CBC’s The Fifth Estate gives what is, in my estimation, one of the most balanced reports on what happened during the G20 in Toronto that I have seen in the mainstream media. And you can watch the whole thing here: ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
Category Archives: G20
Criminal investigation launched into G20 incident
Posted by Mike Brock on February 12, 2011 21 comments
The woman in question has launched a $1.6 million lawsuit against the Toronto Police. Yesterday, the Toronto Police finally opened a criminal investigation against officers into the use of rubber bullets on protesters at point-blank range. Here’s a video from the incident, clearing showing police advancing within several meters of a protester and unloading several [...]
Now is the time when we juxtapose
Posted by Mike Brock on January 26, 2011 1 comment
Stephen Harper and his government are one of the few Western countries that have not formally commented on or condemned the violent suppression of pro-democracy protesters in Egypt. After seeing disturbing scenes like this, one wonders when Canada will formally show some concern: Oh, that’s right. I forgot. We condone this sort of thing in [...]
Toronto cop allegedly sends veiled threat to Toronto Sun columnist
Posted by Mike Brock on December 14, 2010 Comments Off
Joe Warmington has been one of the few columnists who’s been brave and tenacious enough to take on what he saw as a gross violation of civil rights during the G20 summit in Toronto last summer. In fact, he’s probably been one of the most important figures in turning the perceptive tide against the Toronto [...]
Old, irrelevant man, writing for tabloid newspaper continues to defend the indefensible
Posted by Mike Brock on December 10, 2010 5 comments
Okay. The headline is not charitable. But I’m not feeling very charitable towards Mr. Peter Worthington of the Toronto Sun. Worthington, is a well-known conservative pontificator in the Greater Toronto Area. And he’s someone who I never really liked, personally. Even back when I had more partisan leanings. When I was still wet behind the [...]
Talking police and civil rights with Rob Breakenridge
Posted by Mike Brock on December 9, 2010 Comments Off
I’ll be on the Rob Breakenridge Show tonight at 11Pm Eastern / 9pm Mountain Time on AM770 CHQR in Alberta tonight, talking the most recent developments about the G20 policing in Toronto. You can listen in live here. And here’s the podcast in case you missed it. ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
Bill Blair, Toronto’s chief of police, is a lying asshole
Posted by Mike Brock on December 8, 2010 5 comments
And you can put that in your pipe and smoke it. After the devastating report from the Ontario Ombudsman, Toronto’s lying chief of police has stuck to the story that he “honestly believed” in the so-called “five metre rule”. And when he realized that he was wrong, he informed his officers that the rule was contained to [...]
Ontario Ombudsman: “Mass violation” of rights.
Posted by Mike Brock on December 7, 2010 13 comments
The Ontario Ombudsman office has concluded what people like myself have known all along, from what we saw with our own eyes, and experienced first hand. That, during the G20 summit in Toronto, police acted in a way that was not consistent with our fundamental legal rights. Rather, they outright violated them. Arbitrary arrests, arbitrary [...]
The whole world has gone mad: An open letter to Lady Liberty.
Posted by Mike Brock on December 3, 2010 1 comment
Dear Lady Liberty, I’m not sure if the events of the past decade have caught much of your attention. Although I’m sure you got a good view of despicable acts of terrorism on September 11th from your perch on Liberty Island. The reason for my writing you, is to bring you up-to-speed on what’s been [...]
Toronto G20 exposed
Posted by Mike Brock on November 13, 2010 2 comments
If you still think the police response at the Toronto G20 was appropriate, you need to see these videos below. This documentary series, compiled from hundreds of sources, also contains a minute-by-minute documentation of the riot that supposedly justified the police over-reaction. For those who bought into the sensationalist nonsense that the riot was “out [...]
Toronto police chief channels Kafka
Posted by Mike Brock on November 4, 2010 5 comments
About 100 police officers are facing discipline for what, even their police chief admits, was a deliberate attempt by officers to avoid being identified by members of the public. Contrary to police policy, many of the officers on the streets of Toronto during the G20 summits, removed their name tags and badge numbers. A phenomenon, [...]
Talking bubbles and police in Calgary
Posted by Mike Brock on October 20, 2010 1 comment
I talked to Rob Breakenridge on his show in Calgary last night about Officer Bubbles and the police overreach during the G20 Summit in Toronto. You can hear that interview here: Rob Breakenridge Show – Office Bubbles & G20 Fallout The Volunteer is a libertarian news and views blog. To read more about The Volunteer, [...]
Officer Bubbles cartoons bubbling up everywhere
Posted by Mike Brock on October 19, 2010 6 comments
Yesterday, asshole Adam Josephs‘ bully-for-hire (read: his lawyer) suggested that they were considering dropping the entirely reasonable $1.2 million dollar lawsuit — against YouTube and a bunch of it’s users who had the tenacity to skewer him with both parody and mockery for acting like a bully — because they had achieved their “primary objective” [...]
Tonight on Breakenridge
Posted by Mike Brock on October 19, 2010 1 comment
I will be on the Rob Breakenridge Show tonight to talk about Officer Bubbles, at 11:00pm Eastern, 9:00pm Central. If you’re not in Alberta, I believe you can tune in at the AM 770 CHQR website. ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
Officer Bubbles’ statement of claim
Posted by Peter Jaworski on October 18, 2010 6 comments
Mike commented on Adam Josephs’ decision to sue YouTube as a result of all the taunting and ridicule he’s faced after he threatened to arrest a girl for blowing bubbles. His overreaction became global news, with some dubbing him “Officer Bubbles.” If you’re curious enough, we have Officer Bubbles’ Statement of Claim below. He’s asking [...]
The saga of Officer Bubbles
Posted by Mike Brock on October 16, 2010 77 comments
Constable Adam Josephs of the Toronto Police Services is an asshole. Not just any asshole. But a special kind of asshole. The kind of asshole who acts like a total asshole, then asserts his right to be an asshole without actually being ridiculed for being an asshole. In fact, he feels so strongly that he [...]