Originally Posted by
Gilroy
Canadaman,
There is a photograph of me in full uniform drawing back my stick after whacking a demonstrator at Queen's Park who was part of a mob that tried to burn down the building. I hit that demonstrator because he would not give up a baton he held that he had grabbed from another officer. This was when Mike Harris was premier .Basically every day I attended one demonstration after another in downtown Toronto, anti poverty demo's, seal hunt demo's, anti Palestinian, you name it I was there.
They all have the potential for violence and anarchy, but there are no innocents here. Sometimes the Police are the aggressors ie at the G8 summit in Toronto and sometimes its the demonstrators.