A group of protesters that demonstrated at a rally in support of Palestinians over the weekend in Toronto say a man who was protesting was injured during his arrest — which included an officer kneeling on his neck, something Toronto's former police chief said officers are not trained to do.
/me: Checks videos… sees a VERY clear still from the video clear and unquestionably showing a police office with his knee on the neck of the man on the ground.
Police and politicians should all have body cams. You get to make life and death decisions for the public and you are paid out of the public’s wallet, you should be held accountable for every minute you are on the clock (breaks and washroom excepted). No political deal should happen without video evidence and no police interaction should go un-recorded for the protection of both the police and the public.
There were at least a dozen of those pigs and they couldn’t restrain one guy? Who was he, Andre the Fucking Giant? He must have owed that pig some money I guess. By the way, did anyone see that Derek Chauvin got stabbed in prison the other week?
Former Toronto Police Services Board chair Alok Mukherjee told CBC News he was surprised to see the way the protester was restrained.
“This video seems to suggest that police officers on the ground are still doing the things they’re not supposed to be doing,” he said.
“I think it raises questions of how is it that there were so many police and they could not restrain one person without using knee-to-neck restraint.”
lol … even with obvious irrefutable evidence they still act surprised that they broke regulation and even laws regarding assault.
How do you expect anyone to respect authority when everyone knows that authority doesn’t even want to follow their own rules … let alone basic respect for people.
Interested to know when the got the PL VAR officials ruling on police video evidence. We looked at the footage, there was no knee on the neck. Beg pardon? Which footage?
To be honest, I’m guessing that they’re trained to push their body weight into the person’s back, but only trained in a controlled environment with compliant trainers, rather than someone out in the open with others yelling, screaming, and throwing objects while the subject is trying to resist.
Ten guys try to do it with minimal training in terrible situations, and at least one of them is going to fuck it up like this. While on camera since everybody’s got one in their pocket nowadays.
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