* “I know that some folks feel that their rights have been abridged, and there are avenues available to them and I would encourage them to pursue any remedies that are available to them through those avenues,” he said.
Feel their rights have been abridged? Are you fucking serious?
Hey McGuinty have you seen this?
I was now around 2:00am. I’ve been held since 10:30pm, not read my rights, not explained anything, not yet charged, no phone call. And in an overcrowded cell with no access to water. Every guy had to pee; there was a line around the inside of the cell to piss. Trying to pee with your hand cuffed together was horrible…but we all managed…the outhouse was messy. No toilet paper. So, here we all were. Ages from 16-78. Three German men asked why the guard made a joke about Auschwitz. They were here from Germany, left a bar, got arrested. They said they had no idea Canada was like this; they said the world thought we were free. The said “poor Canadians, this is shame”.
In police custody for 6 hours now, no water, no anything. We start to get worried. We are still very polite guards “Please, we need water. Please help us. Please help this 16-year-old kid. Please split us up, we can’t even all sit in here”. We look at the camera and beg for help. We can hear people in the other cells yelling and begging for water. We hear a girl ‘Please! I need my medication! HELP ME!”. I yell “Help that girl, what the hell is going on here!” Other cages begin to yell. I find out later this girl was in my girlfriends cell and was way passed her medication time. The male officers were laughing in at her and tapping their keys along the bars leering at the girls in wet clothes. Finally two female officers took the girl away. They also had a 17-year-old girl in her cage as well. Still thirsty.
What about this?
G20 Toronto Police Rape Threats
“the journalist identified himself as working for ‘the guardian.’ he talked too much and pissed the police off. two officers held him….”
the journalist identified himself as working for "the guardian." he talked too much and pissed the police off. two officers held him….
— Steve Paikin (@spaikin) June 27, 2010
“a third punched him in the stomach. totally unnecessary. the man collapsed. then the third officer drove his elbow into the man’s back.”
a third punched him in the stomach. totally unnecessary. the man collapsed. then the third officer drove his elbow into the man's back.
— Steve Paikin (@spaikin) June 27, 2010
And as for the Tories well hardly surprising they don’t want an investigation but are more than willing to make political hay on the backs of the abused.
* “I don’t think we need a public inquiry to do that and I don’t think we should spend millions of dollars, and that’s what it would do . . . I don’t think we can afford to do that right now. I just think the premier — in good faith — should apologize on behalf of the government.”
An apology is NOT going to make this go away. It is NOT enough. But it would be a start to the appropriate course of action for a man in charge of a province and city who saw war declared on it’s citizens.
*quotes from The Star
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