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.
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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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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.
