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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
“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
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I was among those detained and arrested at Queen and Spadina on Sunday, June 27, 2010. I am a lawyer practicing in the area of civil litigation, mainly in relation to environmental and planning law, and was there as a monitor for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA). The CCLA monitors were tasked with taking notes as neutral observers in order to provide a record to evaluate possible Charter issues arising from the G20 protests. I was accompanied by two other monitors who, like me, were wearing the uniform white shirt and white cap with “Canadian Civil Liberties Association” stitched onto the back. Like many others, I was never given an opportunity to remove myself from the intersection. If announcements were made, neither I nor the other two CCLA monitors heard them before we were surrounded on all sides by lines of riot police at approximately 6:10pm. I stood in the rain for approximately 2 hours. I was beckoned forward out of the crowd and my hands were restrained with zip ties behind my back. I waited in line with many others for about another 45 minutes. An arrest sheet was filled out by the officer in charge of me. My possessions were bagged. It is probably worth noting that the officer who had charge of me, who was from Niagara, was inclined to release me, upon being informed of my circumstances, but did not seem to think that he could do so. I was cuffed with my hands to the front of my body and put in the back of a court services van with 5 other women. By this stage I had told two officers about the reason for my presence at the intersection. There were approximately 6-7 men on the other side of the vehicle. The door was closed and we sat for about 20 minutes, before the van began to move. Although we assumed that we would be taken to the detention center at Eastern Avenue it became clear, after driving on a highway for more that 15 minutes, that we were being taken somewhere else. We did not know where. The drive lasted approximately 30-45 minutes. We stopped and sat for 5-10 more minutes. An officer opened the back of the truck to check the spelling of my name as it was not clear from the arrest sheet. I let this officer know that several of the women needed a washroom. He promised to come back. Another officer returned and took one of those women out of the truck. I asked him where we were. He simply answered 43 Division. He came back several minutes later to remove another woman, and at this point informed us that we were in Scarborough. Women were removed one by one. When I was taken from the truck I was walked to another room where I was told that I was being released unconditionally. I was then walked through the station, uncuffed, and my belongings returned to me. I asked to use a phone as my cell phone had died and was told that there was not one available, and that I would have to walk to the nearest intersection – Morningside and Lawrence – to find one. We were all told to leave the premises promptly or that we would be charged with something else. It was now full dark (approximately 10:30pm) and I could not see the closest intersection from outside the station. Consequently, myself and three others hailed a cab passing by the station which we took back downtown. The fare was split three ways, as one of us did not have any cash or debit/credit. This chronology is as factual as possible. The above is a simplified outline of the events as they happened, drawn from notes that I took at the time, and a recollection that I wrote down immediately upon my return home on Sunday night. I am supporting an immediate public inquiry because as we move away from the events of last week it may become increasingly easy to let go of our sense that what happened was not in keeping with the rights and freedoms that we associate with Canada, particularly given the messaging by the Toronto police and some others. I know that I did not recognize Canada in the events that I experienced.