Protestors Burn An effigy Of A Pig Downtown Toronto
David Cooper / Toronto Star
David Cooper / Toronto Star
On Friday night, an 18-year-old man was shot by Toronto police. Witnesses have said that they saw a man on a subway train holding what appeared to be a gun before police arrived.
A witness named Jessica Wong, told media that she was on the train when police approached a man and told him to put his hands where they could see them, with the man yelling back “I don’t have anything to live for any ways.”
Toronto police officers had their guns drawn and pointed at the man, when the passengers ran off of the train. Moments later 15 shots where heard and the man was rushed to the hospital. The SIU is now investigating the case.
On Sunday evening a handful of what some will call “professional protestors”, went to the downtown subway station to hold a rally about the shooting.
One of the protestors, Sakura Saunders has been quoted in several main stream articles of stating: “frontline officers are too quick to shoot in confrontations and that only senior officers should have guns”, “They shot somebody who was clearly having a mental breakdown”,
As a person who has zero tolerance for police violence. These statements really do perplex me. On one hand I agree, maybe the man could have been talked down and 15 shots is quite excessive. But on the other hand, the police where dealing with an obviously distraught man armed with a gun, in a public place. Saunders was not present at the time of the shooting, in fact non of the protestors where. Do they know that the man did not point the gun at an officer (or some one else)? No. Non of us do.
This case is very different then that Sammy Yatim one, the Steve Mesic case, or any of the others that we have covered. In that this man was armed with a gun.
What perplexes me even further is how any of these protestors think that they’re actions Sunday evening did anything than make them look bad.
After marching down Young Street, the protestors burned a effigy of a pig in front of the Eatons center. While chanting the usual robotic chant of “cops, pigs, murderers” and “who do you protect, who do you serve”.
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I am very curious on why any of these protestors where not arrested. Go light something on fire in the middle of the street and watch what happens to you. But they some how do it without anything happening? They even prevented the fire truck from responding to the fire.
Once again. Go prevent a fire truck from responding to a fire and watch what happens to you.
I have been told by people who where at the scene that not a single uniformed officer was present during the whole ordeal. Even though it went on for over an hour and the TTC was forced to divert services. Are the Toronto police scared of this group of black block “anarcho-communists”? I highly doubt that. So I have to ask, what exactly is going on? Why are police letting these people get away with whatever they want?
That question becomes even bigger when you factor in that these protestors have been directly linked to the protestors who engaged in black block tactics at the G20 in 2010, and have also been saying that they will be using the same tactics for the Pan Am games.
Something really smells bad in this! I am unable to tell, if the Toronto police are just using them as “useful idiots” or if the police are directly involved with them.
Main stream media is stating that questions are being raised about police use of force. I am asking the question of why these people are acting with impunity.
Ron you should watch a documentary called “G20 Exposed” it would change your views on this issue. Burning a police car has been done by police many times in history to legitimize using lethal force, look up burning police car Romania, police had to publicly apologize about that.
Also in Montebello Quebec, the police were caught dressed up as protesters throwing rocks at officers at the G8 Summit to legitmize lethal force. They also had to publicly apologize as well.
And I don’t know what you’re talking about Ron, the black bloc were rioting without the cops, you seem pretty ignorant on what actually happened that day. There is footage from several cameras that out of uniform police officers were literally kidnapping grabbing people and shoving them into vehicles. I have friends who were beat because they were wearing ‘truther’ shirts, who were peaceful. Why did the police choose to use lethal force on the peaceful protesters at the Toronto G20? Why didn’t they use lethal force on the people who were actually rioting in the streets?
If you watch the documentary G20 Exposed, you can see the ONLY PEOPLE rioting were people in masks.. there was literally NO ONE ELSE rioting. The black bloc even started to rip up blocks out of the sidewalk to encourage people to use them to throw them, guess what? No one did. And all the sudden you see black bloc clothes on the ground and all the black bloc fucks disappeared into teh crowd, and once they dissappeared the coward police made a move.
And thanks for confirming that the police are afraid of unarmed anarchist lol
Sorry, you guys are retards… You think that much thought is involved?
Police were there in street clothes with units on standby a couple blocks away.
The Bloc idiots had their moment and left. If the police came in, there would have been a riot.
You might actually say, the police used “de-escalation tactics” to minimize property damage and potential SIU involvement for “abusing power”.
Now that it seems that every arrest is filmed on a cellphone, and the cop is ripped apart by the whole world. Why would they go in? Cause we all know there would be people resisting the arrest, and media like this site would demand the officers get fired for doing their job.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Whether or not the cops are directly involved with Black Bloc is one issue, but it’s clear why they leave them alone (just like they did at the G20). It’s because they are the boogieman. they can use them as a scape goat as to why they’re militarizing themselves, and why we need to have our rights taken away and become prisoners in our own country. In reality, these Black Bloc losers could be dealt with swiftly and with justice, but that would remind people that they are not in constant danger. They don’t want people realizing how miniscule these threats actually are, they don’t want people realizing that it’s actually the government and “law enforcement” who, historically, have been the most violent, ruthless, and dangerous organizations.
This is a prime example of how the police let these knuckleheads break whichever laws they choose, whereas the rest of us have to live by a different and more strict standard. I hope the cops and government officials read this so I can tell them that A)I am sick of being a victim of political policing, AND B)I am sick of the hypocrisy of this policy, and how they deny that is what they are doing even though it is BLATANTLY OBVIOUS! IT IS BLATANTLY OBVIOUS THAT WHAT THESE PEOPLE ARE DOING IS AN INSIDE JOB DUE TO THE COMPLACENCY OF THE POLICE IN UPHOLDING THE LAW’s STANDARDS EQUALLY FOR EVERY MEMBER OF SOCIETY.
The cops doing nothing are every bit as scummy as these communist protestors are.