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Recent Reports
- 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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Chris – “I was told “Go F*ck yourself” by one cop”
Hi, I’m Chris. Being detained for 18 hours in the 629 Eastern Avenue detention facility felt like ‘Canadian Bacon’ meets ‘1984’. .. The beginning, for me: So G20 Day 2 starts, and from what I know Montreal-based anarchist groups were … Continue reading
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Greg – “…the police continued to close in on us telling us to disperse. We responded saying you have us boxed in we can’t disperse…”
Purpose of Attendance I went to the rally in order to protest my extreme dissatisfaction with global governance, the pillaging of the poor to further the interests of the elite. Basically I was protesting injustice, it later turned into a … Continue reading
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“undercover cops revealed themselves while in court services truck, some of them were yelling and inciting dangerous activity while pretending to be part of protest”
G20 self-timeline: – Attended peaceful protest at 2 – split up, followed protest that went on through queen st and on (with black bloc) – Continue to help those affected by black bloc o Preventing attacks on people o Helped store owners quickly clean up stuff … Continue reading
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Marek – “They kept pushing us closer and closer together and banging on their shields, people starting panicking and yelling out, ‘Where are we supposed to go?'”
We had just gotten off the subway at Queen & Yonge, and walked towards the sound of the cheering crowd. There was several hundred people gathered at King & Bay, everyone taking pictures. There they were, Canada’s pride and joy,d … Continue reading
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“me and my friend were grabbed by the officers and told to take off our bags and show them our ID”
I came from out of town to peacefully protest to and walk in the protest march and just see for myself what this so called police state was like. Me and a friend at one point were walking by one … Continue reading
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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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