#toronto police

[allthecanadianpolitics]

TPS just assaulted people, and put 3 peaceful pro-Palestine protestors in the hospital today: https://www.instagram.com/p/C2DqihMAGMg/?igsh=MXJxcWg0bmF3Z3dmbA==

Please tag and share this widely, I don't know if news is going to cover it.

#Toronto Police #ACAB #defund the police #cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian

[newsfromstolenland]

"Members of Toronto's LGBTQ+ community are raising questions about the appointment of the city's new chief of police, Myron Demkiw, following his official swearing-in on Monday.

Specifically, they want to know how an officer who participated in the infamous Pussy Palace raid has become the city's top cop. 

Chanelle Gallant, a community activist and one of the original Pussy Palace organizers, is demanding answers from Toronto Mayor John Tory. 

"Mayor Tory appointed someone who, from what we can tell, is an old school cops' cop who brings a kind of lack of accountability and a willingness to... violate the human rights of Toronto residents," said Gallant.

In September of 2000, six male Toronto police officers raided a bathhouse event for queer women and transgender people by what was known as the Pussy Palace Collective. Organizers said the party was designed to help women explore their sexuality in a supportive setting.

In 2002, an Ontario provincial court judge ruled that police were wrong to raid the event and a subsequent class-action lawsuit resulted in an apology by police.

Shortly after Demkiw's appointment in September, news broke that he had participated in the raid."

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#myron demkiw #toronto #toronto police #ontario #canada #cops #police #cops tw #police tw #pussy palace raid #toronto news #ontario news #canadian news #mine #cdnpoli

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Toronto Police Officer Killed In Smash,” Toronto Globe. March 25, 1932. Page 9. ---- P.C. Charles E. Brown, (134) attracted to No. 6 Division of the Toronto Police Force, was instantly killed yesterday afternoon about 2.30 o’clock when the motor car which he was driving west on the Lake Shore Road swerved, near Burlington Avenue, in Mimico, and crashed head-on into an eastbound T.T.C. street car. Illustrations above show, at the upper left, a side view of the car in which Brown was driving, alone, this picture showing how virtually all the body of the car was torn off by the force of the crush; the second view, at the lower left, taken from the rear of the vehicle, depicts another angle, with the rear section of the body, seen in the foreground, hanging almost ‘in tatters’ from the frame of the car. At the upper right is a photograph off the victim, P. C. Brown, who was married five months ago. He served overseas in the C.E.F., joining the police on his return in 1919, and was stationed during his period of service in the western portions of the city. The street car into which Brown’s vehicle crashed head-on was damaged about the front vestibule and operating platform, windows being broken, but no injuries to passengers of crew of he street car were reported.

#toronto #mimico #toronto police #fatal crash #car crash #motor vehicle accident #head on collision #street cars #street railway #toronto street railways #great depression in canada #life of the automobile #death of the automobile #canadian veteran

[crashtestjeffy]

I was reading an article about the accidental death of a cop in Toronto. And as an almost throw away line in the article says that when the officer down, a call went out and three ambulances and up to 40 officers responded within 10 minutes.

Interesting. All the Toronto cop cars say "To Serve & Protect" on them. But if they were really there to serve and protect, I would imagine if a civilian was in danger they would serve them as equally as another cop. I am not dumb, I know there is a comradeship there, but still. It is a glaring show of what they could do and what they do, do when citizens are in danger. The very people they are there to serve. Of course I am not talking about wealthy neighbourhoods. A break and enter call in a new immigrant or government housing location takes about an hour to 24 hours to get any response and only after they offer online reporting. Yet in an area like Rosedale, a B&E call gets the immediate response of upward of four cars and multiple investigators. Immediately. Another reason why we need to defund the police. Because they simply do not provide the same service to everyone or with all the ability they have. Why should the majority of taxpayers pay for a force that is so focused on people who pay the least but havee the most?

#acab #police bias #fuck the blue #toronto music #toronto police

[babakca]

Police Officer on Bloor Street Toronto  April 2023   Photo BABAK 

#Toronto Police #Toronto Parking #Film Mission #Toronto Walk #Toronto 2023 #Real Toronto

[sammyinsights]

All out to 52 Division - Brutalization and Arrest of Protestors Continues

During a Toronto Palestinian Protest this afternoon, Toronto Police Officers brutalized and arrested a protester

They knocked him to the ground, punched and kicked repeatedly on the head, and put a knee on him neck, circling him as protestors recorded them, yelling at them to get back.

They wore white bicycle helmets, black jackets, and masks that covered everything but their eyes

Major grassroots organizations such as Palestinian youth movement, pymtoronto and Toronto Muslims have called on the community to go to the 52 division to shame them over their repeated brutalizations of protestors.

