In an incident captured on video, Stewart says he went to Allan Gardens on the Friday afternoon of the summit weekend in June 2010. He says several officers demanded to search his bag as a condition of entry into the park. In response, the police services board says officers were doing their best to preserve the peace and defend public property under provincial trespassing law. Since the summit, a senior police officer has been found guilty of misconduct for ordering mass arrests that weekend. One official report branded the mass detentions and arrests that weekend as one of Canada’s worst violations of civil liberties.

Source: thestar February 04, 2018 23:37 UTC