G20Inquiry.org https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Adrian Naylor – “Without provocation, they attacked our peaceful protest” “I was beat roughly 20 times with batons” Bethany Horne – “blood poured out of his head, down his face and on to my friends jacket, dripping on my pants” Marc Gleeson – “I was held for 21 hours for peacefully protesting.” “They demanded identification and searches of bags and persons, without cause, and under the threat of physical violence, detention and legal action” “they were detaining me until I told them where I was staying in Toronto” Robert Bertuzzi – “police said they had the right to conduct these searches” Trevor Grant – “we were staging a peaceful protest when riot police surrounded us on all sides and would not let us leave” “several police officers lining the west side of the street had removed their names and badge numbers” Natasha Borris – “I have been having nightmares” Terra Dafoe – “In a matter of seconds, without warning, we were trapped. Our questions were met with blank stares, our panic with more pushing, complaints with arrest” Philip Boyle – “At no time during the detention was anyone in my cage allowed to speak with a lawyer” Sherry B. Good – “I couldn’t sleep last night. I took the day off work, I’m so upset” “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.” 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.” 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”. Taiva Tegler – “I saw many injured detainees with arms in slings and faces bruised and swollen being led quickly with their ankles chained” 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.” 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” “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” 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.” 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.” “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.” Sunni – “it still hurts my soul” David – the police “left both cars behind, windows open and unattended” “i was searched about 12 times for no reason” Police Charge after O Canada “me and my friend were grabbed by the officers and told to take off our bags and show them our ID” 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?'” “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” 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…” Chris – “I was told “Go F*ck yourself” by one cop” “I don’t know why weapons were used, firing into a crowd of innocent protesters” Siobhan – “they were going to strip search me … this feeling, this experience, is the hardest for me to reconcile and one of the times in my life I have felt the most powerless” “Repeated requests for phone calls and lawyers were denied.” “shut the fuck up you’re all under arrest that’s why you’re here” Stephen – “‘You cocksucker Black Bloc douchebags’, yelled an officer directly into my ear, ‘You think you are so fucking tough? How are you now without your faggot friends?'” “Eventually the [police] car stopped outside a small house … and let me off” “I am a witness to police abuse.” Alison – “One girl in my cage who began to cry said ‘I just don’t understand how people can treat other people like this'” “The complete opposite of what everyone else saw” “I witnessed police confiscating personal property and demanding they search peoples’ belongings” “The 2 officers asked to search our bags…we had heard that under the public works act they could legally do a search for no reason. “ Nat – “The man pleaded with them saying ‘I can’t run faster, I have a disability’ over and over again. One police officer yelled ‘you’re lying’ and beat him several times with a baton. “‘I was helping an old man! I was helping an old man!’, I scream. ‘Shut the fuck up, you piece of shit!’, he replies, and hits me with his club or punches me in the forehead” Stephen – “I heard no announcement that what had once been the designated protest zone had been deemed an unlawful assembly area” “A female cop without asking my permission took off my hijab [head scarf] and sweater leaving me in my tank top … in front of all the detainees in the alley way” Derek – “Boxed in without a place of exit” Simon – “when asked why we are not receiving our lawyers, phonecall, or bathroom break they shrugged indicating they were too busy while walking seemingly aimlessly” Tell Your Story