The protestor has been in police custody ever since with the community rallying Division 52 - 255 Dundas St W) for his release, still present as of reporting

To participate- call 416 808 5200 to demand the protestors release.

His identity and whereabouts is currently unknown

Link to Recording

12/10/23

Edit: 6:53

The Protestor has been released!

#toronto #Toronto police #torontopoli #Palestinian movement #protestor brutality #cdnpoli #reporting #Palestinian protests #my report

[nando161mando]

"Traffic Services (🤷🏾‍♀️) took to TikTok, a major source of calls.

Translation:

PLEASE STOP CALLING US."

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #seanshapiro #toronto #toronto police #usa #america #all cops are bastards #1312 #acab1312 #acab #allcopsarebastards #all cops are bad #defund the cops #fuck cops #cops #cop #police #anti police #anti cop #allcops #united states #unitedstateofamerica #unitedsnakes #joe biden #hunter biden #biden administration #biden will destroy america #biden crime family #corruption #corruptcongress

[skulllaria]

Driver got pulled over real quick

#toronto police #traffic stop #talariasting #talaria sting #ebike #ebikes #tumblr #ebikelife #north york #toronto

[allthecanadianpolitics]

"Toronto Mayor John Tory says he will push to increase the city's police budget, saying inflation and a "fraying at the edges" of community safety make the move necessary.

Tory made the comments recently in a wide-ranging year-end interview with CBC Toronto. The mayor would not give specifics about the ask which will come to city council next month when budget deliberations begin in earnest. But after  constraining the police budget when he was first elected in 2014, he believes it's now time to grow the services' $1.1- billion annual spending package.

"I will be advocating that (police) should get an increase, and that it's an increase that I think is entirely justifiable," Tory said. "When I go to the neighborhoods where there's been a shooting that's taken place … they want more money spent on police, they want more police officers."

Earlier this month, new Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw said he too would ask city council to hike the service's budget. Response times for calls are not where they should be, he said.

Tory said any increase will be done "responsibly" and within the limited funds of the city's budget, which opens the year with a $1.4-billion deficit. He stressed that a cut would not be appropriate."

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #toronto #ontario #john tory #toronto police service #toronto police

[newsfromstolenland]

"A group representing women affected by an infamous bathhouse raid is questioning the appointment of Myron Demkiw as Toronto Police chief.

In an open letter, which was provided to the Star, members of the Toronto Women’s Bathhouse committee, who were subjected to the raid of the popular Pussy Palace event for queer women and trans people at a rented bathhouse on Mutual St. in 2000, say they oppose Demkiw’s promotion because of his involvement in the operation.

“In your two year hiring process, the communities you consulted told you that they have significant concerns about police accountability,” the letter sent Tuesday to Mayor John Tory and Toronto Police Services Board chair Jim Hart. “What message does the appointment of an officer who has been directly involved in a breach of civil liberties send to those communities?”

Demkiw was then a member of the service’s now disbanded vice squad when he and four other male officers carried out a raid that an Ontario judge would later call a “flagrant” violation of charter rights.

The ticketed and licensed Pussy Palace events were intended to be a sex-positive, safe space for members of the LGBTQ2S+ community to meet, drink and play.

“With the appointment of Mr. Demkiw, Mayor John Tory and the TPS board have shown that they have little interest in meaningful action on the concerns raised by historically oppressed communities regarding unchecked police power,” the letter says.

The chief position is selected by the Toronto Police Services Board, of which Tory has been a member since he was first elected in 2014."

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#ontario #toronto #toronto police #myron demkiw #pussy palace raid #john tory #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbt+ #lgbtq+ #cops #police #cops tw #police tw #homophobia #transphobia #lesbophobia #queerphobia #mine

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Swastika Feud Battles in Toronto Injure 4, Fists, Boots, Piping Used in Bloor Street War," Toronto Globe. August 17, 1933. Page 1 & 2. ---- "Hail Hitler" Is Youth's Cry; City in Turmoil ---- Trucks Loaded With Jews and Italians Rush to Scene ---- POLICE ARE CALLED --- Willowvale Park Fracas Spreads to Bloor and Clinton ---- "Hail Hitler" - the taunt shouted by an unknown youth, waving a Swastika flag, on the banks of Willow-vale Park about 10.30 o'clock last evening precipitated Toronto's first Swastika riots, and sent four youths, three Jews and one Gentile lad, to the Western Hospital.While there are known to have been more injured in the pitched battle, fought with fists, boots, piping, and other weapons, and surging along Bloor Street from Willowvale Park (Christie Street) to Clinton Street, these are the youths who were taken to hospital:

DAVID FISCHER, AGED 21, 46 SPADINA AVENUE, abrasions about the head and face, struck by a piece of pipe at Christie and Bloor Streets.

