RCMP watchdog launches G8, G20 probe

[CHIMO]

Source: The Canadian Press

OTTAWA—The RCMP watchdog has launched a public-interest investigation into policing of the G8 and G20 meetings, the latest in a string of probes of violent summit clashes and mass arrests.

The Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP said Friday it was acting on a complaint from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association about the conduct of Mounties involved with the joint international summits in Ontario last June.

Leaders of the G8 countries gathered in cottage country near Huntsville, Ont., before joining other politicians for the G20 summit in Toronto.

More than 1,000 people were arrested at the G20 meeting amid extensive damage to shops and cars in the city's downtown.



Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/886629--rcmp-watchdog-launches-g8-g20-probe?bn=1

[Bozita]

1. Too many videos out there

Cops were everywhere, but cop cars burned on an empty street?

Citizens unmasked one of the violent ones. Yup, he was another cop.

Too damned many videos out there for the RCMP to ignore.

[NYMdaveNYI]

2. those fucking pigs, they used provocateurs, just like at G20 Pittsburgh 2009 nt

[Bozita]

3. Here, catch some of these videos ...

Like I said, there's a lot of 'em.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=toronto+g20&aq=f

[EFerrari]

4. Franklin Lopez had some on his show with hilarious commentary.

Three or four obvious cops walking around with earbuds in. Protesters went right up to them and asked for their badges. A couple of them later seen going behind the cop line.

[JohnyCanuck]

5. G8/G20 Communique: G20 news and legal fall out

By Krystalline Kraus


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Much has been made in the Canadian media of the "bogus law" passed by the Ontario legislation under the Public Works Protection Act to provide police with sweeping extraordinary powers in and around the security perimeter of the summit. Several liberal commentators have complained that the law was passed in secret; in fact, it was passed discreetly June 2, and was only discovered by the media on the first day of the summit, June 25, three days before the temporary measure was scheduled to be revoked.

They have also complained that Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair lied about its scope until the day after the Summit and that Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty did nothing to dispel the ambiguity surrounding the matter.

Blair did publicly state that the extraordinary law permitted cops to stop and search anyone within five meters of the fence, and to arrest and detain anyone who resisted or failed to comply. In fact, the temporary law only applied to the area within the security fence.

When he showed up in court on July 28, Dave Vasey, the only person who was arrested under this sham, was told that his papers had been "lost" either by the police or the Crown in what appears to be a clumsy attempt to make this embarrassing business go away.

The untold story here is that the cops were not only doing illegal searches and detentions within 5 meters of the perimeter, but throughout the entire Toronto downtown area. Thousands of incidents occurred in which people were randomly stopped on the sidewalk, asked for ID, and threatened with arrest if they did not comply.

Illegal searches and arbitrary seizures were common throughout the week preceding the summit and continued until several days after it; friends and allies who stayed behind to support detainees were constantly stopped and aggressively interrogated.

So while liberals are focusing on the bark on the tree, everybody is forgetting the jungle behind. Anarchists, at least, are honest about not believing in the legitimacy of the legal system. It is absolutely despicable for the authorities to insist on the system's legitimacy while disregarding it whenever it is convenient for them, and pathetically naïve that some liberals still believe in it despite all the evidence that they are alone in this.

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/statica/2010/09/g8g20-communiqu%C3%A9-g20-news-and-legal-fall-out