For anyone concerned about police brutality and abuse of power, I urge you to check out the latest posting on Dawg’s Blog, which details how Ottawa police beat a sleeping homeless person.Recommend this Post
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knitnut.net: Ottawa Police break sleeping man’s bones
Once again, there are more horrifying allegations of brutality lodged against members of the Ottawa Police Service.
A woman and her teenaged daughter found a man sleeping on the sidewalk early Saturday morning. She called 911, expecting the police would help the man. When they arrived, according to the woman, they shoved him around and […]
Continue readingRetiring senior Toronto cop calls #G20 reaction overblown
Toronto News: Retiring deputy chief calls G20 reaction overblown – thestar.comYou know where I’m going with this, so I’ll just let thwap and Lorne carry the ball on this one. They say it better than I can anyway.Hey, Tony? Don’t go away mad. Just go aw…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Toronto G20: The only organized agression was perpetrated by police
Toronto News: Aggression during G20 rally ‘perpetrated by police,’ judge rules – thestar.comAlthough we now have a judge’s statements that the police were unjustified aggressors on the weekend of the G20 protests in Toronto (June 2010), the stateme…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Babylon Burns While I Fish
I’m on a bit of a holiday this week, at a rental cottage up in the Muskokas. It’s quiet, the air is clean and the loons are warbling as sun sets. Meanwhile the world seems to be going to hell in a hangbasket – what’s up with that?
Global stock markets…
Continue readingknitnut.net: Standard operating procedure vs police brutality
I’ve been thinking more about the Roxanne Carr videos. About the way she was handled by the police in the cell block. The officers seemed so calm and methodical, as if they were just following proper procedure. They didn’t seem to be angry or out of control. Add to this the fact that the Acting […]
Continue readingknitnut.net: Roxanne Carr cell block footage released
The videos of Roxanne Carr being checked into the Ottawa Police cell block are now public. You can see them here.
Roxanne Carr left the following comment on my blog, on the Bank Street Bully post, in December, 2008. I haven’t edited it at all, other than to add paragraph breaks for ease of reading.
My name […]
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Police Facial Recognition Skills Continue To Decline
Whether it is a food, air, or water-borne virus, or a strange and hitherto undocumented brain condition, there is no question that police facial recognition skills are declining, calling into question their ability to accurately testify in criminal cas…
Continue readingSIU Concludes Reopened #G20 Nobody Investigation | #policebrutality
SIU Concludes Reopened G20 Nobody Investigation… aaaaand, guess what? Can’t find any way to charge anyone else.Who could have foreseen such a thing?Oh, well. Maybe the Toronto Police will actually come forward and out the other members of Team Curbst…
Continue readingknitnut.net: Fire the thugs
Even I, who have a bit of a jaundiced eye when it comes to the behaviour of Ottawa’s police force as a whole, am surprised by how much police brutality has come to light since the Stacy Bonds incident. I can’t even keep up with it all here on the blog. I skipped the last […]
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Toronto Star Readers Speak Out On Police Abuses
I have written before about how much we are enjoying our subscription to The Toronto Star, one of the few newspapers that still seems to be doing the job that the press traditionally performed: keeping the public well-informed and reminding the powers-…
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: Join Us For the Unveiling of a Headstone In Memory of Nick Schaack
Join Us For the Unveiling of a Headstone In Memory of Nick SchaackWhat: Unveiling of a commemorative headstone for Nick Schaack, who died as a result of his participation in the Regina Riot, July 1st, 1935, struggling for economic security on behalf of…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Judge Excoriates Cops As Thugs, Expresses Content Superiors Who Conceal
Yesterday I posted some of the comments made by Justice Allen upon sentencing two Toronto police officers to a year of house arrest for beating a Cabbagetown man in 2009. Today there are further comments in The Star by the Superior Court Judge, includ…
Continue reading@TorontoPolice Tweeter guy: Is this your idea of building relations? | #G20
Don’t know what this guy was doing … … but even if we grant for the moment that the apprehension was lawful and justified, can you explain why the Toronto Police officers effecting the arrest decided they had to grind his face into the concrete whi…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Judge: Police Have A Culture That Rejects Accountability
Those were the words of Justice Elliot Allen as he sentenced two Toronto police officers to one year of house arrest for beating a Cabbagetown man in 2009. As is the usual practice when one of their own is under judicial scrutiny, the courthouse was p…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Why Civilian Oversight of the Police is Crucial
Rex Meade of Dundas has a very interesting letter on police heavy-handedness and how to deal with it in today’s Star. If you get a chance, take a look at it.Recommend this Post
Continue reading#G20 anniversary: Queen & Spadina, one year later
Hundreds of citizens arrested on bullshit pretexts.Detained arbitrarily in conditions that were gross violations of human rights.Subjected to racist, sexist, misogynistic and homophobic slurs and harassment.Assaulted indiscriminately.Beaten, tear-gasse…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: G20 Summit Police Tactics Continue to Outrage Canadians
There is a series of letters in today’s Star that articulate the ongoing sentiments of ordinary Canadians a year after people had their Charter Rights ripped away by an out-of-control police force during the G20 Summit in Toronto. There is also one by…
Continue reading@TorontoPolice Tweeter guy weighs in | #G20
… with a few nice words about accountability and regaining public trust.Here are some suggestions for you.Do something about the assholes who brutalized Lacy MacAuley.Out the sons of bitches who kicked Adam Nobody in the face after he was cuffed and …
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