In this video we see riot police move out of sight in an alley way while black blockers trash the area.
…Several of These riot police can be seen removing their masks and other gear, and are obviously not dressed like the others.
The insidious plotline to the NWO…
Reported by Emily of Toronto Truth
The following are a few insights into why the police violence and government cover up has been seemingly brushed off by the mainstream.
That fact is, the information has been cencored. People simply aren’t getting the real facts…
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A fact about TV newscasting and major networks is that they follow the same rating system as any other Television broadcast. Awards, veiwer ratings, best newscast award…
This means that the TV and Mainstream news can be written and edited like any other show.
If we take a photo of a burning police car with hundreds of protestors around it, and then show video footage of black blockers smashing a few windows, we get a sense of violence, that all of this is the same event.
A consitent question among those on all sides involved in the G20 attrocities is,
-Why were the users of the black block tactic, a number of perhaps 200, permitted to run down the streets of toronto and cause the supposed riot, standing against 1 Billion Dollars and 20,000 Riot Police.
-Why did it take 5 Of the riot police to assault and arrest each of the 1000+ peacful demonstrators, journalists, bystanders and civilians?
-Why were protests disrupted violently at times well before and after the black block events.
-Why did Stephen Harper cover up the truth about the public works act to massivly broaden police powers?
-Why were none of the true vandals brought to justice?
-Why do the governments claim it was such a good job?
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Behind the Scripting, how the human eye witnessed it:
The police let the cars burn. No doubt about it, they let them burn nice and toasty for all the world to see. Scores of riot geared men stood silently as the flames destroyed property and injured civilans, and the blockers went on.
There were no fire trucks, people cleared themselves back and the riot police began the violence.
The reports that came out following the weekend were that police had drastically conflicting orders, engage or do not engage black blockers? No one knew what was going on, they’d said.
The final order came down to do not engage. Do not engage the true vandals, let them continue.
All throughout the weekend and even prior, peacful demonstrations were being violently disrupted.
People were searched at random as early as 2 weeks prior, and some even arrested near that time.
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All of the trends suggest a severe bias in the media scripting of this event. They’ve gotten a very good story out of it, and despite the reports begining to filter into those networks, the fact is clear:
Stephen Harper, Dalton McGuinty and Police cheif blair directly lied about the laws in play, and have approved acts of extreme human rights violation for the standard of canada, and this is being filtered from the mainstream eye…
The police violence began in queens park roughly the same time the black blockers began their mini-riot. The police let loose on everyone, everywhere, assaulting at random. Those in this designated zone had commited no crime and were forced to suffer the concequinces.
The news casts edited the footage of burning police cars next to the bits of officers charging at many different groups of protestors from many different peacful protests throughout the weekend.
This kind of false timeline and editing makes it look like the riot had started with the peacful demonstrators, rather than just a bunch of hoods.
An insidious underside to the G20 Security Buildup…
As reported by Emily of Toronto Truth
These conditions are of course against our basic human rights granted by law.
Slowly but surely, the charges are fittering away quietly, but the stories are comming out.
The police in these cases of targeted assault attempted to block the young voices of tomorow from speaking out as one.
It is illustrated in the following trends:
1 — Police targeted individuals under 25. Young demonstrators who came for peaceful assembly were the hardest hit. The police tried to break them down, break their spirits.
2— Attempt to block free assembly through intimidation and assault.
I have personally spoken with a neigbor who was arrested and is set to house arrest and to not appear at any demonstrations.
It is a common theme among the young demonstrators affected that they were strongly intimidated with such wild charges, being forced into never publicly speaking again.
Thank you to these inspirational individuals who throughout the ordeal have continued to come forward. It has made stronger voices of us all to have survived it.
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/07/07/g20-summit-police-protester-pruyn.html
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A protester is arrested by police officers at Queen’s Park during the G20 demo in Toronto on June 26. (Adrien Veczan/Canadian Press)An Ontario man alleges he was roughed up by police, stripped of his prosthetic leg and detained without charge during the G20 protests in Toronto late last month.
