More

Toronto G20 Settlement: Jason Wall Swarmed By Police On Way To Church

First Posted: 11/28/11 07:04 PM ET Updated: 11/30/11 09:36 AM ET

Amazing
 Inspiring
 Funny
 Scary
 Hot
 Crazy
 Important
 Weird


A Toronto man who was arrested on his way to church has settled a financial claim against the police.


Jason Wall, 25, was walking along Yonge Street by himself on the morning of June 27, 2010, when he was swarmed by as many as 20 Toronto police officers and taken into custody.


The police were part of the detail that was providing security for the G20 summit taking place that weekend in the city.


Wall says he was arrested because he was wearing a bandana around his neck.


According to statement from his lawyer Wall "spent approximately 28 hours in custody ... He was forced to wear handcuffs for more than 20 hours, slept on the floor, and had to submit to a degrading strip search after which he was released without charge."


The Toronto man filed a complaint with the Ontario Independent Police Review Director.


The OIPRD investigation discovered that Wall has been unlawfully arrested.


The final final report said that an unnamed officer with the Toronto Police Service wrote: “…we were given specific direction in regards to people that were wearing banners [sic], gasmask, goggles and that they were going to be arrestable or that they were to be arrested for Disguise with Intent, which is a Criminal Code Offense and as well anyone with a backpack was to be searched and if they refused to be search [sic] then they would be arrestable for obstruct police which is a Criminal Offence and as well as people, weapons including bottles and canisters of liquid were to be investigated and arrested for Possession of Weapons."


According to Wall's lawyer "the report shows that senior command directed officers to make unlawful arrests." “Wearing a bandana or refusing to allow police to look in your backpack are not criminal offences. We now have proof that many arrests were not the result of a few bad apples or overreaction by officers on the ground. The orders came from the top," lawyer Davin Charney said in a release to the media.


Wall sued police for $25,000.


He settled the case recently but the amount cannot be revealed under the terms of the settlement.


FOLLOW HUFFPOST CANADA

A Toronto man who was arrested on his way to church has settled a financial claim against the police. Jason Wall, 25, was walking along Yonge Street by himself on the morning ...
A Toronto man who was arrested on his way to church has settled a financial claim against the police. Jason Wall, 25, was walking along Yonge Street by himself on the morning ...
Filed by Christian Cotroneo  | 
 
 
  • Comments
  • 38
  • Pending Comments
  • 0
  • View FAQ
Comments are closed for this entry
View All
Favorites
Recency  | 
Popularity
Page: 1 2  Next ›  Last »  (2 total)
Donna Meness
www.findmaisyandshannon.com
261 Fans
12:57 AM on 12/03/2011
Everyone ...just a reminder to not forget to forward your comments directly to the Police Services Board:

board@tpsb.ca

If you believe, as I do, that Blair should be removed be sure to put that in your message!

I would also urge everyone to email Mayor Ford. Ford is a populist. He will not support Bill Blair (David Millers "man") if he knows that the public is overwhelmingly opposed to Blair. Here is Mayor Fords address:

mayor_ford@toronto.ca
Permalink  |
Donna Meness
www.findmaisyandshannon.com
261 Fans
12:56 AM on 12/03/2011
Ask the police chief to explain why nothing was done when police removed their ID badges during these protests. There is only one reason a cop would remove his/her ID, and that's so they could get away with beating someone and not be charged, even if it were caught on tape. Police supervisors and management should be fired and charged for that alone. If not, expect this to become the trend.... officers were completely out of control.

They were acting with brutality. They made me ashamed of them, and should be ashamed of themselves.

There has been a great deal of concern about police lately, and many of them have been caught in situations where they were taped viciously beating up on unarmed, defenseless individuals. They are acting like psychos, not honorable men and women.

Officer Bubbles' Facebook page says that his occupation is "Taking out human garbage".

Was the 57 year old farmer, an amputee whose artificial leg was ripped off, face pushed into the dirt, and who was ordered to "hop" to a waiting police van, was he garbage too? What about the media reps caught in the melee at Queen & Spadina?

All liars? All human garbage?
Police actions, many of them not even remotely justifiable, do little to assure that our police work for the people, and that their duty is to "Serve and Protect". Serve whom? Protect whom?
Permalink  |
Donna Meness
www.findmaisyandshannon.com
261 Fans
12:52 AM on 12/03/2011
http://forums.blueline.ca/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=21829

The level of arrogance and total disregard for what their uniforms stand for has reached incredulous proportions. They are now an occupation force, far from accountability, lacking in any regard for the community they are supposed to 'protect and serve'. It seems that to them It is a job where benefits include 'scull cracking', 'human garbage collection', and 'herding of hippies'. Reading these comments is akin to listening to a wife-beating husband explain that it was his wife's fault that he to break her nose and cheek. It's nauseating. Are these the people that our kids should look up to?
Permalink  |
Donna Meness
www.findmaisyandshannon.com
261 Fans
12:51 AM on 12/03/2011
After all this (Blue Line Forums) is a forum that is frequented by police officers and other 'authority types'. Hard to imagine that someone who claims to be protecting democratic rights could write a gem like this one:

"These Hippies dont know how good they have it.... They speak with a luxury that can only be afforded to people who live in a free state.
Live ammo on some of those rioters would be interesting... bet you after the first black clad anarchist gets his head popped off trying to put a chair through a Starbucks window, the rest will loose their will to riot pretty damned quick...."

