Thursday, July 15, 2010

The People’s G20 Most Wanted List

The Toronto Police have release their ’10 Most Wanted’ list of G20 hooligans, primarily targeting the people who vandalized stripped down police cars. Here is the public list of the real thugs from the G20 weekend; of course there are more than ten and the ranking is debatable.



10. Officer Bubbles almost didn’t make this list; all he did was demonstrate the authoritative attitude that security forces took during the G20 weekend. He has also unwillingly provided us with a calling card for resistance to a police state...Bubbles for Peace!



9. This is one of the bullies who forcefully arrested a screaming woman in the middle of the ‘kettle formation’ at Queen & Spadina. All citizens were peacefully explaining to officers that they were not doing anything wrong, then the cops picked them off one by one.



8. The driver of this van was involved in a snatch and grab arrest; other police in the van are just as guilty. Apparently some people were driven to Scarborough and dumped to fend for themselves; others were eventually taken to the Eastern Avenue detention center. It is scary when unidentified gangs have legal authority to kidnap.



7. Before firing tear gas into a crowd of people waving peace signs, this young cop looked over his shoulder to confirm his orders. Following orders is no excuse; if he had a machine gun rather than tear gas he might have used that as well.
Note: as it turns out, he was actually shooting rubber bullets at Natalie Gray



6. This asshole was caught on video beating seated people with a club and then pepper-spraying them in the eyes. He deserves to go to jail; we also don’t want him to ever carry a badge again.



5. In fifth position of the People’s G20 Most Wanted List are the dozens of uniformed officers who assaulted, molested, bullied and humiliated peaceful protesters and innocent bystanders on the streets and in the detention centre. We can only hope that the good cops (and there are many) recognize how their reputation has been tarnished, break their code of silence and speak up.



4. Until the G20 fiasco, Bill Blair was actually doing a good job. He was also not in charge of the security forces. Just as the hockey coach gets fired when the team plays poorly, Blair is the scapegoat. For allowing things to get out of hand, then publicly supporting police actions while condemning ‘protesters’, Blair has lost the respect of citizens.



3. Dalton McGuinty actually had little to do with G20 planning or security enforcement. He makes this list for three reasons; A) Allowing a quick change to the law that permitted police to search and arrest anyone; B) Pushing through new taxes that hurt everyone in Ontario; C) Not having the balls to call for an inquiry.



2. Stephen Harper is a quiet economist; however he is also Prime Minister and responsible for what happened here. He thinks everything went well at the G8/G20 which shows how out of touch he is with Canadians. He sold out Canada; watch as his budget cuts are rolled out to meet deficit agreements. He also sold out the world by escalating the tar sands projects. He is doing more damage than any Prime Minister ever!



1. Mystery Man? Who was really in charge of the Integrated Forces? Military operations work under a pyramid structure; someone gave the orders to stand back while Black Block tore up the streets and then gave orders for police to bully and arrest. Someone high up thinks it is okay to push around citizens, to reduce and eliminate civil rights, and to use weapons on peaceful protesters. We must discover who is behind these decisions and remove this cancer from the Canadian power structure.

What do we want? Public Inquiry.
When do we want it? Now!

4 comments:

  1. I have been thinking that we should all be writing to all of the G-20 participating nations to see if they have any qualms about being passive accomplices to the overwhelming abuse of police powers at the G-20 gathering in Toronto. some of the G-20 countries at least superficially support human rights. At least their hypocrisy deserves public recognition.

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  2. With respect to your #7 most wanted man, I need to make a correction. He shot two rubber bullets, which both wounded the same protestor. (This protestor is shown lying on the ground in the video recordings of this event.) Tear gas was also shot; by another officer standing close by. Right after the shooting, a group of police, which included these two, stormed the protestors and arrested the young woman they had shot down. The cop shooting the young woman has been identified as "Paul Ramos" on another site, although the spelling is not verified. No badge number yet, though.

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  3. Power to the people

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  4. Thanks to Liam for pointing out that number 7 was actually firing rubber bullets; it turns out that the orders being shouted at him were to aim for the girl with the blue hair, story available here:
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/24/g20-rubber-bullets.html

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