John Pruyn, 57, of Thorold was among the thousands of peaceful demonstrators in downtown Toronto as part of the People First March on June 26. He was with his wife and daughter to protest the G20’s “agenda of the super wealthy.”
After a four-hour march along University Avenue and Queen Street West, Pruyn was sitting on the lawn of Queen’s Park in front of the Ontario legislature with his daughter and two men at about 6:15 p.m. ET. They were approached by police and told to move, he said.
One of the many cells that police used to detain people during the G20 summit in Toronto in June. (CBC)Pruyn, an above-the-knee amputee who uses walking sticks to get around, started to rise, but lost his balance and fell back, and then police responded aggressively, he said.
“‘Get the four of them!'” Pruyn recalled a police officer saying.
“One of them put a knee on my head, and pinned me to the ground [and] my arms were underneath me,” he said. “And one of them said I was trying to resist arrest, but I wasn’t… I couldn’t move.”
Police then “yanked” his arms out from underneath him, tied his wrists together behind his back with plastic ties, and ordered him to get up and walk, he alleges.
“I said I couldn’t. So then one of them grabbed my artificial leg, and yanked it off and then they ordered me to hop.”
When Pruyn told police he couldn’t hop, they picked him up by his armpits and dragged him across the ground, scraping his elbows on the rough pavement, he said. His glasses fell off at some point during the altercation and were lost.
Police took Pruyn to a police van, where he sat without his leg for more than an hour, he said. He was later transported to a temporary detention centre in the city’s east end, given a wheelchair and put in a cell, he said.
Police refused to give him back his prosthetic leg for fear he would use it as a weapon, he said. He didn’t get it back until he was released — 24 hours later — at 9 p.m. on Sunday, and without charge.
“I was never processed,” Pruyn said. “As far as I know, I wasn’t arrested for anything. I was never charged with anything. I was not accused of anything.”
Almost two weeks later, Pruyn says he is still recovering from injuries he suffered that day, including to his head, shoulders and right elbow.
“I couldn’t believe it at first, especially their being so rough,” Pruyn said Tuesday.
“If they wanted to arrest me, that’s fine, but … to be so rough about it and to drag me over,” he said, trailing off. “I mean, obviously they knew I was an amputee.”
His wife, who was also at the protest but was not detained, did not know what had happened to her husband or daughter, who was also detained, since they were separated during the protest.
“Nothing’s going to happen,” Susan Pruyn, who is a pacifist, recalled thinking before the protests. “We’re peaceful.”
Toronto Police Services said it would not respond to allegations or individual complaints.
Peter Kormos, the Ontario NDP’s justice critic, told the online news website Niagara at Large that Pruyn’s story “is one of the most shocking of the whole [G20 summit] weekend.
“John is not a troublemaker… he is a peacemaker,” Kormos told the site.
The Toronto Police Services board on Tuesday ordered a review of the tactics used by police during the G20 summit.
The Pruyn family plans to make a formal complaint, and wants the incident to be reviewed by the independent inquiry. But Pruyn is not optimistic the review will have lasting implications.
“To me, the police had a duty to look after the people, not only protect the businesses in the area but protect the marchers and the protesters,” he said. “And I think they let a lot of people down.”
In the days since the G20 summit, the body that oversees complaints against Ontario police forces has received more than double the usual number.
The Office of the Independent Police Review Director said it received 164 complaints the week of June 27 to July 3. The average number is about 80 complaints per week.
With files from The Canadian Press
Reported By Emily Bronswell**
June 26, saturday, Midnight.
Queen Street west and Bathurst
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On the evening of June 26th, I personally witnessed an incident between riot police and a group of peaceful marchers.
At approximatly Midnight, I exited The Club I was attending for a ciggarette, feeling that something was about to go amiss on my beloved queen west.
I heard the chanting, “Who’s streets? OUR STREETS!” … I can’t remember at this point who came from what side, east or west, but frankly it didn’t matter.
