Allegations of abuse by women detained during the G20 summit will be included in an 11-year investigation into how Toronto police investigate sexual violence against women.
The activist known as Jane Doe, women’s studies professor Beverly Bain and Toronto Rape Crisis Centre counsellor Grissel Orellana are to present their report to Toronto Police Services at 1 p.m. Thursday.
Toronto police “are unfit to conduct a review against themselves. They are not equipped to investigate themselves,” Farrah Miranda, a spokeswoman for the activist group G20 Mobilization Network, told the Star on Thursday.
That is the message Doe, the pseudonym of a woman who successfully sued police in 1986 after she was raped, and the others will deliver at their morning news conference and in their report, said Miranda.
“This is the culmination of an 11-year process. Women’s groups are connecting the G20 violence against women with the ongoing police violence against women.”
Allegations of sexual abuse first surfaced as women were being released from the Eastern Ave. detention centre during the June 26-27 weekend that brought world leaders and thousands of demonstrators to Toronto.
Among those making allegations was Amy Miller, who will present a video at the Thursday news conference, Miranda said.
Also speaking will be Alison Peters. “They asked me and other women I was with if we wanted to have sex with them,” Peters said in a news release about the police. “We were told to take our clothes off if we wanted to be taken seriously. . .”
Another detainee, Skylar Radojkovic, said police “told me that I was going to prison, where I would be raped repeatedly. I was strip-searched and called various unprintable names by these officers. The detective pushed me repeatedly into the wall.”
Doe on Tuesday criticized the final auditor’s report, also due out Thursday, into how police investigate sexual assaults. The report says Toronto police have implemented 19 of 25 recommendations on how to deal with sexual assaults.
“It's business as usual, more of the same,” Doe said. “The police are not prepared to address the sexism, racism, incompetence and their own lack of analysis.”
The Toronto Police Services Board has appointed lawyer Doug Hunt to investigate police accountability during the summit. Toronto police have asked people with allegations against them during that weekend to file a formal complaint.
I'm sure these women are all lying and the Police were just doing their jobs..:rolleyes: How much longer will Mr. Haper avoid having a public inquiry into the G20? he will have to give in at some point soon.
Halycon
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Originally posted by Abercrombie
The toronto community mobilization network ran a protest school, put up, fed, tought and organized visiting protesters, and refused to denounce violence of their participants before the summit. Anyone who writes their lawyer's phone numbers on their arm, wear bandanas as masks, etc, were 100% ready to get arrested and knew damn well what they were getting into. If they went there so ready to be arrested, why are they complaining about it? I don't go to a nightclub with a condom in my pocket and then complain about getting laid.
one would need to get laid 4 that to happen wouldn't they?
Halycon
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Originally posted by hardcore trancer
Here is a good raw footage of what happend to the Police car, what is important to notice here is that the Cops are just standing around and not even trying to stop anyone, but thats ok I guess they were just doing their job by doing NOTHING.:rolleyes:
seeing these videos STILL ing piss me off. but i do agree with the guy i hoped the car would explode.... nothing puts hamper on a riot like a good bulk of them gettin caught in an explosion /hit with shrapnel that they were the cause of.
Halycon
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Originally posted by hardcore trancer
Ok fine then let’s assume that their secondary job was to protect the city, again they failed. You telling me 1 Billion dollars couldn’t stop a few hundred kids from trashing the city? Was their job was to protect these "leaders' then why did they go on a in rampage the next day and arrested everybody?
Those People that weren’t even close to where the leaders were staying so how do you justify it? How were all those protestors and ordinary citizens on Queens Park on Sunday posed any threat to the leaders?
Why was the car on fire in the first place? why did they allow it to happen?
the car was at king and bay right? so there were leaders staying at the Sheraton Centre, the Royal York, the Delta Chelsea and in Intercontinental... so yes they were near where leaders were staying
Halycon
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Originally posted by infinity HiGH
lol exactly. Along with private security groups, those guys are able to do a much more effective job of protecting world leaders than power-tripping meat heads from Toronto Police.
ROFL then you obviously still haven't heard who got the private security contract from the gov't for the g20 event.. if you did youd be at their office on church st. demanded them money givenn to them get refunded
Halycon
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Originally posted by PivotTechno
Too much actual thought required?
like fish in a barrel for you, huh?
well lets have a look at what she's doing.. she's attempting to obstruct jusitice by creating mischief and i guess once the bubbles hit the officer i suppose you could then say she's just assault him as well.
hardcore trancer
Great interview and some good information on some of the so called law that were passed during the G20 summit in Toronto.
hardcore trancer
Some words from the "criminals" behind the G20. Funny thing is more than half of them didn’t even get charged for anything, yet they went to jail and they got their ass beaten by the Police for nothing.
FunkyCrew
wow yet another bs video to bump up the thread :rolleyes:
hardcore trancer
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Originally posted by FunkyCrew
wow yet another bs video to bump up the thread :rolleyes:
Did anyone beg you to post on this thread?:conf: and how is the video bull exactly?