AL ECKLER, AGED 23, 112 BRUNSWICK AVENUE, lacerations of the back and cut on head, struck by a baseball bat near the Park.

JOE BROWN, AGED 22, 118 EUCLID AVENUE, knocked down at Clinton and Bloor Streets, kicked in the face, and taken to hospital with badly cut face and lips.

JOE GOLDSTEIN, AGED 17, BELLWOODS AVENUE, struck with a baseball bat at Willowvale Park, sustained two cuts on the head which required several stitches.

Battle in Park. The Bloor Street battle followed earlier, but less serious trouble at Willowvale Park, and occurred after police believed they had squelched all the incipient fireworks. Who the youth was who waved the Swastika and shouted the "Hail, Hitler" challenge no one knows, but he was immediately rushed by a group of Jewish youths and reputedly knocked cold.

The assault upon the swastika wielder was the signal for a general inrush of Christian youths. who piled baseball bats and fists in a wild riot. By the time.police reserves arrived the battle had gradually moved over to Bloor and Clinton Streets, where some serious casualties occurred, and where, it is alleged, bottles for the first time became legitimate weapons. From this battlefront, it is said, many injured limped away or were assisted to their various homes.

Boys on a bicycle carried the news of the Christian-Jewish pitched battle down into the Brunswick-Spadina Avenue district, largely populated by Jews, and where there was a large gathering of Jewish people. The rumor was spread that a Jewish boy had been killed. Immediately. it is said, the Jews began to assemble motor trucks and passenger cars for assault upon the, Bloor Street sector, and, it is reported, they were joined by a carload of Italians.

Truckloads Assembled. These truckloads of Jews and Italians raced up to Bloor Street to participate in the fights, but were halted or sidetracked by police. who had arrived in the interval. Jewish lads hanging on the running-boards of the vehicles, however, were pulled off by Christian lads, and some of them reputedly injured.

The police seized two of the trucks and one passenger car and took them with their drivers to Ossington Avenue Police Station. They were soon released, however, after the drivers had given their names and addresses In one of the trucks was found a piece of two by four inch scantling, seven feet long, with a long spike driven in one end of it - - a potent weapon for any argument.

College Street, from Brunswick to Spadina Avenue, was thronged. by Jews late last evening, awaiting to hear the news, and exchanging what seemed to be wildly exaggerated rumors of the seriousness of the affair. Police estimated that 5,000 Jews surged College Street in this section.

Threats of impending reprisals were said to be plentiful among the College Street throngs of Jews.

Sequel to Ball Game. Swazis and Jews tangled in a more or less anticipated free-for-all, which climaxed the second game of the St. Peter-Harbord series at Willowvale Park. Precautionary measures and prompt action on the part of the police cut short active hostilities, und the large crowd of onlookers and luke-warm partisans was easily dispersed by a half dozen mounted men and a few motorcycle police. But two people received injuries before the brawl was stopped.

Last night's activities were apparently linked up with minor disturbances said to have taken place at the first game of the series, which was played on Monday evening. The two teams which are fighting in the junior semi-finals for the city softball championship are made up almost entirely of Jews in the case of the Harbord team, and ot non-Semetics in the St. Peter's line-up. Although both teams have officially disassociated themselves from any Swazi-Semitic controversy. partisans and onlookers have made the games an occasion for demonstrations.

Trouble began in a group seated on the rising ground above the north-west diamond, on which the game was being played. According to bystanders. there as an interchange of abusive remarks, followed by fisticuffs and a show of bats and sticks. The approach of a constable cut the fracas short, and the participants took night over the hill and out of the park by way of Barton Avenue.

Trouble During Game. Although the game was only in the second inning, the managers agreed to call off the contest in case of any further trouble. No disturbances developed, but the crowd of spectators increased as the other games in the park were finished, until a complete square of onlookers, in some places two and three deep, surrounded the outfield. In this group, and in the crowd seated on the hillside, were stationed a detail of constables from the Ossington Avenue Station and a sprinkling of plainclothesmen.

The game continued its regular routine, and, although no trouble appear-ed. there was a general quiet comment on the first fight, and the possibilities of further trouble. It was almost dark when the St. Peter's team ensured its 6-5 victory by catching a fly from the last Harbord batsman.

And at the same time some one could be distinguished laying a huge banner, apparently bearing a swastika,on a little mound just north of the park limits on Bloor Street. A group of 100 boys and young men streamed across the length of the park as fast as they could run. Some one hurriedly picked up the banner and ran south just as the van of the attackers reach-ed the mound. This group, now swell-ed to several hundred, chased the bearer of the Hitlerite insignia across Bloor Street and down Montrose Avenue, apparently cornering him in anextension of Bickford Ravine.