I made my way east a block to stand in the cage enclosure around the doorway of velvet underground, who had shut their doors until things calmed. Between the wire bars I watched the marchers assemble in front of the line of riot police which had suddenly marched in from the east. The ratio was about 3 police to each civilian, and these were people I knew by face and name, individuals of peace and non-confrontation who simply were outraged at the police behaviour.
There were about 12 mounted officers, the horses took stance and assembled the front line…
Never in my life will I forget the sound of the batons cracking in rythym against the riot sheilds…I still find myself woken in the night by anything that soundsl ike it…it was an army that had suddenly descended upon our community, like I was watching my worst nightmare come true right in front of me.
The riot police had begun to drive their line west, towards the marchers advancing peacfully. They were now right in front of me, still crouched behind the bars to remain unseen. People were already stepping back and preparing to run. We all knew what was about to happen.
Without any kind of warning at any time, the line of horses charged through towards the crowd, sending them running down the street with no way to go left or right or take cover from being trampled. One idiot threw a plastic signboard from a shop in an attempt of defence, before all of the marchers scattered down the street screaming, running from 12 horses and countless armed men in uniform.
That one tiny little plastic signboard was the only show of retaliation from the marchers during this confrontation, and at no time was any warning or direction given by police to dispurse or stand down. They just met head on, there in the street and charged without reason.
I remember screaming a little as the riot police on foot marchched past me down that street, some of them toting tear gas guns like new toys, locking down the corner of portland and queen much the same as they had locked other areas down in the weekend. One officer as he passed held his rifle pointed towards me and said loudly and frighteningly,
“For your safety mam, close the door!”
First of all, any fool with eyes would see there was no door to close, they had trapped me as an innocent civilian in the line of danger amidst them.
Second, the officers showed absolutely no concern for the safety of club goers and bar patrons present as they effectively locked the confrontation into the area directly in front of said clubs. If things had gotten rough, we all would have suffered dearly.
I shrank far into the shadowy corner as the horses charged at the marchers twice more, and the riot police enclosed the now empty intersection.
I was alone inside that lockdown, watching as they toted their guns with such pride, smiling and joking at their acts of repression and violence against these innocent people, my family, my friends, who spend most of our days on queen west and know it as our own home.
For nearly 10 minutes, the riot police stood without purpose, toting guns carelessly like children and waving teargas guns like lunchboxes… they were surounding the empty intersection simply to show they had “secured it” from these “violent protestors”
After this time, for no apparent reason other than their own choice, and again with no verbal communication at any time to the group assembled or the civilians present, the police began to march backwards in retrea- style eastward, allowing the marchers to come forward in the direction they’d wanted to. They did so with a cheer, and continued as they had begun, marching and chanting with no violence to mar their message.
Who’s street?
Our street.
The way the officers moved made it look like they were being attacked, and yet nearly 100 feet remained between their guns and the people at all times. They were like soldiers in a video game, programmed to react in a certain way at certain times….
I thought about the whole thing in conjunction with the turn of social standards that queen west has taken on with the new development in that area, how it is becomming a new kind of living and nightspot for a more mainstream crowd, and how the alternative community has been slowly and systematically moved off….
I have come to the conclusion that this incident was directly part of the G20 scripting, a planned confrontation to make it appear to clubgoers that the activism/alternative community were causing the issue at hand. The riot police seemed to be displaying a show of power to the bar patrons, and how “dangerous” and “violent” things would have been had they not been there to defend the streets.
Let me tell you something officers — Your job was to protect me as an innocent bystander from not only the violence of these supposed dissdents, but also from your own fucking carelessness in conducting your jobs.
I was a civilian that got caught in the crossfire. Your job was to prevent that. Tell me what is it exactly you accomplished that night other than scaring the shit out of our own citizens?
Wait, I forgot that was the whole reason G20 got dumped in our lap. To show us true fear and repression and send us running into the arms of the government for their protection from their own rules.
