Residents challenge police harassment and brutality in their neighbourhood
Peter Aleksa & Kevin O’Toole, Toronto Media Coop – BASICS Issue #21 (July 2010)
On Sunday June 27, the Toronto Community Mobilization Network (TCMN) and the Movement Defense Committee (MDC) held a press conference at the Parkdale library to “highlight the willful violations of due process by police” and identify a “way ahead for Toronto communities.”
Over the course of the week, police from across the country committed systematic abuses of power against demonstrators, organizers and journalists. Several speakers described a climate of police intimidation, mass arrests, illegal detentions, searches and seizures, nighttime house raids, and physical brutality.
