By Frank Moher How is it that Bill Blair is still Toronto’s Chief of Police this morning? How is it that, in the wake of the damning OIPRD report on the “policing” of the G20 summit in 2010, he hasn’t stepped down? How is it he isn’t waking up in his PJs at home this […]
Bill Blair’s G20 alibi
By Alison@Creekside An interview with Andre Marin, Ontario Ombudsman and author of the G20 report “Caught in the Act,” sheds a little light on the blackout surrounding who was responsible for ordering kettling at the G20 a year ago. Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, as we have previously heard, had not heard of the term kettling […]
SIU tries, tries again to identify G20 cop thug
By Alison@Creekside Oversight – noun 1) the action of overseeing something 2) an omission, the failure to do something Dorian Barton was taking a picture of police horses in the park at the G20 summit in downtown Toronto last summer when he was suddenly knocked to the ground from behind with a riot shield, beaten with a […]
The G20: Bill Blair and “preventive detention”
By Alison@Creekside At the Public Safety Committee yesterday, Toronto Chief Bill Blair lobbed the following statement about “preventive detention” at the G20 into the proceedings [just before the 4 minute mark]: “I think you are all familiar with images of members of that group who were smashing windows, burning cars, looting stores, and generally causing […]
“Lay Off Officer Bubbles”: the video
By Frank Moher Last week we reported on the ongoing saga of Officer Bubbles, the Toronto cop who became infamous during the G20 for threatening to bust a bubble-blowing protestor. Constable Bubbles, you will recall (or maybe not), has launched a 1.2 million dollar lawsuit against YouTube for hosting cartoons and comments deriding him, while […]
Officer Bubbles: the poem
By Frank Moher The saga of Officer Bubbles continues. The Toronto Police Services constable (aka Adam Josephs) became notorious during the G20 for threatening to arrest a particularly pacific young woman if she continued to blow bubbles in his vicinity. “If the bubble touches me,” he growled, “you’re going to be arrested for assault.” “Bubbles?” […]
The further persecution of Gary McCullough
By Alison@Creekside By the time G20 arrestee Gary McCullough has his next court date in December, he will have spent six months locked up without bail for no other reason than the police and courts are unable to admit they should never have arrested him in the first place. Police admitted within hours of his […]
Anatomy of a G20 mishmash
By Frank Moher The massive article, “Anatomy of the G20,” published by the Toronto Star last Friday, is a curious document indeed, especially coming from a newspaper that has taken a hard editorial line against the police’s actions that weekend. It feels like one of those articles that has gone all wonky as higher-ups got […]