Traffic Is Stopped. A few minutes later several hundred surged back Montrose headed by a group of young Jews carrying what was left of the Swastika. As they reached Bloor Street, the police marched into the centre of the mix-up, laid hands on the banner and the 21-year-old Jew, who was carrying it. and began to disperse the crowd of several thousand which had practically stopped all Bloor Street traffic.

With the assistance of six mounted police, who were greeted with a slight burst of booing, the constables soon re-established traffic on Bloor Street, and by this means divided the crowd. The latter, made up for the most part of neutral spectators, dispersed into the park and neighborhood in short order. Two motorcycle police drove down into the playing fields and patrolled these for some time occasionally letting the fumes fly from their exhaust but apparently without serious purpose.

Reserves Called Out. Police arrangements were in charge of Patrol Sergeant Robert Reid of the Ossington Avenue Station. After traffic was stopped on Bloor Street, reserves were called in from the Dundas West, the North Toronto and the Davenport Road Stations, under Inspector Robert Anderson and Acting Inspectors Fenwick and Evans.

In a statement to the press last night the managers of both teams united with S. A. Sansone in declaring that the members of their teams were in no way connected with the disturbance. Some of the opposing players, according to the managers had played together on other teams and there has been, and there is no hard feeling between them. They expressed the hope that the Toronto Amateur Softball Association would see fit to schedule the remaining games of the series in a closed park where admission could be in some way restricted.

#toronto #christie pits riot #christie pits #antisemitism #fascism in canada #swastika club #antisemitism in canada #racism in canada #antifascism #toronto police #race riot #crime and punishment in canada #great depression in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada #youth delinquency #youth in revolt #jewish canadians #street fighting

[babakca]

Toronto Police. lol.

Be carful around this guy :)

#street photography #toronto street photography #toronto #Toronto Police #Police #IRGC #Iran police #Crime #Dundas Square. #Toronto Walk #Funny Cop

[intersectionalpraxis]

When a bunch of white people (many of them white supremacists if not a majority) started a "freedom convoy" at a critical part in downtown Ottawa -and assaulted and harassed people endlessly (I know MANY people who were scared to go anywhere because of them and who were actually attacked), the cops did NOTHING. I have seen these convoy people go on lives getting up in cops faces -taunting and threatening them but screaming about their civil rights. And they did this FREELY for weeks on end (and still do their rallies without disruption). Wtf could elicit something like this? These bigoted cops.

I also heard the cops allegedly formed a protective line in front of a zionist minutes after he fired a NAIL GUN at the protest.

An article was also released recently, and I think Amanda encompasses my exact thoughts:

We need to hold zionists and white supremacists ACCOUNTABLE for the terror and violence they cause ALL around the world. Enough is enough.

#feminist #social justice #free palestine #palestine #freepalastine🇵🇸 #free gaza #current events #settler colonialism #settler violence #canada #toronto #the zionist entity #zionist occupation #protest #palestinian liberation #defund the police #defund the cops #defund police #defund the government #abolish the police #gaza genocide #end the occupation #ceasefire now #global news

[commiepinkofag]

A gay “kiss-in” demonstration Yonge and Bloor streets, Toronto, 17 July 1976

L to R: David Foreman, Tim McCaskell, Ed Jackson, Merv Walker, David Gibson, Michael Riordon. Credit: Gerald Hannon, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, accession 1986-032/08P(35).

On February 9, 1976, gay activists Tom Field and Bill Holloway were arrested at the corner of Yonge and Bloor streets in Toronto for kissing in public. They were charged with obstructing the sidewalk and committing an indecent act. Ironically, the men had been posing for photographs for an article on homophobia to be published in the now-defunct newspaper Alternative to Alienation. …

Field and Holloway were found guilty of committing an indecent act by Judge Charles Drukarsh on July 13, 1976, and were each fined $50. The ruling infuriated Gay Alliance Toward Equality [GATE], the Body Politic, and members of the community. The need for protest was in the air, but only a very special kind of protest would do. 

A few days later, on July 17, GATE and the Body Politic sponsored a kiss-in to support the right for gay people to publicly show affection. About twenty people paraded in same-sex couples at Yonge and Bloor streets, kissing as they walked. Policemen watched from the sidelines, but did not intervene. The protesters had made their point. — Donald W. McLeod

#kiss in #protest #demonstration #clga #canadian lesbian and gay archives #david foreman #tim mccaskell #ed jackson #merv walker #david gibson #michael riordon #gerald hannon #toronto #canada #1976 #1970s #70s #gay #queer #arrest #police #morals #alternative to alienation #body politic #homosexual #gay alliance toward equality #gate #tom field #bill holloway