What I find chilling is not so much that someone 'in authority' could write these lines, but the fact that other members of the forum do not come out to repudiate the statement.

It's right there at the top of page 16:

http://forums.blueline.ca/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=21829&start=225
Permalink  |
Donna Meness
www.findmaisyandshannon.com
261 Fans
12:51 AM on 12/03/2011
The script is always the same. Identify a group of convenient 'enemies' by creating conditions where the they are seen as dangerous. In this case it's the G20 protesters. Insert several convenient targets for the protesters to burn, and splash it all over the media. Then, when the rest of the population condemns them, and demands more security insitutue new laws that seem to cater to that. Bit by bit the freedoms that we enjoy are taken away until one day you wake up in a police state.

If we look back at Montebello and the agent provocateurs involved there who tried to infiltrate and instigate a group well dressed and wise senior citizens, I can hardly say that these protestors, who were exercizing their right to question authority, as "tree hugging hippies".

. I guess you've conveniently forgotten how the RCMP pounded their chests and insisted "we run the ISU" and called the shots on treatment of protestors.We need a fully accountable citizen based watch group to police the police.
Permalink  |
Donna Meness
www.findmaisyandshannon.com
261 Fans
12:48 AM on 12/03/2011
You do know that Blair could disagree on one topic and still be a stooge. You do know that people can be stooges without agreeing to everything their master says...

Harper was the master architect of the G20. Although Blair might not have been reporting directly to Harper, he was still reporting to the RCMP for that weekend. A stooge is someone who does not question but blindly obeys. Blair was a stooge that weekend AND he also imprinted his own brand of policing -- that of lying, ignoring abuses perpetrated by his own officers, smearing protesors. NOT an honourable man.

Removing name tags well in advance of beating people up is premeditation and not an impulsive act. This makes it clear that huge number of police officers during the G20 who removed their tags KNEW they were involved in criminal activity and took steps to protect themselves from accountability.

Cannot understate the irony of seeing criminals 'serving and protecting' us.

by the way. why is it they can can spot rioters who live 1000's of miles .... yet cannot pick out rogue cops who are there every day?

cover up?
Permalink  |
photo
HUFFPOST SUPER USER
gx5000
Life's too short, be happy..
855 Fans
11:31 AM on 11/29/2011
"He's wearing a bandanna around his neck ! Get him !!!!"

Always keep a suit in the back of your BMW for when you walk around, helps...

(System Error - Sarcasm Font not Found)
Permalink  |
photo
HUFFPOST SUPER USER
Victor Saymong
Canuck up Toronto way
281 Fans
08:39 AM on 11/29/2011
I keep saying this: The cops are OUT OF CONTROL. They are supposed to serve us. The people need to put the police back under a tight leash.
Permalink  |
photo
HUFFPOST COMMUNITY MODERATOR
Skepticat
Supporting skeptical felines everywhere
1120 Fans
07:38 AM on 11/29/2011
The G20 and UC Davis over reactions, the clandestine "Harperization" of government and the demands of a politicians staff that school officials punish an 18 year old girl for commenting that the Kansas governor "sucked" are all indicators of an impending "new world order" that will only get worse if citizens don't recognize it and prevent it from happening. The very last thing any country worth living in needs are smarmy apparatchiks trying to politicize government services including police that by well thought out laws are supposed to actually serve we the people instead of they the politicians. Although the neo-cons seem to be the worst offenders for now - remember who was running the Ontario legislature during the G20 and passed the secret reduce freedoms legislation. L'etat c'est moi thinking unfortunately didn't stop with Louis XIV - the only way to prevent it's return is to remain vigilent and don't let politicians get away with it.
Permalink  |
The truth lives forever
8 Fans
03:18 AM on 11/29/2011
Welcome to the New World Order.......
Permalink  |
Donna Meness
www.findmaisyandshannon.com
261 Fans
01:25 AM on 11/29/2011
Police attacked a jail solidarity rally at the temporary detention centre at the Toronto Film Studios, charging the crowd and trampling on protesters sitting on the street. Hundreds of people were also arbitrarily detained for several hours in a rain storm in downtown Toronto.
Included in the hundreds of people arrested during and after the G20 Summit were a deaf man who failed to obey police orders he could not hear, a TTC employee on his way to work, and a graffiti artist charged with wearing a mask with intent when police found an air filter mask in her backpack.
Permalink  |
photo
HUFFPOST SUPER USER
King Stevie Harper
87 Fans
04:13 PM on 11/29/2011
well at least they got one "graffiti artist"
Permalink  |
Donna Meness
www.findmaisyandshannon.com
261 Fans
01:25 AM on 11/29/2011
The rising police state and Constitutional dictatorship in Canada includes:

