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TORONTO POLICE ACADEMY!!! OR SCHOOL OF LAWBREAKERS
AND ASSASSINS WITHOUT CONCIENCE? News GTA!
Police
officer apologizes for cyclist collision comments: Here are again the members of the
Toronto Police Academy; law enforcement officers committed “To Serve &
Protect” the Public. Most of their
courses revolve around what they call
“Public mischief: Criminal Code of Canada: (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46), gang sex, choking
to death, assaults, tasering, thefts, vandalism, drugs, perjury and extrajudicial executions." Who are the "Victims?" We
have to ask that question. They are Co- Workers, children, mothers, elderly
tenants living in the slums of public housing and other marginalized people.
They are social activists who are claiming by justice. They are starved mentally
ill people who were and are abused and tortured by the system. They are the
people of color and other minority
groups. “They become the targets of those who learn their lessons at the
Toronto Police Nazi Academy.”
Safety advocates argue the remarks point to
'pattern' of victim blaming
“Public mischief: Criminal Code of Canada: (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)
A 71-year-old cyclist was struck and killed near the corner
of Dupont and Christie Street on Tuesday afternoon. (Nakita Krucker
/ Toronto Star) | Order this photo
By Luke Simcoe Metro
Wed., July 6, 2016
A Toronto police spokesman has
apologized after comments he made regarding a fatal cyclist crash were labelled
“victim blaming” by safety advocates.
Const. Clinton Stibbe told Metro and
other media outlets the cyclist was travelling at a high speed and did not
“approach the area with enough care.”
But under Ontario law, the victim —
riding in the right-hand lane next to parked cars — had the right of way, a
fact Stibbe later acknowledged in a mea culpa on Twitter.
“I was wrong. Cyclist had right of way,
didn’t have to stop for car. Other factors contributed to crash,” he tweeted
Wednesday morning.
Some members of the city’s cycling
community thanked Stibbe for setting the record straight, while others took to
social media to admonish him for, among other things giving fuel to “the bike
haters.”
Stibbe did not respond to requests for
comments Wednesday afternoon.
Although he was glad to see Stibbe
admit fault, lawyer and Bike Law Canada founder Patrick Brown said the
officer’s comments were unacceptable.
“It sends the wrong message to the
driving public,” he said. “It’s that old Rob Ford culture of saying ‘if you
swim with sharks you’re going to get bit.’ It suggests cyclists are the victims
of their own misfortune.”
It’s not the first time Toronto police
— or Stibbe — have come under fire for how they refer to pedestrian and cyclists involved in collisions.
Last month, Stibbe was criticized after he told media “impatient” pedestrians
are the biggest problem at Toronto intersections.
Stibbe was also accused of victim
blaming in 2012, when he chastised seven pedestrians hit on a single day in
December for wearing dark clothing.
“It appears to me that there’s a
culture where police automatically think or assume that the bicyclist or the
pedestrian is at fault,” said Uri Samson, whose son, Tom, was killed by a
hit-and-run driver in 2012.
Tom, a Grade 2 teacher at Swansea
Public School and a father of two, was at the intersection of Lansdowne and
Davenport when he was hit. Police initially blamed Tom and told his family he
cycled through a red light.
A subsequent investigation concluded he
was “stationary or at near-zero velocity” when he was hit from behind.
Uri said police never apologized.
“It was absolutely horrible,” he said.
“Police should hold their tongues and wait until they can report something
that’s true, instead of just coming out and blaming the victim.”
As a personal injury lawyer, Brown said
he sees a “pattern” of police laying blame at the hands of pedestrians and
cyclists only to have their findings overturned.
“When they put the blinders on and look
at cyclists first and cars second, there’s a tendency to see that reflected in
the investigation and who gets charged,” he said. “That needs to change.”
Zorrillas: Terrorists in dark
blue uniform?
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