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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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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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Taiva Tegler – “I saw many injured detainees with arms in slings and faces bruised and swollen being led quickly with their ankles chained”
I joined with a jail cell solidarity group in front of the film studio on Eastern Ave around 11pm. We remained across the street on the designated sidewalk and cyclist path – not on the road. We were dancing, singing … Continue reading
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Seamus Wolfe – “Five officers grabbed me, hit me repeatedly with batons and fists, threw me to the concrete, crushed knees into my cheek bone, back and thighs, dragged me on the pavement and put handcuffs on me”.
At approximately 5:30 pm on June 26, 2010, a group of students I was with decided that after all the confusion of the all the actions in downtown Toronto in protest of the G8/G20, the best place to go was … Continue reading
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Maximilian Pacheco – “It is important to note the horrid conditions in the jail. The cells, which were over-glorified dog cages, were often over-crowded.”
Hello, my name is Maximilian Pacheco, I am a 20 year old Political Science and History student at U of T. I was born and raised in Toronto. Below is a detailed account of what happened to me: Myself, along … Continue reading
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“They were going to release us until this one cop came and saw that we had the legal number written on our arms. She then said that we were elegible for arrest.”
On sunday morning my boyfriend and i, from ottawa, were sitting in queen’s park waiting for some friends. There were groups of 10 cops or more at every street corner on college st. We had previously been searched and got … Continue reading
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Sherry B. Good – “I couldn’t sleep last night. I took the day off work, I’m so upset”
I’m not a young person (over 50) and I had no intention of protesting the G20 until I heard about the police trying to intimidate people into not exercising their democratic rights by obtaining sound cannons, rubber bullets and the … Continue reading
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