One consistency in the actions which I will note on in furute posts is that at all confrontations where police brutality was reported, onlookers and pedestrians were kept back far enough out of veiwing and camera range to ensure that the information comming out of that zone could be manipulated in any way the police saw fit. This is why people filming at the lines were told to get back, lest the truth be captured for us all to see
Toronto: Wake up, ask questions, be involved, be a witness to your reality
I have-I do-I am-You can too
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**(Names changed for privacy protection)
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Sunday july 4th 2010, 2:30 PM, College and yonge street, toronto pride parade.
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Today at the parade, I witnessed the random stop and search of two parade goers. A larger male officer in sunglasses stood watch to the side as another officer searched the woman’s belongings. I also witnessed a female officer standing watch over her male companion who was also being searched…. All three of these 5 officers I saw looked very much like those seen in the video link above…
The woman being searched wore a rainbow bikini top, jean shorts and tall platform boots like the goths wear. Her gentelman friend I did not see so clearly, neither of them had shown any need for this kind of violation — They were simply parade goers.
THE G20 POLICE ARE STILL ENFORCING OUR STREETS
I am quite sure that many of the officers involved in these attrocities are still enforcing our streets on active duty. This must end immediatly.
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As reported by Emily Bronswell**, independant journalist of Toronto Truth.
***(Name has been changed to protect the identity of the individual)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGp5ieedBHU
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Name: Cassandra J
Occupation: Journalism Student
Purpose of Attendance
Protesting international poverty on Sunday
“The ride was very long – I soon realized we weren’t going to detention center as we were on the highway. We ended up at the police station in Scarborough at which point they released us with no charges and were kicked out into the rain being told that if we stay we’ll be charged with trespassing.”
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As recounted by a journalist of the Globe and Mail…
“An officer there had tried to grab my cellphone. Other officers had crowded around. They boisterously mocked the psychiatric patients coming out of the mental-health hospital behind me…..”
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By Justin Giovannetti and Lex Gill – June 28, 2010
http://www.thelinknewspaper.ca/articles/2698
WE ARE CALLING AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. IN THE MEANTIME, DISTRIBUTE THIS LINK AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE.
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We (i.e., Justin Giovannetti and Lex Gill) are both able and willing to testify in front of a court of law, tribunal or hearing to attest to the validity of these statements. Much of this is now recorded on video and we have some contact information for the victims. We will NOT consent to contact with any police representatives (municipal, provincial, or federal) nor will we consent to speaking to other security agencies (CSIS, Canadian Forces, etc.). We can be contacted at lex.gill [at] gmail [dot] com, or jackgiovannetti [at] gmail [dot] com.
We just got back to our computers and are frantically writing this message. It is 4:45 a.m. on Monday morning. We are the only people who seem to know the extent of this story. Coffee and adrenaline keeping us going. When we got to Queen and Spadina after leaving the Convergence Centre raid today, we had already been blocked off by police lines. It was pouring rain, and we could hear a confrontation taking place further down the street. The cops didn’t care whether or not we were media — in fact, we heard that media was forced to leave before we arrived. Police acted violently and with sheer disregard for the law, attacking peaceful protesters and civilians unrelated to the protest. Tired, frantic, and feeling defeated, we came home and posted the message before this one.
We then did the only thing left to do, and headed to 629 Eastern Avenue (the G20 Detention Centre, a converted film studio), where detainees from the demonstrations were being taken. We knew people were being released sporadically so we grabbed as many juice boxes and granola bars as we could afford and set off with medical supplies. Journalists were basically absent, showed up only to take a few seconds of video, or simply arrived far too late to be effective.
It is next to impossible to set the scene of what happened at the Detention Centre. Between the two of us we estimate that we spoke to over 120 people, most of whom were released between 9:30 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. Despite not knowing each other, the story they tell is the same. It goes like this. Most were arrested at three locations: the Novotel on Saturday evening where the police arrested hundreds of peaceful protesters (look@spaikan on Twitter); Spadina/Queen’s Park all day Saturday and early Sunday, as people were arrested all over the downtown for many different (and often bogus) reasons; and the University of Toronto, where hundreds of Quebecers and others were woken up and arrested at gun point early Saturday morning.
