Hmm the plot thickens I must say I am lovin' Rosie for being a real pit bull on this issue GO ROSIE!!!!
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/902664--a-second-look-at-g20-police-assault?bn=1
It appears that his video has given the pavlovian pooches like NB another kick at the can. His response also makes clear NB claim that he should have said, 'Gestapo-like' was whooie. He meant what he said and he has raised it to another level with 'Gestapo pigs'.
Rosie's article was very well written and brought to light some very craftily worded phrases which NB seems to have missed or worse ignored in his rant;
-This sequence is far more definitive and revealing of what happened in that incident than the disputed — by Blair, anyway —YouTube video scrutinized earlier by the Special Investigations Unit. The independent agency last week concluded it was unable to identify the officers involved and could therefore not lay charges.
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here is at least one cop who should be recognizable to anyone studying the images.
Which doesn’t mean Mr. Policeman is a member of the Toronto force, although it appears to be a Toronto police crest on his shoulder. Many others were brought in from across the country to supplement the local crew. But they were all under Blair’s command.
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Neither this footage nor the YouTube piece show what happened only moments earlier; why Nobody drew such a ferocious response from a group of officers inside the perimeter that was simultaneously established by visored and shield-wielding cop colleagues, probably members of the Public Order Unit, given their strategic defensive positioning and the type of weapons they’re carrying.
-This past Friday,
Blair retracted his comments and apologized, to an extent.
“In an effort to demonstrate the potential significance of the missing audio and video, I said police were attempting to arrest an armed criminal and that the missing video images might have shed light on the reasons force was used,’’ he said in a statement.
“This statement created a false impression that I wish to clarify. I have no evidence that he was armed or violent and all charges against the injured man have been withdrawn. I regret the false impression that my comments may have created and apologize to Mr. Nobody.’’
The second videographer was also very careful in his very measured statement and it was well put;
-When this new videotape shooter spoke with the Star on Monday,
he was careful not to paint all police during the G20 protests as brutalizing. “I think there was a lot of anger on both sides. I understand how scary it was to be a cop that day and even these . . . on the video . . . it doesn’t necessarily make them bad guys. But when you have that kind of authority, you really need to exercise some self-control.
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I've said before that the removal of identification is serious and should be handled thusly. I disagree that it's a firing offense. There are other serious sanctions that can be leveled. The falsification of records is also very serious and I wonder, if there were any of the interior surveillance at the holding facility, that these may shed new information on this action.
As for Fuji's rant, well it's from Fuji, 'nuff said for now.