Vaguely wondering whether the mythical JDL protest materialized after everyone else left.
Everybody else was gone by 9:42 p.m., so I don't know why these are being counted as ✌🏾"demo arrests"✌🏾 other than they need to justify their bloated budget.
#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #FuckThePolice
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Finally on the way home.
Excessive cops, busting out all the toys.
Violent criminal stalkers (plural). Adam Lee Wasserman AND Mitch Hancock both have pending assault charges.
Used my newly-realized status as a decoy, thanks to the stalker who didn't turn up, to draw cops away from the second protest and keep them away. By the time they figured out what was happening, it was TOO LATE.
No arrests (though we thought the angry cops might be about to take out their frustration on someone).
I wonder how long it'll take them to realize they're being played when they follow me.
#Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence
#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #FuckThePolice #AdamLeeWasserman #CreepySpouseInDaHouse #CreepySpouseInDaBigHouse #SnMitch
Tonight a bunch of shitty white dilettantes are basically doing a re-enactment of the Berlin Conference of 1884/5 — except they're divvying up Palestine instead of Africa as a whole.
4 Israelis are debating a 2 state solution at the notoriously racist and pretentious Munk Debates. The "Debates" are a series of events where elitist whites justify why they deserve to have everything.
Mostly no one cares about their mental masturbation, but once in a while they manage to plan something SO EGREGIOUS that it warrants a turnout, like tonight.
The most entertaining possibility of the night is the potential arrest of war criminal attendees.
Rich whites. Zionists. Colonialism. War criminals.
It promises to be a shitshow.
#Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe
oh brother. the newest tech toys the Edmonton cops are getting? *facial recognition bodycams*
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-police-facial-recognition-cameras-9.7000389
I think the org needs to invest in a copy of this book, if not more than one.
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The history of the civil rights era abounds with accounts of physical brutality by county sheriffs and tales of political intrigue and constitutional violations by FBI agents. Turning our attention to municipal officials in cities and towns across the US—North, South, East, and West—Davis reveals how local police bombarded civil rights organizers with an array of insidious weapons. More than just physical violence, these economic, legal, and reputational attacks were designed to project the illusion of color-blind law enforcement.
The civil rights struggle against police abuses is largely overlooked today, the victim of a willful campaign by local law enforcement to erase their record of repression. By placing activism against state violence at the center of the civil rights story, Police Against the Movement offers critical insight into the power of political resistance in the face of government attacks on protest.
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https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691238838/police-against-the-movement
#HistoryRepeating #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #FuckThePolice #FuckFascism
International Day of Palestinian Solidarity.
#Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe
Here's hoping that my malignant narcissist stalker actually has managed to point the police to my Mastodon account.
Why not bump the footage of their behaviour right to the top of my feed, just in case.
Notice when you see him start filming, as they cross the street from the protest to come harass me. Literally AWAY FROM THE PROTEST, doing the task organizers asked me to perform, off by myself where they go completely out of their way. Then only share the footage of AFTER he tries to force me into the road as she watches his abuse from the sidelines.
Watch my camera on the tripod.
It's literally a fixed point.
I am backing away from their intrusion and tag-team stalking.
She performatively films a little bullshit, then steps aside to let him physically threaten me and manoeuvre me backwards until I no longer have any sidewalk and am about to be forced into traffic.
I pause and assess my options, confronted as I am by a man with half a foot and well over a hundred pounds in his advantage trying to harm me, and knee him in the balls.
Which brings her to life, because, as is the way with abusers, the victim is definitely not allowed to defend herself.
And suddenly DARVO!
He's the victim!
Just ignore everything that leads up to it.
Or, if you're following her footage, the one on the right, they will just not post everything that leads up to it.
So tell me this creep wouldn't follow me down a dark alley. I mean, he might not. Now.
It's weird how you think you have the right to stalk me in every possible context.
This is #stalking
#CarymaSad #CarymaNgo #AdamLeeWasserman #CreepySpouseInDaHouse #CreepySpouseInDaBigHouse #NarcissistLogic #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe
And Ms Niggenaber¹ is finally named by mainstream media.
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Niggenaber declined multiple requests to comment on the incident or her social media posts. In emails to the Star she said: “If anything is put up that’s untruthful you will be liable to legal ramifications. Do not put anything on the news ... Do not contact me again or you’ll be charged with harassment. Got it?”
Niggenaber’s X account had replied to other users throughout November about her distaste for Muslims, Islam and protests. The public account turned private on Monday afternoon.
A few hours after Niggenaber drove the tractor through the crowd on Nov. 18, the X account under her name said “ban it!!!” responding to a post asking whether Islam should be banned.
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If it gets paywalled
https://archive.ph/kOe3l
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¹ https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/115583053969996566
#AthenaNiggenaber #Toronto #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime
Today in #YesAllCops
"TPS Neighborhood Community Officer"
#ACAB #BlackCops
#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #FuckThePolice #Toronto #AthenaNiggenaber
Just finished a training session with teens on dealing with cops.
It's really interesting hearing their questions especially in light of Bill 33 passing this week. The next step is training trainers so that the message can spread more effectively.
