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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
Without provocation, they attacked our peaceful protest”
by: Adrian Naylor
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My name is Adrian Naylor. I am 23 years old, I live in Toronto and I work as a researcher for the History Department at the University of Toronto. On Sunday, June 27, I participated in a jail solidarity demonstration in support of friends and allies who have been held in detention by the police after participating in resistance to the G8/G20 in Toronto. We met in Jimmie Simpson Park at about 11am. Eventually there were about 100 of us, more or less. We discussed with police the route that we would take and the fact that we intended this to be a completely peaceful protest and that we wanted to meet our friends who were being released from detention with water, food, cigarettes (if they wanted) and TTC tokens. The police warned us that at the first sign of violence from us they would retaliate. We reassured them that it would be a completely peaceful protest – though we did ask them to guarantee that if they told us to disperse there would be an avenue for us to do so (unlike what happened at Queen’s Park yesterday). This was all filmed by a large number of media, both mainstream and alternative. In fact, two young women in our group were interviewed by the media. We walked from the park down Queen, down Logan, to Eastern and to the temporary detainment facility. We sang, chanted, and clapped our hands. We had one big banner. We were not particularly rowdy. We were escorted by police and followed their directions exactly in terms of where we should march, whether we should be on the road or the sidewalk, etc. We assembled across the street from the detention facility, where the police indicated we should stand. We chanted and clapped and sang in solidarity with our friends and comrades who were being detained. Two or three detainees were released to great excitement from us. Some of the protesters were drawing in chalk on the street. There was no engagement with the cops, beyond chanting some slogans like “Let them go!” and “When I say cops, you say criminals” etc. The chanting was not militant compared to other demonstrations I have attended, this week or otherwise. I didn’t see anyone talking to the police. I was interviewed by a female reporter about why I was there and I explained that I was there to support the detainees in detention and as they were released. I said that I felt that the vast majority of the detainees had been wrongly arrested. I don’t remember what news station the reporter was from. All of a sudden, an unmarked van pulled up and police in plainclothes jumped out and into the crowd. At the time I didn’t know what was happening, there was chaos, my partner Chris and I were pushed to one side of the street. From footage from mainstream media and from talking to people afterward, I learned that at least one person was arrested and dragged behind the police line and into the van. The arrest seemed targeted, but the violence wasn’t. A young woman with a small build near me was in tears because the police had hit her repeatedly with a baton. Some of us tried to comfort her as best we could. We were angry and scared, but we returned to the street and decided to sit down as a way of both deescalating the situation and of holding our ground. We continued to chant things like, “The whole world is watching” and “Peaceful protest!” and “We are peaceful, how ‘bout you?” We held out our hands in the peace sign. This didn’t last for long because all of a sudden the police came charging into our midst. I saw them kicking a man who refused to stand up. They fired what I thought were tear gas canisters into our midst. Certainly they hurt my throat, but according to the police they were just smoke bombs. They definitely fired rubber bullets into the crowd. It was terrifying. They chased us down the street. Chris and I ran with a group from Quebec and one protester who seemed to be on her own. As we left, we saw more police joining the contingent at the detention centre. We did not return to the site of the demonstration. As we listened to the radio on the way home, the coverage seemed to be that the police had seen “dangerous anarchists” in our midst. They reported “clashes” between police and protesters. THIS IS A LIE! We did not engage in ANY violence towards the police. Without provocation, they attacked our peaceful protest. We did not know what was happening. I think that it was purely retaliatory. I did not engage in any violence whatsoever (either towards people or property) throughout the protests I attended the week of the summits. Nor have I ever engaged in acts of violence towards anyone. Nothing I did, or indeed anyone else at this demonstration did, justified the way that the police terrorized us. I feel sick to my stomach I am so anxious. Following the incident, I was afraid to be outside my home. When I pass police in the streets the feeling of terror returns to me. I DEMAND A FULL PUBLIC (INDEPENDENT) INQUIRY OF POLICE VIOLENCE DURING THE G8/G20 SUMMIT. I am including links to video coverage of the police violence I experienced. In some of the videos you can see me. I have short hair, am wearing a white hat, a white and gray striped shirt and jean shorts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiLt40d_AbU http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20100627/g20-protests-100627/ http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/audio/firsthand-report-arrests-tear-gas-beatings-peaceful-demonstrators-detention-centre/3874 http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/topic/g20/article/79986–police-use-muzzle-blasts-to-control-crowd-in-east-end Sincerely, Adrian Naylor