A group of protesters that demonstrated at a rally in support of Palestinians over the weekend in Toronto say a man who was protesting was injured during his arrest — which included an officer kneeling on his neck, something Toronto’s former police chief said officers are not trained to do.
How about instead of being “not trained to do” neck kneelings, they be trained not to do neck kneelings.
A subtle, but important, distinction.
Or even, train them to do it in a way that’s safer if they absolutely need to do it, even though that’s probably never the case
and what pray tell would cause a neck kneel to be absolutely necessary
To be honest, I’m guessing that they’re trained to push their body weight into the person’s back, but only trained in a controlled environment with compliant trainers, rather than someone out in the open with others yelling, screaming, and throwing objects while the subject is trying to resist.
Ten guys try to do it with minimal training in terrible situations, and at least one of them is going to fuck it up like this. While on camera since everybody’s got one in their pocket nowadays.
“Appears to show”
/me: Checks videos… sees a VERY clear still from the video clear and unquestionably showing a police office with his knee on the neck of the man on the ground.
Ummmm… right…
It’s an optical illusion caused by a very tiny temperature inversion in the atmosphere surrounding the event. /s
I think they just have an editorial policy about not stating the obvious when the obvious is something the courts have to rule on, legally speaking.
Who are you gonna trust, the authorities who tell you everything you need to know or your filthy, lying eyes?
Who let the SCP authors write headlines?
It’s a defence against libel.
There were at least a dozen of those pigs and they couldn’t restrain one guy? Who was he, Andre the Fucking Giant? He must have owed that pig some money I guess. By the way, did anyone see that Derek Chauvin got stabbed in prison the other week?
Former Toronto Police Services Board chair Alok Mukherjee told CBC News he was surprised to see the way the protester was restrained.
“This video seems to suggest that police officers on the ground are still doing the things they’re not supposed to be doing,” he said.
“I think it raises questions of how is it that there were so many police and they could not restrain one person without using knee-to-neck restraint.”lol … even with obvious irrefutable evidence they still act surprised that they broke regulation and even laws regarding assault.
How do you expect anyone to respect authority when everyone knows that authority doesn’t even want to follow their own rules … let alone basic respect for people.
All cops are lying bastards.
All cops are human, and humans tend to have terrible memories, lie regularly, are morons, and put self-interest over everything else.
The issue is that humans aren’t held accountable for what they do and say in proportion to the amount of power they wield.
Most human beings understand that they can’t go around indiscriminately killing people without consequences.
Cops have gotten away with it for so long that lying just comes naturally.
Police and politicians should all have body cams. You get to make life and death decisions for the public and you are paid out of the public’s wallet, you should be held accountable for every minute you are on the clock (breaks and washroom excepted). No political deal should happen without video evidence and no police interaction should go un-recorded for the protection of both the police and the public.
Interested to know when the got the PL VAR officials ruling on police video evidence. We looked at the footage, there was no knee on the neck. Beg pardon? Which footage?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A group of protesters who staged a rally in support of Palestinians last weekend released video Tuesday of a violent arrest that appears to show an officer kneeling on a man’s neck.
“On review of available footage of this matter, we maintain that the officer did not place his knee on the suspect’s neck,” Stephanie Sayer, a spokesperson for the force, said in an email.
Toronto police have charged the man who was arrested with assaulting and obstructing a peace officer.
A video published on Instagram by the PYM’s Toronto chapter shows multiple officers holding a person on the ground.
Former Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders came out against the practice of knee-on-neck restraint at a news conference in 2020, after the death of George Floyd in the United States.
Former Toronto Police Services Board chair Alok Mukherjee told CBC News he was surprised to see the way the protester was restrained.
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So Canadian police are as bad as seppo ones?
Cops are cops, most of them get into it because they want to lay down the law, very few are there to help.
As a convicted criminal I found the UK police to be quite professional.
