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"Catch & Release"
by Nathan Adler
7/16/2010 12:11:00 PM
Jail experience harrowing
by Skylar Radojkovic, Owen Sound Sun Times
7/13/2010
Bad News at Bancroft Avenue
by Dylan C. Robertson
7/13/2010
Arrested And Jailed In Toronto – A G20 Protestor’s Firsthand Account
by Sarah Pruyn
7/7/2010
Of my illegal detention (with 899 others) and the G20 protests
by Ben Powless, Organizer, Defenders of the Land
7/5/2010
Independent Journalist, Daniel Adam MacIsaac
by Ali Mustafa
7/5/2010
Ashamed
by Tracey Cox
7/3/2010
"The story of my unjust arrest" - Lacy MacAuley
by Lacy MacAuley
7/1/2010 10:32:00 PM
Without provocation, they attacked our peaceful protest”
by Adrian Naylor
7/1/2010
One woman held by police 'didn't even know what the G20 was'
by Alison Hendersen
7/1/2010
“They were going to release us until this one cop came and saw that we had the legal number written on our arms. She then said that we were elegible for arrest.”
by Anonymous
7/1/2010
“several police officers lining the west side of the street had removed their names and badge numbers”
by Anonymous
7/1/2010
“they were detaining me until I told them where I was staying in Toronto”
by Anonymous
7/1/2010
“They demanded identification and searches of bags and persons, without cause, and under the threat of physical violence, detention and legal action”
by Anonymous
7/1/2010
“I was beat roughly 20 times with batons”
by Anonymous
7/1/2010
“blood poured out of his head, down his face and on to my friends jacket, dripping on my pants”
by Bethany Horne
7/1/2010
Queen & John Eyewitness Report
by Emily B.
7/1/2010
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by James
7/1/2010
“I cannot stress this enough: it was a completely peaceful protest. People were being arrested in a brutal, violent, and seemingly random way.”
by Johanna Lewis
7/1/2010
“I was there as a monitor for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. . . like many others, I was never given an opportunity to remove myself from the intersection”
by Julia Croome
7/1/2010
“It is important to note the horrid conditions in the jail. The cells, which were over-glorified dog cages, were often over-crowded.”
by Maximilian Pacheco
7/1/2010
“I have been having nightmares”
by Natasha Borris
7/1/2010
“At no time during the detention was anyone in my cage allowed to speak with a lawyer”
by Philip Boyle
7/1/2010
“police said they had the right to conduct these searches”
by Robert Bertuzzi
7/1/2010
what happened last night at queen and spadina g20
by Rodrigo Bravo
7/1/2010
Violence on Toronto streets for G20
by Ryan Bolton
7/1/2010
“Five officers grabbed me, hit me repeatedly with batons and fists, threw me to the concrete, crushed knees into my cheek bone, back and thighs, dragged me on the pavement and put handcuffs on me”.
by Seamus Wolfe
7/1/2010
“I couldn’t sleep last night. I took the day off work, I’m so upset”
by Sherry B. Good
7/1/2010
“I saw many injured detainees with arms in slings and faces bruised and swollen being led quickly with their ankles chained”
by Taiva Tegler
7/1/2010
“In a matter of seconds, without warning, we were trapped. Our questions were met with blank stares, our panic with more pushing, complaints with arrest”
by Terra Dafoe
7/1/2010
“we were staging a peaceful protest when riot police surrounded us on all sides and would not let us leave”
by Trevor Grant
7/1/2010
Of a million G20 stories in this taken city, this was mine
If anything, there was less black being worn on Queen than usual
by Tabatha Southey
7/1/2010
Personal Experience
by Greg Stones
7/1/2010
'Unlawful Assembly'
by Syl Grady
7/1/2010
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by Karen Nickel
7/1/2010
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by Anonymous
7/1/2010
Mourning Canadian democracy
by Roberta McQuade
7/1/2010
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by Kiel Widmeyer
7/1/2010
In His Own Words (Interview Transcript)
by Jesse Rosenfeld
7/1/2010
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by Neil Stanton
7/1/2010
Singer Marc Mysterio caught in Toronto riots during video shoot
by Marc Mysterio
7/1/2010
Thorold, Ontario Amputee Has His Artificial Leg Ripped Off By Police And Is Slammed In Makeshift Cell During G20 Summit – At Least One Ontario MPP Calls The Whole Episode “Shocking”
by John Pruyn
7/1/2010
How I Got Arrested and Abused at the G20 in Toronto, Canada
by Tommy Taylor
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7/1/2010
Man and family being picked up from work brutality attacked by police
by Anonymous
7/1/2010
and this time, it won't be me.
by A Canadian Serviceman
7/1/2010
Fear and mayhem in Toronto
by Lawrence McCurry
7/1/2010
My Experience
by Jesse Miller
7/1/2010
Inside Torontanamo
by Matt Shultz
7/1/2010
Beaten by police before being arrested
by Andrew Stakhov
7/1/2010
Don't breathe or I'll kill you
by Facebook User: Drew Ferguson
7/1/2010
“I was held for 21 hours for peacefully protesting.”
