G20 CLASS-ACTION LAWSUITS

Not bad. It's only been four years and two months to this point so far. Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story "G20 class-action lawsuits to move forward". Hundreds of people detained by police aka "kettling" is only part of the lawsuits. The other part deals with the treatment of those who were held at a "chaotic" detention centre during the summit.

Justice Ian Nordheimer wrote the following "In essence , in this case, we have a broad class of persons who were allegedly arbitrarily detained in each instance by the police through the use of a single sweeping order.". That indeed is the crux of the matter. Legally police can not arbitrarily arrest and imprison people without evidence of criminal activity. They grossly overstepped their authority and the biggest shame to date is that those responsible indiviuals haven't themselves done a day of prison time. That and that alone will be the only appropriate punishment for those persons legally allowed to walk around with weapons and who unfortunately feel that the laws of the land don't apply to themselves. It is also unfortunate that the outgoing Toronto police chief couldn't have spent some quality time in prison prior to his departure. Might give him and his sucessors a whole different attitude about throwing Canadain citizens in jail without legal cause.