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These are serious charges. Will we hear more about it? I hate to sound cynical, but I doubt it. The local TV news always summarize these things as “xxx number of protesters arrested” and move on to the latest auto crash.

Sounds a bit like what happened in Quebec a couple of years ago. The police first denied, then admitted that they had been undercover, but did not commit any crimes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAfzUOx53Rg

“The temporary regulation, which was passed in secret June 2″

Canadian police are enforcing secret laws?

For more on that:

RT @doctorow RT @torontoist: This weekend’s Historicist puts the extended #G20 police powers in context: http://bit.ly/9L3cac

We’ll just add that to my list o’ links.
Michaelk42 recently posted..Pogan sentencing- delayed

I'll just leave this right here:

http://www.thestar.com/news/torontog20summit/article/910306--police-offi...

Six months after the G20 Summit, an officer has been charged with assaulting a protester at Queen’s Park.

Working with evidence supplied in part by the Toronto Star, Special Investigations Unit director Ian Scott said in a news release Tuesday: “There are reasonable grounds to believe that an officer... committed a criminal offence in connection with the arrest of Adam Nobody on June 26.”

Constable Babak Andalib-Goortani has been charged with assault with a weapon.

Andalib-Goortani is the previously unidentified officer whose image ran on the Star’s front page just two weeks ago.

On Dec. 7, the newspaper ran a story about newly obtained video footage showing the officer’s face peering through a raised visor after he appeared to wield his baton during the takedown of Nobody.

On Dec. 8, a picture was published of the same officer participating in the takedown of National Post photographer Colin O’Connor. Two officers in the immediate vicinity — J. McIntyre and S. Ma — were identified through pictures with their name tags on.

The arrest comes less than a month after the SIU concluded its investigation into Nobody’s injuries, as well as five other cases. While the police watchdog said excessive force was probably used in Nobody’s case, it was impossible to identify the officer. Scott pointed to a YouTube video titled “Toronto G20, Peaceful Protestor Tackled and Roughed Up.”

Police Chief Bill Blair lashed out in a radio interview, saying the video of the 27-year-old stage builder was “significantly tampered with and fabricated.” He suggested police were in the middle of arresting a violent armed offender.

John Bridge, who shot the video, signed an affidavit saying there was a four-second gap in the video because he briefly switched off his camera when he saw police rushing toward him.

Blair later apologized to Nobody.

The chief’s claim unleashed a flood of citizens’ evidence of the volatile demonstrations during the summit of world leaders that turned downtown Toronto into an armed camp.

On Nov. 30, the SIU reopened Nobody’s case, and then released photographs of two bystanders recording his arrest and asked for their help. At least one came forward.

The Star later provided a second video.

Toronto police gave the SIU the names of 15 officers who may have been in the area or had something to do with Nobody’s injuries.

“Through an analysis of the video imagery and additional information gathered during the reopened investigation, SIU investigators determined that three of the named 15 officers may have caused injuries to Mr. Nobody related to his first allegation of assault,” Scott said.

“Twelve officers were designated as witness officers and interviewed,” but none could identify themselves or any other officers in the videos, Scott said.

The three subject officers declined to provide a statement “as is their right,” he said.

Police then gave the SIU the name of a 16th officer who identified one of the subject officers as Andalib-Goortani, said Scott.

When asked whether Nobody’s case is closed, SIU spokesman Frank Phillips said: “At this point, yes. But this time is the same as the last time. If we get new material evidence... then the investigation could be reopened.”

Lawyer Sunil Mathai, who’s representing Nobody, said he was encouraged that at least one officer was being held accountable, but added: “It is regrettable that 12 witness officers were unable to identify themselves or others in the video... This makes a mockery of the duty to cooperate.”

pigs never change. in my day it was the hippie chicks for cop meat. too bad i'm an atheist or i could pray they all die of butt cancer.

pigs never change. in my day it was the hippie chicks for cop meat. too bad i'm an atheist or i could pray they all die of butt cancer.

Who likes conspiracy theories? there is something about shoes: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19928

Read The Lucifer Effect (2007, Random House)
http://www.lucifereffect.com/

There aren’t bad apples. The whole barrel, i.e., power of aggression over other people, is bad.

And another Tumblr friend brings us this:

http://www.becomingsomething.com/2010/06/shocking-firsthand-account-of-t...

You don’t have to remove free speech and assembly rights. Just timeshift them to where they’re less effective, and intimidate people out of using them in the future.
Michaelk42 recently posted..Pogan sentencing- delayed

I would imagine that the shoes and equipment were purchased deliberately as to be confused with police. Makes it harder to track and ID your people.

What does wating for moderation mean?

It happens every once in a while. A comment gets caught up in the moderation filter for whatever reason. Thanks for letting me know.

The cops parked the cars and left them unlocked, they wanted the cars to be set on fire, they needed to justify the billion dollar plus bill this stupidity cost. People wonder why I don’t file tax returns.
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Those cops watched “Superbad” too many times.

The police weren’t the ones who budgeted $1 Billion on security measures. The Canadian Government did that. Jody, you need to remove your aluminum foil hat on occasion.

Well, as previously commented, it wouldn’t be the first time undercover cops went nutso to justify mass arrests.

The problem is that we do not truly know. There too many conflicting story’s, each from some one with there own agenda. What is the truth,?

What about BP raping our beaches? Carlos, I hope when this oil its Miami, you will take up this cause and expose what is really going on with this oil thing. Check out this shocking article!

http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/07/bp-oil-methane-explosion-extinction-...

c’mon, man.

I know the Canadian government did numnuts, government and cops work for the same side. Harper did not want to lose face so cops were ordered to do this shit. Are you a government apologist?
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No, but I also don’t see conspiracies around every corner.

The shocking thing is that anyone believes that bull.

“She also said a woman in jail told her …”

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Why not, they are big oil, they rape you and every body all the time. But this is not the topic of this thread.

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity”. I think the Toronto Police severely underestimated the desire of the so-called Black Bloc to cause mayhem, and so spent the weekend reacting rather than acting. It explains the events better than some vast conspiracy of cops pretending to be vandals…