by Marc Gleeson
6/30/2010
Thugs take over Queen's Park
by Matthew Webb
6/29/2010 10:08:00 AM
How I Ended Up In A G20 Jail
by Michael Talbot
6/29/2010
Union Station Washroom
by Andrei Poliakov
6/28/2010 5:30:00 PM
I was just harassed by Toronto Police
by Mike Brock, Western Standard
6/28/2010
Sonia's Story
by Sonia Zawitkowski
6/27/2010
Luke's Story
by Luke Keeler
6/27/2010
Someone call 911!
by Eda Martinovic
6/27/2010
Selwyn arrested at G20 protest
by Selwyn Firth, Mayoral Candidate
6/27/2010
Civil Rights, Interrupted: A G20 Arrest
by Mark Donald
6/26/2010
My Story - Help ID This Criminal!
by Wyndham Bettencourt-McCarthy
6/26/2010
Pre-G20 Atrocities
by Sean Salvati
6/23/2010
Eye Witness Accounts
Queen & John Eyewitness Report
by: Emily B.
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I witnessed what I think was the first instance of violence during the Saturday march, at Queen St. and John St.: a group called No One Is Illegal, protesting against immigration policies tried to break off from the main march. In previous interviews, they had expressed that the fence around the world leaders was a symbol of the fences and borders that oppress people every day, and for them, it was an important strategy to approach the fence and protest it. However, their attempt to move down the street to the fence was blocked by police who didn’t hesitate to use batons against those at the front of the march. I was with a good friend who has medical training and helped her get four, then five people out of the way of the advancing, violent police line. I held a man as blood poured out of his head, down his face and on to my friends jacket, dripping on my pants. My friend, who could see his skull through the deep gash, covered the wound and told him to hold it. Calls to 911 were fruitless: the ambulance never came. Another man with a head-wound next to me was going into shock. The medics with him loudly asked the crowd that was still marching past us to give us any extra clothing they had on, to cover him and to hold his spinal cord steady. People threw us their extra sweaters, and t-shirts. The man’s eyes stared into nothingness, flickered and glassed over, and no ambulance came for half an hour. We called 911 so many times. I personally approached police officers who were dressed in the green jackets of the “Community Relations” police, and asked them to intervene, to let medical help through the blockades they had set up along all sides of the street. They said they could do nothing. The march had already long passed us by. We heard, however, that police had deployed tear gas and the back of the march was doubling back and coming back through where we were, so we had to make a decision. We decided to move the injurd, even though there was a rish of furthering spinal chord injuries. We held the first man with the head injury between us, and walked him and another less woozy guy all the way to Mt. Sinai Hospital. We left the man who was almost unconscious with three other medics behind. They were going to use five people to try to move him into a van, to get him somewhere an ambulance would pick him up. I know it took them a long, long time to accomplish that. We all thought he was going to die. That was the most dramatic situation I was in. However, I was at several demo’s that were kettled by police. I posted one video here: http://vimeo.com/12894044 After this, there was a negotiation during which the police said that if people dispersed peacefully, they would let them go. They made us wait what seemed like an eternity in that emotionally and physically charged situation. People were crying, there were a few differently abled people who were especially vulnerable. They said: leave through the west, but they didn’t open a spot through which we could leave. Instead, they doubled up the line of riot cops to the west, and then changed the formation so that it was more spaced out. They held up their shields, some held batons, and they made us walk through one by one , weaving through the now four lines of the loose formation of cops. As people walked through, they were felt up by cops, and some bags subjected to illegal searches (illegal because the person would say “This is a violation of my rights” but stopped short of denying consent, because it was very clear what the result of that would be: immediate arrest). My medic friend was searched in this way: a police officer said “This one has a heavy bag!” And pulled her by her arm to prevent her from leaving. After going through her gauze, bandages, water bottles, etc, he let her go.We left quickly. I have heard mixed reports about what happened to some of the people who were behind us. Some were, indeed, arrested. I was also at the clearing out of Queen’s Park by mounted police. There are several videos of that. What I witnessed was a long, long line of police corralling a peaceful crowd. Police on horses, police banging batons, police snatching people, people running scared, yet still being pushed back, threatened, and intimidated. I was also at the march against police brutality yesterday. I was subjected to several illegal searches. In my opinion, the police force got entirely out of hand, criminalized journalists and peaceful protesters, and must respond to their actions. My story of Saturday was posted first here: http://www.j-source.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=5308#ixzz0sGJJwbGF My coverage of G20 for OpenFile.ca is in progress, and will contain more mentions of things I saw. If you want more detail about anything you read in there, I’m willing. I also know several people who eye-witnessed other things, like police provocateurs breaking into a crowd and pushing people around. Also, they drove people to and from the film studios detention centre, hearing all the first hand accounts of intimidation and inhumane treatment of detainees.