SO SAD, TORONTO SENIOR COP'S MISCONDUCT FINDING UPHELD

Supt. David Fenton is not solely responsible for the largest single incident of a breech of citizens' civil rights in Canadian history. There were many less senior police officers under his command who carried out his dirty work for him. Whether it was "kettling" innocent civilians in large crowds and forcing them to stand out in the rain for a period of hours or whether it was falsely and illegally arresting hundreds more and confining them in metal cages without food, water or bathrooms; the man is an asshole. Apparently a completely stupid asshole which has to make you wonder: are senior Toronto police officers promoted to the position of Superintendant because precisely they are stupid assholes who follow orders; even ones that a first year police officer should know are illegal?

Then of course there are the officers even higher up the ladder than Supt. Fenton. Was Supt. Fenton performing his illegal acts in a vacuum? Were the deputy chiefs, other Superintendants and Chief thousands of miles away? Was this a dead of night, police skullduggery and corruption type of offence done surepticiously? No it was done in broad daylight in downtown Toronto for God's sake. This was the G20 conference held in June 2010. My son-in-law was living and working in downtown Toronto at the time. Fortunately he decided that it was a very good time to spend the weekend with us up in Elmira away from what turned out to be a demonstration not so much of mass civil disobedience as a case of mass police obedience to illegal and unlawful orders. Believe it folks despite all the rhetoric since, we are that close to a police state. No one has gone to jail. No one has been fired. The highest up the police food chain has had his vacations days reduced and he's been fined the loss of 30 days pay. Whoopee sh.. ! He was also determined to be guilty of professional misconduct. Good God send him to jail for at least a few weeks. See how much he enjoys confinement courtesy of the state. if you're going to hand it out illegally then you'd better be prepared to enjoy some of your own medicine. The asshole is still a Toronto cop. These are the kinds of people in charge. Ones higher up avoided all formal penalties. Hopefully their friends, neighbours and families have learned a valuable lesson here. Titles and awards do not make for good human beings much less intelligent ones. The article in today's K-W Record is titled "Misconduct finding against senior G20 cop upheld".