[Bacardi4206]

Ok, I call bullshit. The Bus's were shut down around the protest areas. What's a TCC bus driver doing walking around "going to work" when his job was generally shut down in his area because of the protestors. Regardless, if I am missing anything,

The comment he said the cops made also sounds beyong ridiculous and beyond reality. Cops don't go around arresting random people for shits and giggles. Cops aren't stupid. They know they will get fired for that or worse. Yet he claims they did it for shits and giggled or w/e? I beyond call bullshit on this story but I wasn't there so w/e.

[BartSimpson]

Bacardi4206 Bacardi4206:

What's a TCC bus driver doing walking around "going to work" when his job was generally shut down in his area because of the protestors.

Obviously, he was walking to work because the buses were shut down.

[djakeydd]

andyt andyt:

They should have beat this scumbag down - obviously a black bloc in disguise. Nice police work, keeping us safe from thugs like this guy.

I think that guy should have been kept in custody myself..bad cops

[Curtman]

Bacardi4206 Bacardi4206:

Ok, I call bullshit. The Bus's were shut down around the protest areas.

It's probably easier to randomly call bullshit rather than read the article 'eh?

$1:

Benjamin Elroy Yau, 37, said he was walking along College St. to the Queen’s Park subway station before his 6 p.m. shift when two police officers “tackled” him to the ground and yelled at him to stop resisting arrest.

You're saying there was no 6PM shift, or that the subway was closed as well?

[mentalfloss]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Bacardi4206 Bacardi4206:

What's a TCC bus driver doing walking around "going to work" when his job was generally shut down in his area because of the protestors.

Obviously, he was walking to work because the buses were shut down.

Not sure I follow where this is going, but even if he wasn't working, was there any validation for his arrest?

[Curtman]

mentalfloss mentalfloss:

Not sure I follow where this is going, but even if he wasn't working, was there any validation for his arrest?

The general idea here is that anybody who happened to be downtown at the time shouldn't have been there, and anybody was or who thinks otherwise is obviously a lying anarchist.

[EyeBrock]

Says the man who gets his information from youtube.

No credibility curt.

You left it in tatters on all the other G20 threads.

[Curtman]

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

Says the man who gets his information from youtube.

No credibility curt.

You left it in tatters on all the other G20 threads.

It's not my credibility thats in question. A group of 30 or so thugs caused the destruction, while the police did nothing to stop it. That is the justification for 900 or so arrests? The chief of police deliberately mislead the public. The credibility of the police is what matters.

[EyeBrock]

Yep, it's all the cops fault.

[Curtman]

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

Yep, it's all the cops fault.

I'd rather put the blame on Harper for holding the thing in downtown Toronto.

[EyeBrock]

Ok Harper and the cops fault then.

[Curtman]

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

Ok Harper and the cops fault then.

No, mostly just Harper. You can't really blame the cops for failing an impossible mission.

$1:

He did not board his windows in preparation for the demonstration. “I was relying on the police,” he says. “I really did not believe the police would allow this to happen. That same day, in the morning, my friends said, ‘Close up and go home.’ I said, ‘Why?’ ”

$1:

“You’re standing in your store and someone comes to you like this?” continues Salimi, who has also lived in India and Pakistan. “I’ve never seen that before.”

Salimi checks his phone and sees that he called police at 4:15 p.m. on Saturday. “They said they couldn’t come. They said, ‘Protect yourself.’ ”

They said they couldn't come, not that they wouldn't come. I'd blame them if it was the latter.

[OnTheIce]

Curtman Curtman:

Bacardi4206 Bacardi4206:

Ok, I call bullshit. The Bus's were shut down around the protest areas.

It's probably easier to randomly call bullshit rather than read the article 'eh?

$1:

Benjamin Elroy Yau, 37, said he was walking along College St. to the Queen’s Park subway station before his 6 p.m. shift when two police officers “tackled” him to the ground and yelled at him to stop resisting arrest.

You're saying there was no 6PM shift, or that the subway was closed as well?

Why bother talk about topics you have no understanding about? Do you know the hours of the TTC? Do you know what stations were open/closed or had limited access?

Talk about things you know, not about what you pretend to know based on a couple articles and videos.

I don't know when these guys start their shifts or what the situation was....so I keep my ass out of the conversation.

Rather than jump into a conversation just to spew bias, keep yourself out unless you have some sort of understanding of a situation that extends beyond some news clips and YouTube videos.

You often add nothing to a conversation but empty rhetoric in the attempt to get people pissed off. Perhaps a new hobby for you is in order.

[Curtman]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

I don't know when these guys start their shifts or what the situation was....so I keep my ass out of the conversation.

That sounds reasonable. Except you would know if you read the article, and so would Bacardi4206.

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

You often add nothing to a conversation but empty rhetoric in the attempt to get people pissed off.

And the point of your post was good natured I'm sure.

[Bacardi4206]

Curtman Curtman:

Bacardi4206 Bacardi4206:

Ok, I call bullshit. The Bus's were shut down around the protest areas.

It's probably easier to randomly call bullshit rather than read the article 'eh?

Yeah, do you live around there? Because I do, you couldn't get a bus if your life depended on it. They were all shut down due to the protestests. For the obvious reasons of both protestors and cops blocking off many streets. So no, I am not randomly calling bullshit. I am calling bullshit based on the fact there is no need for TCC drivers at the time being TCC bus's were shut down for the protests. A lot of workers were told to stay home that day. So I am calling bullshit on the fact some random TCC worker was just roaming the streets "going to work". That is the issue I have trouble with. I also did read the article, the only part that validates his part of the story is some TCC supervisor vouching for him. However unless he lives far from his work and works in a area well around the protest grounds and other streets near them. I still don't see why a TCC worker is there when his job is generally disabled for the day. In that areas atleast.

I also call bullshit on what he quoted from the officers, that quote doesn't sound realistic in the least. Neither does some cops randomly arresting TCC workers for shits and giggles but as I said, I wasn't there so I cannot comment further. I can only state my opinion is thinking its bullshit.