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- Joshua – “We cupped our hands as if offering water and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ Shuffling sideways on the crowded street corner I looked again into the next officer’s eyes: ‘Peace be with you.’ ‘Peace be with you.’ ‘Peace be with you.’ ‘Peace be’ – Quick. Cold. Rough. Two police seized me by the arms and pulled me off.”
- Karen – “I’ve never been afraid to go to a public demonstration…But now all that has changed.”
- “I did not see either officer wearing a badge”
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Jean-Nicolas – “A police officer with a bicycle placed in front of me, me cria ‘Get back!’ and struck me a violent blow in the belly with the handlebars!…That's when I asked the officer, very politely : ‘Sir, may I have your name and your badge, please.’ Il a répondu en criant ‘Catch him!’…The officer who hit me with his bicycle then addressed to me, looked into my eyes and said a sentence I'll never forget : ‘Now, do you still want my name and my badge?'”
- Dylan – “It was never explained how sitting was a crime.”
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Police Charge after O Canada
Police Charge after O Canada A longer version
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“i was searched about 12 times for no reason”
Here is a youtube video i recorded of an incident with the cops where they abused their power and basically assaulted my friend by grabbing him http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjVtsuoPlzk here is another angle from that incident http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_T3YhT0W1g at the G20 protest, i … Continue reading
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David – the police “left both cars behind, windows open and unattended”
I can still remember, as an undergrad, the debate at York University about the War Measures Act in 1970. That will give you some idea of my age and that I am not a black-shirted anarchist. Unlike York University, the … Continue reading
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Sunni – “it still hurts my soul”
What just happened… I was in jail. I was on queen street, just northeast of spadina, near lulalemon… i came across the burned down car, from the G20 rubble, all that was left of the police car was burned rubble… … Continue reading
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“All I could do was watch as a fellow protester (who had done nothing more than stand on the street holding a sign) got tackled, kicked, and dragged by a group of cops.”
On June 26th, after the storefronts had been smashed and Queen’s Park was in the process of being cleared by the cops, my friends and I were on College Street, to the East of University Ave. There was a line … Continue reading
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Jonah Hundert – “The other fellow in our cage was a diabetic. He was already sick when he joined us, but he was clearly getting worse by the second. We literally watched him fading away in front of us. For four bloody hours we tried to get medical attention for him.”
Here is my account of my experience in the G20 detention centre. On the night of Saturday June 26th I was involved in a peaceful demonstration (in the form of a dance party!) outside the temporary detention centre at Eastern … Continue reading
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Diane Marina – “Slowly we lost our civil rights, including the freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and the overall freedom to participate. By Sunday afternoon, they were using anything they could to single us out as anarchists.”
I felt like it was important for me to write about my experience at the G20 in Toronto on June 26-27 as there was misinformation being broadcasted by many media sources. We heard that the Black Bloc terrorized the downtown … Continue reading
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“My girlfriend, who was standing next to me and calm, was struck on the head, arm, hips, and kicked in the leg by a police officer, leaving a large bruise. She later vomited and suffered from blurry vision. Medics at the scene diagnosed a concussion”
I participated in the march on Saturday June 25 that left from Queen’s Park. As the march approached John Street on Queen, some sections of the march attempted to turn left on John. The sight of a full line of … Continue reading
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Julia Croome – “I was there as a monitor for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. . . like many others, I was never given an opportunity to remove myself from the intersection”
I was among those detained and arrested at Queen and Spadina on Sunday, June 27, 2010. I am a lawyer practicing in the area of civil litigation, mainly in relation to environmental and planning law, and was there as a … Continue reading
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Johanna Lewis – “I cannot stress this enough: it was a completely peaceful protest. People were being arrested in a brutal, violent, and seemingly random way.”
On Sunday June 27th, at 10 am, I gathered with a group of peaceful activists and community members at Jimmy Simpson Park. It was a solidarity rally for people who had been arrested in the past few days during the … Continue reading
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