Toronto cops protect one of their own from facing brutality charges.

[JohnyCanuck]

Activist Communique: More G20 questions than answers

By Krystalline Kraus May 27, 2011

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Barton was arrested -- and allegedly beaten by police -- before being taken to the Eastern Avenue Detention Centre where he was held for a total of 30 hours. Charged with obstructing a police officer and unlawful demonstration, these charges were one of the first to be dropped at an August 23, 2010 court appearance.

Among the injuries Barton alleged he sustained at the hands of the Toronto police were a shattered upper right arm. He did receive some medical attention during his incarceration at the Eastern Avenue Detention Centre, though he had to wait for hours in excruciating pain from that broken arm.

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This week, reporting on the reopened SIU investigation into Barton's allegations -- in which he firmly stands -- SIU director Ian Scott claims that the police are still unable to identify the officer that allegedly beat Barton. This is despite the fact that one of the witness officers actually bunked with the officer that allegedly attacked Barton, and yet this witness officer still claims they cannot identify him.

Photographer Andrew Wallace had provided to the SIU a picture of an unnamed officer while Barton's arrests takes place. Wallace said he saw the officer strike Barton and yet it is pictures like these -- as well as video evidence -- from which eleven officers were unable to indentify their colleague.

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/krystalline-kraus/2011/05/activist-communiqu%C3%A9-more-g20-questions-answers

Of course many of the cops policing the G20 had, contrary to orders, purposely taken off their name tags and badge numbers so that when they did beat the crap out of protesters they would be harder to identify.