Occupy Toronto @ Osgoode Hall - Police Brutality

[The Intransigent Faction]

[/URL]The video and some background:

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJAqF61qv0U (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJAqF61qv0U)

http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/police-brutality-osgoode-hall/10373

This has provoked a small but persistent protest against police brutality at 52 Division...of course if it's anything like more of this "shame on you! shame on you!", etc...they won't get anywhere. Any thoughts on this?

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tie it to historical police brutality on protestors, i know montreal cops and the RCMP have i reputation stretching back to the 60s at least.

[marl]

[/URL][URL="http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-toronto-blockade-response-police-violence/"]Comrades have set up barricades
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So much solidarity, personally and coming from #occupySF move in day, ill try to see if i can talk to organizers for a statement of solidarity to be read or something.

[blake 3:17]

It seems like BS police bullying. Toronto Police have been really kind of odd in how they've been policing demonstration -- the last few demos where I was worried about police violence were policed very calmly, then others that are calm are policed heavily and violently. It's unclear what level of the police force is making these decisions.

Some protest action is being planned for Friday, but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense given Easter/Passover. The FB event is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/217863461648147/


tie it to historical police brutality on protestors, i know montreal cops and the RCMP have i reputation stretching back to the 60s at least. Goes back way further in suppression of dissent. There are good commentator/historians on this, Gary Kinsman and Reg Whitaker.

This isn't out yet, but should be a valuable resource: http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Service-Political-Policing-Fortress/dp/080207801X