard place. maybe I'll stay home and watch it on the 6 oclock news
hmmm.....rock and a hard place. maybe I'll stay home and watch it on the 6 oclock news
It will only be on the news if they don't arrest and beat the cameramen.
Police unprepared for G20 riots: report
TORONTO - A Toronto police report on last year's G20 riot says officers were unprepared to deal with extent of the carnage. The internal report says not enough riot police could respond to a group of protesters who set police cars on fire and smashed store windows.
It says some officers not properly trained in riot control were forced to step in and that officers were hamstrung by poor communications. Police have been criticized for their handling of the protests, including the managing of a detention centre where more than one-thousand people were sent.
Detainees complained of cramped conditions, little to no food or their medical needs being ignored.
More than 280 complaints were made regarding policing during the G20 summit.
The report makes a number of recommendations, including developing a way to identify people in a crowd who threaten public safety.
Police unprepared for G20 riots: report
TORONTO - A Toronto police report on last year's G20 riot says officers were unprepared to deal with extent of the carnage. The internal report says not enough riot police could respond to a group of protesters who set police cars on fire and smashed store windows.
It says some officers not properly trained in riot control were forced to step in and that officers were hamstrung by poor communications. Police have been criticized for their handling of the protests, including the managing of a detention centre where more than one-thousand people were sent.
Detainees complained of cramped conditions, little to no food or their medical needs being ignored.
More than 280 complaints were made regarding policing during the G20 summit.
The report makes a number of recommendations, including developing a way to identify people in a crowd who threaten public safety.
Police unprepared for G20 riots: report
The media still seems to avoid differentiating between the black bloc and peaceful protestors. They lump them both together as if the only protestors there were rioters. They should be more accurate and give us proportional numbers.
Yes, although in general, I don't agree with the protestors, it would be nice to see some differentiating in the media
The black bloc was only visible on the Saturday of the event, come Sunday it was peaceful protesters and average people milling about.
Media is biased. It's useless. It has turned into a propaganda machine of gargatuan proportion.
Black cops. Black Bloc....it even rhymes.
Activists demand police chief resign over G20 'abuses'
TORONTO — Civil rights activists want a judicial inquiry into what they call "police and political abuses" during the G20 summit in Toronto last June, and are demanding the resignation of the city's police chief.
Amnesty International, the Ontario Federation of Labour, the Council of Canadians and individual activists held a news conference today to say a series of reports and inquiries into the G20 weekend aren't enough. They want a full judicial inquiry that looks not only at police abuses during the international summit, but at the politicians who directed the police and the summit itself.
Labour federation president Sid Ryan says Toronto police Chief Bill Blair should resign for allowing officers to hide behind the "thin blue line," but adds politicians who gave the orders should also be fired. He says a lot of heads should roll, starting with the Ontario government's Public Safety Minister because of the secret law the Liberals passed governing police powers during the G20.
York University political science professor David McNally says there is no alternative but for Blair to resign if the public's faith in the judicial and policing systems is to be restored.
CTV Toronto - Activists demand police chief resign over G20 'abuses' - CTV News
TORONTO — Civil rights activists want a judicial inquiry into what they call "police and political abuses" during the G20 summit in Toronto last June, and are demanding the resignation of the city's police chief.
Amnesty International, the Ontario Federation of Labour, the Council of Canadians and individual activists held a news conference today to say a series of reports and inquiries into the G20 weekend aren't enough. They want a full judicial inquiry that looks not only at police abuses during the international summit, but at the politicians who directed the police and the summit itself.
Labour federation president Sid Ryan says Toronto police Chief Bill Blair should resign for allowing officers to hide behind the "thin blue line," but adds politicians who gave the orders should also be fired. He says a lot of heads should roll, starting with the Ontario government's Public Safety Minister because of the secret law the Liberals passed governing police powers during the G20.
York University political science professor David McNally says there is no alternative but for Blair to resign if the public's faith in the judicial and policing systems is to be restored.
CTV Toronto - Activists demand police chief resign over G20 'abuses' - CTV News
Just the babies after there coat has changed.
Witness the umbrella of brotherly love these scoundrels will cover their asses with.
Micheal Bryant runs over and kills a courier on camera and the can't manage to get a conviction of even failure to obey a stop sign.
An ex Conservative get caught speeding, drunk and carrying Cocaine on him and they manage to whittle that down to a $500 fine for careless driving.
It's time to get active.