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“Eventually the [police] car stopped outside a small house … and let me off”

After doing an interview with CBC on Sunday morning outside the detention centre, they came up behind me, grabbing each of my arms while they said “you’re under arrest!” They took the wooden bowls I had brought, asking “are these … Continue reading

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“I am a witness to police abuse.”

I am a witness to police abuse. On Saturday afternoon between 5-6 (I didn’t check my watch) I was walking south on Avenue Road towards Bloor Street when I saw a line of riot police a few people deep formed … Continue reading

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Alison – “One girl in my cage who began to cry said ‘I just don’t understand how people can treat other people like this'”

This is What Democracy Looks Like? My name is Alison Henderson and I was one of the innocent protestors arrested at the G20 Summit protest on Saturday June 26, 2010. I attended the protest to fulfill my democratic obligation as … Continue reading

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“The complete opposite of what everyone else saw”

I doubt if you’ll print this as it’s the complete opposite of what everyone else saw. I was outside of the foyer of my apartment on Soho st. when I saw some random cops on bikes riding down. There were … Continue reading

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“I witnessed police confiscating personal property and demanding they search peoples’ belongings”

On June 25 as I was approaching Allen Gardens to participate in and video the rally and march, I witnessed police confiscating personal property and demanding they search peoples’ belongings. I stopped to video this and was physically moved aside … Continue reading

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Stephen – “‘You cocksucker Black Bloc douchebags’, yelled an officer directly into my ear, ‘You think you are so fucking tough? How are you now without your faggot friends?'”

A Political Prisoner, With No Political Affiliation Personal Memories from the G20 Detention Center After a morning walk on a whim around the walled in downtown corridor, my interest in Journalism had returned like a blazing wild fire. G20 fever … Continue reading

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“shut the fuck up you’re all under arrest that’s why you’re here”

Compared to some of the horror stories I have heard over the past few days of how people have been treated by police, I feel as though my story is not extreme enough to warrant my anger. However, my most … Continue reading

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“Repeated requests for phone calls and lawyers were denied.”

Myself, along with my two friends, A and B, were attending the peaceful protest at the Novotel on the Esplanade when, along with hundreds of other people (protestors, journalists/photographers and simple onlookers), we were arrested around 11pm. At first our … Continue reading

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Siobhan – “they were going to strip search me … this feeling, this experience, is the hardest for me to reconcile and one of the times in my life I have felt the most powerless”

We went to Toronto to protest. I’m not going to lie about that because I don’t feel like I should have to. We went to protest the G8/G20 in Toronto because we wanted to exercise our right to protest something … Continue reading

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“I don’t know why weapons were used, firing into a crowd of innocent protesters”

On Saturday, June 27th, 2010 after hearing of several police clashes throughout the city, my friends and I decided to make our way back to the designated ‘free speech zone’ at Queen’s Park. We did not expect to see lines … Continue reading

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