Jan 8th Rally To Demand A Public Inquiry into Police Actions During G20 Summit in Toronto
On Jan 8th, 2011 several hundred people met at Queens Park in a mass rally organized almost entirely on Facebook to Demand a Public Inquiry into Police Actions During G20 Summit in Toronto. That Facebook page has almost fourteen thousand participants, and if that number grows to 20K or 25K citizens, it might ring more bells in the halls of the Ontario Legislature. So please sign up.
The peaceful rally at Queens Park was designed to send yet another message to local politicians that there are just too many unanswered questions relating to police brutality and the restriction of civil liberties during this event for it to ever be forgotten. The fraud of leaving two parked police cars unattended for hours hints at a devious political authority that wanted to ‘wag the dog’. It’s my opinion that the police chief Bill Blair and others at the top actually wanted the police vehicles to be demolished and set on fire for the benefit of the television cameras. The burning cars were used to justify his organization’s excessive use of force. Its a fact the Toronto Police Service did on that G20 Summit weekend round up and incarcerate hundreds of citizens that were gathered together to protest the government, and or otherwise exercise their Charter of Rights. The list of abuses is staggering and is perhaps a grim foreboding of a much darker future for all Canadians.
On December 7th 2010 Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin released his final report on the G20 Summit in Toronto Canada which identifies specifically the misuse of a wartime regulation known as the Public Works Protection Act which led to the largest mass arrest in Canadian history and a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. “For the citizens of Toronto the days up to and including the weekend of the G20 Summit will live in infamy as a time period where martial law set in the city of Toronto leading to the most massive compromise of civil liberties in Canadian history and we can never let that happen again” - Andre Marin.
During the G20 Summit in Toronto there were a great many incidents in which elected officials, the police chief and the individual supervisors and team leaders inside the Toronto Police Services took overly excessive actions that resulted in the suspension of a great many innocent people’s civil liberties. All over the downtown core innocent residents and peaceful protesters were snatched off the streets and thrown into cages, in many cases they were held without access to legal counsel, and in more than a few cases people were threatened or physically harmed by the police officers. The arrested citizens have to shoulder the psychological and financial burden of defending themselves. With lawsuits pending, and the police budget rising, in a recession, I must ask again, why has there been no public inquiry into the actions of the Toronto Police Services during the G20 Summit?