What follows is a list, as detailed as we can make it in a blog post, of what we saw and heard.
People were held for up to 35 hours with a single meal. None seemed to have received food more than twice daily, the meal they did receive was a hamburger bun with processed cheese and margarine described as a centimeter thick. Detainees had to create loud noises for hours to receive any food at all. All reported feeling more ill and dehydrated after eating than before. Some vomited and received no medical attention when they did. Water was not provided with the meal.
Inadequate water, as little as an ounce every 12 hours. Although some people reported receiving approximately an ounce (a small Dixie cup) of water every three hours, most seemed to have received far less than that. They had to create loud noises and continuously demand water, only to receive it up to an hour and a half later. Sometimes rooms with over a dozen people were only given a handful (four or five) cups of water and forced to share. Some reported the water as yellow-coloured and smelling of urine, which they didn’t drink.
Facilities over-capacity. There were many reports of “cages” filled with 40 people, though a police officer told one detainee that they were intended for groups of no more than 15 to 20. Each cage had a single bench, with only enough seating for five people. There was only one toilet in each cage and it was without a door. Women were creating barriers with their bodies for others to create some semblance of privacy.
Major delays in processing. Many detainees were told that the only reason they remained at the Centre was due to unexplained delays in processing. Most detainees seemed to go through a three step system whereby they were put in an initial holding cell, only to be moved to a second cell after meeting a Staff Sergeant in a board room. This is where they were told what they were arrested for. Eventually they were moved to a third cell before release. This process seemed to take no less than 10 hours. Others were never told why they were arrested and never signed any documents. A few were released immediately upon arriving at the Centre and were never processed. Some were never brought to a cell, only made to wait in a line to be let out.
Inconsistent charges. Groups arrested at the same time and for the same behaviour were given different charges, with some let out and others given court dates. Many felt the police simply assigned a charge or did not know why they were being arrested. Some charges were changed or dropped before the detainees were released.
People put in solitary confinement. Most of the openly queer detainees reported to have been transferred to a “Segregated Zone.” In cages built for one, couples of men and women were held. A lesbian is reported to have spent nearly 10 hours alone. Another woman said she was kept alone in a large cell for hours, asking to be moved the whole time.
No pillows or mattresses to sleep. No bedding was ever provided for detainees, who were told to sleep on bare concrete floors. Detainees were stripped of all but a single shirt and legwear. Many said they could not sleep during their day long detentions.
Unsanitary and unsafe living conditions. Many of the floors of the cages were covered with dirt and the residue from green paintballs used to identify suspects in crowds. Vomit was also on the floor and no cleaning of the cages took place.
Police intimidation of released detainees. With many of the detainees released and standing across the street from the detention centre, getting food and water from community volunteers while waiting for friends, police stood menacingly across the road. Almost all the detainees were frightened by the police presence and feared an attack. The police used the headlights of rental Dodge Caravans to light up the crowd, citing a need to “keep them visible.”
Non-stop light exposure/loss of natural light rhythm/sensory deprivation. Detainees emerged with a broken day/night cycle, being deprived of all connection to the outside world or any other time-based events (ie. set eating times). While in their cages, detainees were subject to constant light.
Exposure to extreme cold. Detainees complained of the air conditioning in the building being very high. Many of them said that they were frozen and asked for blankets, a request which was always refused. Due to having only a single layer of shirt and sleeping on concrete floors, the cages were extremely cold.