On another note, I think we've settled on 5 things EVERYBODY should know about cops in Canada.
1. Canadian cops can and will lie to you.
2. Police do not care about your rights.
3. Police will use the people around you to do an end run around your rights.
4. The process is the punishment.
5. There is no effective mechanism for holding police accountable.
#CommunityDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #FuckThePolice
Today in #FuckThePolice
I guess if you're going to be on paid leave, you may as well be making bank.
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Toronto police constable charged with sexual assault, intimidation: police
Const. Bojan Antal allegedly assaulted, intimidated victim over 11 years, police say
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Bojan
Rank: Police Constable
2024 salary: $357,835 + $1,030 benefits
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-police-officer-charged-sexual-assault-9.6988520
#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle
Bubbles and Chang.
My least favourite combo.
#Toronto #TorontoActions #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #HousingForAll #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingNow
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DRVIZEvkUwd/
Praxis Archives puts the snow plow incident in context, both with other attacks on protestors in in recent weeks and the shitty behaviour of cops, particularly newly-minted Inspector Izzy, who drove his unmarked vehicle into a crowd of protesters last month, and then chose to blame the marshals at the Tuesday night protest for not keeping people safe.
On camera.
Both times.
#AthenaNiggenaber #Toronto #TorontoActions #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe
I feel like if you're going to DRIVE A SNOW PLOW THROUGH A CROWD OF PEOPLE ON THE SIDEWALK, you probably shouldn't make it so obviously premeditated.
#AthenaNiggenaber
#Toronto
#TorontoActivists #TorontoActions
#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #FuckThePolice
So today's Palestinian flag raising was marred by a racist spraying an unknown substance at those who came to witness the historic moment.
Let's see if TPS does a media release about the arrest, or whether that strategy is only for supporters of Palestinian freedom.
Cops have WAYYY TOO MUCH DISCRETION on these matters and the colour of the victim is demonstrably a factor in how things go.
This cannot be reformed.
It needs to be abolished.
#Toronto #FreePalestine
#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #FuckThePolice
I was with about a thousand other people celebrating the raising of the Palestinian flag at Toronto City Hall.
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I wanted to post this immediately but got dragged into a situation with a Zionist spraying at least one attendees with an unknown substance — and getting arrested as a result.
My function?
Support for the victim in dealing with the cops. I am now a little concerned because I sniffed her coat where she was sprayed, and now I am having random abdominal pain.
Anyway: #FreePalestine 🇵🇸
#GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime
#Toronto #TorontoActivists
We have been quiet, but we have been busy. We've been reworking some of our sessions to more accurately reflect the world in which we live.
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First up: Know Your Rights.
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Cops do not care about your rights.
They don't even care about the law.
What they DO care about is: maintaining control and power.
What might help you to understand this is this passage from Police a Field Guide:
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Without pain, police have no authority. The police inflict pain and are the sole authority to relieve it, and this serves the same legitimating purpose at the heart of criminal justice. Law, Esmeir argues, “openly sanctions the infliction of regulated pain.” Law endorses the pain police impose.
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It is equally the job of police to impose pain as it is to measure its effectiveness. And since, to police, pain is always effective at creating compliant subjects, pain is not present if compliance is not achieved.
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This is the reality of the psychology you're dealing with, while you're still thinking about "laws" and "rights". We've revised our Workshop to help people understand that what happens isn't their fault.
Police violate rights every single day. Every single hour. That is who they are.
And it doesn't matter who you are.
Busy day doing groundwork with law students and community.
I fundamentally believe that reaching people BEFORE the system molds them into units that will help perpetuate that self-same shitty system is key.
Mmm.
Guaranteed police brutality.
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The notorious unit was recently rebranded and given a permanent policing role in the province, despite an ongoing federal probe into its conduct. Hundreds of formal complaints have been made about its excessive force, illegal tactics, and racism during crackdowns on blockades against gas pipelines and old-growth logging operations.
Now, the newly-branded unit, renamed the Critical Response Unit–BC (CRU-BC), will be at the forefront of policing resistance to new fast-tracking legislation, Bills 14 and 15, according to internal government documents obtained by The Breach through an access-to-information request.
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https://breachmedia.ca/rcmp-unit-controversial-police-opposition-fast-tracked-resource-projects/
#AbolishThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #BurnItAllDown #FuckThePolice
Probably the best piece on what happened a week ago at the anti-IOF protest that resulted in the glass in the door breaking and tremendous bullshit in terms of police overkill and media boot-licking.
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Karten had locked these people inside the event space, which also prevented others from entering, according to SJP and corroborated by the videos.
At some point in the video, a tall individual appears to break the glass of the locked door, either from inside or outside the room.
SSI claimed one of the protesters broke the window using a drill bit, which was found in the clinic afterwards, and Karten said they “broke through the glass door and charged at us,” adding that “one came at me with a drill bit.”
As pointed out by Toronto journalist Samira Mohyeddin, one of Karten’s supporters posted an Instagram story on Nov. 7 or 8, saying Karten broke the window, which Karten then reposted, further confusing the narrative.
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https://www.thegrindmag.ca/idf-soldier-manhandles-toronto-students-who-disrupted-event/
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