Lack of political transparency and accountability;
police not autonomous from the government;
police executive become openly political;
heightened armed police presence in public;
rising incidences of police brutality, abuses and shootings;
unwarranted use of excessive force;
unresolved police code of conduct breeches;
video surveillance and community cameras;
control and restrictions of mainstream media;
coercive police requests for voluntary DNA sampling;
criminalization of society;
arbitrary search and seizure;
civilian complaint mechanism against the police deliberately undermined by the state and the police executive;
exorbitant police budgets;
antiterrorism measures that violate basic human rights;
radio frequency identification and tracking;
surveillance legislation;
clandestine internet, cell phone, telephone and mail monitoring;
data bases of personal information;
firearm confiscation and prohibition;
martial law;
mass arrests;
arbitrary 'preventative' detention;
civilian requirement to carry identification 'papers' at all times;
degrading distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive; enacting 'secret' laws behind closed doors;
flagrant lying, deceit, propaganda and denial by officials;
state media propaganda, restrictions on civil mobility;
and encroachments on the democratic freedom to express or communicate political or other views.
Permalink  |
Donna Meness
www.findmaisyandshannon.com
261 Fans
01:15 AM on 11/29/2011
It has nothing to do with any of the human rights violations which include (but are not limited to):

1. The kettling incident atQueen and Spadina
2. The kettling incident at the Novotel.
3. The unneccessary and violent shut down of the pre designated and peaceful "free speech zone" at Queens Park.
4. The violent dispersal of cross legged protesters on Queen St. whose only crime was singing O Canada (u tube it... It's tear jerking)
5. The order for police to "stand down" while vandals broke windows on Young st.
Permalink  |
lsamsa
10 Fans
04:37 AM on 11/29/2011
Donna Meness...you certainly have an incredible amount of knowledge & information about Canada & details within.
Very interesting info....and I agree with most of your take on these issues.
I do, however, have a little alarm going off in regards to your spelling of 'Yonge St.'
Obviously quite trite compared to all the important information you have provided here...but, anyone who has lived in Toronto, and most likely Ontario...doesn't even have to think about how to spell the 'world's longest street'.
You seem to be a very well-researched person...just wondering what gives on this. This stuck out like a sore thumb to me.
Permalink  |
Donna Meness
www.findmaisyandshannon.com
261 Fans
12:39 AM on 12/03/2011
damn that auto-correct!!...grin
Permalink  |
Donna Meness
www.findmaisyandshannon.com
261 Fans
01:15 AM on 11/29/2011
Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin issued a scathing indictment: "The most massive compromise of civil liberties in Canadian history."
Repealing the infamous Public Works Protection Act that was originally enacted in 1939 to protect infrastructure works from wartime enemies and then used secretly by the Ontario government to protect the G20, is a good start.

The chief inappropriately asked the Ontario Premier for 'war measure' (Regulation 233/10) G20 powers that he knew would infringed on the civil liberties of Canadians and the Premier 'secretly' granted him these powers knowing full well that these special powers would infringe on the civil liberties of all Canadians. They are both guilty of breaching the public trust – one for asking for tyrannical powers and the other for secretly granting them and not protecting the civil liberties of Ontarians.

All across the western world peaceful protest is met by the new police. These are really the military. Yes they are a police force designed to do what soldiers do. The enemy is the citizen, the leaders are the politicians. Right now they are in training mode. Overwhelming forces to counter grandmas and students with a few agent provacateurs sprinkled in to spice up the mix.

By the time the general population gets on board it will be too late to have peaceful protests. Instead we will have mob scenes and riots, death and destruction, and precrime arrests using security certificates.

New prisons will fill up.
Permalink  |
Donna Meness
www.findmaisyandshannon.com
261 Fans
01:11 AM on 11/29/2011
Canadians may never know how much taxpayers shelled out to American-owned Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville to play host to G8 leaders in June. The Harper government recently released hundreds of pages of details on how it spent $857 million at the G8 and G20 summits. But millions of dollars of expenses were blacked out in the documents and further inquiries reveal the federal Conservatives have no plans to divulge these payments to real estate giants, construction companies and resort owners.

http://www.thestar.com/news/torontog20summit/article/901563--ottawa-won-t-say-what-it-paid-deerhurst-resort-to-host-g8-summit

"Shortly after the G8 ended, Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers, the Hartford, Conn.-based corporation that owns Deerhurst, put the 114-year-old luxury resort on the auction block. The company won't name the asking price. But the 400-room property, which sold for an estimated $21 million in 1998, is rumoured to be on the market for more than double that figure."
Permalink  |
Page: 1 2  Next ›  Last »  (2 total)