Rosie DiManno is appalled, same as me:
They were days of infamy.
Today — astoundingly, unabashedly — Toronto cops will reward themselves for it with internal commendations.
Yes indeed. Step up and take a bow.
On a notorious weekend in 2010, with G20 leaders convening in our midst, this city became a mini police state, unrecognizable to people who lived here.
Cops could not control the streets — or themselves in some instances.
Two senior officers — a superintendent and an inspector — were subsequently charged under the police act for their alleged mismanagement in deploying troops that “kettled” peaceful protesters in the rain and rousted people from a university gym, making insupportable arrests willy-nilly.
A constable was charged by the special investigation unit with assault in the violent takedown at Queen’s Park of demonstrator Adam Nobody, but only after media provided videotape evidence of the baton-whipping episode.
The chief of police was excoriated for haplessness.
Upwards of a hundred cops removed their ID badges before all hell broke loose on the Legislature lawn.
A scathing report by Ontario’s ombudsman railed against “the most massive compromise of civil liberties in Canadian history.”...
Internal commendations; external condemnations. Surely even the chief can see that the latter cancels out the former.
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