Sexual harassment of women and Queer people. We heard many first-hand accounts of cat-calls and crude sexual comments directed at women from police officers at the Centre. Some women faced inappropriate sexual contact (including one girl who was forced to endure a police officer covering her body with detainee number stickers in order to touch her), and rough handling from police officers. Openly Queer boys were told to “straighten up,” and there was at least one completely nude strip search preformed on a young woman with no reasonable explanation. It is unclear whether the strip searches that took place were consistently conducted by members of the same gender. It is also unclear as to whether any Transpeople, if detained, were put in cells of a gender of their own determination or in cells of a police gender assignment.
Youth as young as 15 in adult cells. Youth (under 18) detainees were held in the same cells as adults, some of whom had not been charged at all (and thus it could not be justified that they were being held on adult charges). A 16-year-old was held in an adult cell for at least 12 hours, the police were fully aware of his age, and his parents were at no point contacted.
Denial of legal counsel. When detainees asked to see lawyers they were told that they would receive legal counsel at a later time or at the time of processing. Often, these times went by and no legal counsel was provided. Those released without charge were told to avoid contacting lawyers. Most detainees said they were never informed of their rights.
No phone call. About only one in ten of the detainees we spoke to had been given access to a phone. Others were promised access at a later time and never received it. There was a father waiting outside for his 20-year old son who had been arrested Saturday afternoon or evening, and had yet to receive a call. Many of the detainees were told that only 20 phones were available in the building, holding over 500 detainees at the time. The offices of legal counsel also had no landlines.
Belongings stolen/damaged. Most detainees reported that at least some of their confiscated belongings were not returned to them, including passports, wallets, credit and debit cards, money, cellphones and clothing. When detainees were escorted outside the Centre, many were made to walk on the street without access to their shoes (sealed in thick plastic bags only returned at the limit of the Centre’s property). Some shoes were missing entirely. At least one extremely visually impaired detainee’s glasses were put with his belongings and were severely damaged when he recovered them (ie. broken in half).
Threats of assault/harassment. Many detainees, but especially French Canadian detainees (who were not served in French), were taunted and threatened with assault. Homophobic slurs were used by guards and one was told that if he was ever seen again in Toronto the cop would attack him. Other degrading comments were made, including telling detainees that they “looked like dogs.”
Obviously illegal civilian arrests. Some civilians who were completely uninvolved in the demonstrations were arrested while exiting subway stations in the downtown core. Some were arrested after illegal searches of cars turned up “dangerous goods” (like books about activism and lemon juice). One fully-uniformed TTC streetcar driver was arrested for hours. He had been ordered out of his streetcar by riot police and was immediately arrested. We wish we were kidding.
No access to medication or medical treatment. While doing medical support, Lex met at least two people who had been denied medication. The first was a woman who said that she was pre-diabetic and needed medication for nausea and dizziness. She was denied access to medical treatment, despite the fact that by the time Lex found her she was extremely faint, barely conscious, and had difficulty sitting up. The second was a young man who was prescribed anti-psychotics and had missed several doses (he did not, however, have an episode at the time Lex met him). We heard stories of at least one person with Type 2 diabetes inside the Centre who had been deprived of insulin and fell unconscious. Many stories of a man handcuffed to a wheelchair, missing a leg (and his prosthetic) came from the released detainees. One recently-released detainee had four extremely poorly done stitches on his chin and was uncertain as to what shots (whether tetanus or anesthetic, or both) he was given. He was given the stitches at the time of his arrest and the wound was still bleeding badly (we had to sterilize it and applied gauze).
Abandonment. Despite all of the above mentioned crimes against detainees, most notably including medical issues, the Toronto Police had no plan for the detainees after they were released. They were simply escorted off the property and told to leave. Many had no idea where they were, had no access to a phone, had not eaten in a day, had no identification or money on their person, and were nowhere near mass transit. Had community volunteers and fellow released detainees not been present to assist them, we fear that some could have faced life-threatening medical emergencies or death.
We will be continually updating this blog over the next few weeks. Please share this with everyone you possibly can. People must know what has happened in Toronto. For those of you attending the Jail Solidarity rally [today – Monday], please distribute this link widely.
Thank you.
For Justice,
Justin Giovannetti and Lex Gill
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