Toronto G20 policing too aggressive, judge says

15cm is not 15 inches in spite of what you been telling your girlfriends jack

Why do we think a liberla judge is the voice for reason???

One can only hope Goodman charged Puddy Tat $2,000 to get him off...poetic justice I believe that would be.

G8/G20 Threaten Rape to Young Girls and Abused Disabled and then told him to walk home with one leg with No Cane or Crutches!3 Day CON Party,Fake Lake,1,000 ILLEGAL Arrests,$Billion Wasted and Clement taking $50,000,000.00 and No One in the CON Arrest for Abuse of Power!

In British Columbia we need a conservative govt who will provide some justice for crimes committed as the 94 and 2011 Riots. It would appear that there will be no charges for rioters.

Honest judge - I was just going to a concert that night and the 15" knife is just for cleaning my finger nails.

Police probably had no business arresting this guy, we can thank McGuinty and his band of idiots for invoking a law giving them draconian powers to use BEFORE anything ever happened or started to happen. At least in 1972 Trudeau had an enough sense to wait until the FLQ actually did commit acts of violence before he enacted such powers.

It is very clear McGuinty is just not Management material, he shouldnt even be in cabinet. He would probably do a decent job of warming up one of the back bench seats for someone.

But back to Puddy Tat, you dont arm yourself to go to a concert, or if that is the norm today then society has a bigger issue. At the least the judge should have chastised him for carrying it, banning him from carrying weapons would have been more appropriate.

At the risk of helping McLiar out too much, here is a good campaign plank for you Dalt - you can promise to setup an Ontario knife registry and charge everyone to own a knife. You can promise everyone it will only cost $2M to set up even though you know it will cost $2B....some slush money for your buddies.

Why did he have a knife!! Throw this as**s in jail with his lawyer and the judge. I want security above these wacko's violent protests.

Instead of a water cannon,have a poop cannon.Spray all the h00Ligans down with horse poop,and then everybody has to go home and wash the poo away.It's too poopy to hang around and cause trouble...see...that works ....

He was puddy in the judges hand

Surely the people who are so satisfied with the police tactics at the G20 would be happier living in Saudi Arabia or Syria or some other place where people aren't allowed to demonstrate in support of their political views? They sure don't deserve the freedoms they have in Canada--freedoms they're all too willing to just throw away.

@SomeGoofinWindsor They tried that in Russia for 75 years. You can see where that got them.

Police and armies, suppressors of freedom

I'm not in law enforcement. Part of the problem in the UK is that the young have NO respect for authority of any kind-teachers, police, social workers, health-care workers, etc. The people in the London riots initially got what they wanted, the police kept their distance. I'm sure the lady who had to jump for her life from the burning building, the father who lost his two sons and the emergency workers who had bricks thrown at them were all very happy to see the police keeping out of it and respecting the rights of the rioters. I'm sure the people who watched their businesses and homes being destroyed were paying more attention to the behaviour of the police than to the behaviour of poor innocent rioters.

What's scareyer to me is that the police would fabricate such a lie to cover their tracks. You should be more concened about that. Where's there credibility? Not only do they beat you to a pulp and violate your human rights, but even if you're innocent they can conjure up some bogus fabricated story and imprison you. that's BS, if you ask me. I watched a documentary about it on TV, did you know they beat a guy with a prosthetic leg and locked him up. They called this old man a threat? hah seriously. Say goodbye to what liberties you have left, because they're tightening the restrictions on what you're aloud to protest. Free speech only goes so far I suppose.

I find it funny. The people who generalize it in one category, and say if there's one bad apple in the crowd, the rest of the crowd is bad? No, it comes down to the individual. That can apply to the police aswell. For every bad protester, there was a bad cop. Doesnt mean all of them were to blame. So why were all innocent people treated singled out and not given the benfit of the doubt. They were locked away like animals and denied their rights.

My respect goes out to the lawful cops and repectful protesters. Though The bad apples of both sides should be prosecuted to the extent of the law. Not just the protesters. Who's investigating the police? and finding those criminals on that side of the fence.

Ohh that's right, its an internal investigation, by the police, sounds like conflicting interests..

Time for this judge to retier, police presence was a big zero when the black block was ripping city and bussinesses apart , and they were in full force cracking down on peacfull legitimet protesters.The police chief should have been long fired after the g20 protest this guy is an incompetent person for the position with no common sense what so ever

Dear Mr. Melvyn Green,
Thank you from one citizen to another.

Cameras, cameras, cameras! Anyone could have become the next Michael Moore just by taking 2,000 photos. I can't understand why there was so little hard proof of all the excesses and hooliganism.
Everyone has a cell-phone these days, so it would be a small matter to set up and take pics of all the incidents in Toronto that week.

Yes, I think that people in the same block as broken windows and burning stores should have their heads split open by police - no one has the right to mosey on in and be a spectator at a looting episode. The first instinct of a bystander should be to run the other way without delay.

On the other hand, Harper has this Hitler mentality - having decided to overstuff the event with para-military brownshirts, he was caught in a predicament - if the whole thing had gone down peacefully Harper would have been in big trouble for the huge expense. Therefore the need for police to go around and hunt down people - they needed arrests in the thousands to justify the security preparations. And the possibility of government-backed fifth columnists is real - some of the masked bandits throwing Molotov cocktails were likely 'agents provocateurs' - sent out by those in charge to cause destruction in their own city - they had to justify those thousands of police - and they had to justify their brutality.

But all the chatter about this episode is nonsense, because very shortly after this event Harper received an overwhelming endorsement by the Canadian public - a majority government. Therefore the Canadian polity is firmly in favor of this kind of government behavior or they would have punished it by electoral defeat - they have spoken clearly.

What does this say about our country? Perhaps that it''s not so bright to go around expecting the great shining democracy most people think we have. This country is far from it - but still it's a great place to live - I doubt there is a great democracy anywhere on earth. It's just a matter of keeping your nose clean and staying away from such spectacles as 'people's rights' gatherings, etc. The powerful rule here as elsewhere and they will tell the police when and where to bust heads and who cares about the cover-up - if it smells, so what. Memories are short and people go back to normal mode before long. Best to forget all these pie-in-the sky civil rights things - and if the fearless leaders tell you to say 'zeig heil' - just do it, and move on.
Life is about personal growth & challenge, not Utopian societies - best to keep your head down and mow yer own row.

Maybe if the protesters behaved properly the police wouldn't have had to use the force they did. The protesters got what they were looking for - the 11 o'clock news plus this added news article from a bunch of judges who need to wake up.

stevie harpie needs to be dragged before the canadian/ontarian/torontoians and whipped for his crimes against the city. Can't stand to look at him or listen to him. He will go down the same road as brain baloney.

Harpers Paid G8/G20 COP said "YOU DONT LIVE IN CANADA ANYMORE"To All Canadians this is the beginning of a Police State,time to brig Home Canadian Forces to Bring Freedom Back to CANADA.