James Morton gives the backdrop in The Ottawa Citizen:
The facts of Bonds’s treatment bear repeating. She was walking on Rideau Street in downtown Ottawa. She was neither drunk nor behaving inappropriately. The police stopped her and asked her name; she provided it.
After checking her name and finding nothing, the police told her she could go on her way. Bonds, as is her perfect right, asked why she had been stopped in the first place.
In response, the police arrested her for public intoxication and handcuffed her. As Ontario Court Judge Richard Lajoie later held, Bonds was not drunk. Once Bonds was taken to Ottawa Police headquarters, the judge noted that she was anything but “violent or aggressive.â€
The full video is also available at The Ottawa Citizen.
And here is the petition calling for the firing of the thugs. It may be ‘only’ a petition, but what else can we do.
Post far and wide.
This is not “law, order and good government”.
It is disgusting to know that the public have continued to pay the salaries of these brutes. Two years is too long to wait for justice. I hope the victims will be compensated and the miscreants barred from law enforcement forever.
They do not deserve a pension and should face criminal charges.
If this is what our police officers do behind closed doors. I am ashamed of our country.
If I was dragged down a hall with my hands tied behind my back, and then pushed and shoved like that I would be outraged!
If that was my daughter I would demand the five police officers be charged with aggravated sexual assault for cutting her clothes off of her. I would demand that any administrator who trained or in charge of these thugs be fired and every penny they made from policing be recalled.
There are good police officers then there are these five.
Ontario needs to be accountable, the Ombudsman laws before Queens Park can not be passed fast enough. Canadians must speak up so this filth does not occur in nursing homes, schools, or hospitals and the legislation should be amended to include the Police.
Premier Dalton McGuinty is fully aware of this type of outrageous conduct in our schools, in our hospitals and obviously in our police forces. All this is public knowledge. Mr. McGuinty, your government is the only ones holding up accountability. You Sir and you alone are responsible for this outrage. How many more children will commit suicide before you wake up? If you are not going to make institutions accountable then get off the throne and let somebody in your party that can read and actually think do the job you have refused to do in the interest of public safety and dignity.
Why should the average citizen give up every penny they own to take on institutions like this in our courts? Mr. McGuinty you have failed all of us!
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Looking for some feedback: Sometimes I wonder whether unlawful acts by the police bullying individuals can be a blessing in disguise in the long term for the defense of these individuals.
I mean it definately helps the charges being stayed. It’s a bad versus worse situation…Personally I rather be assaulted and go to hostpital for a week then to get a criminal record/go to jail etc. if I’m caught doing something illegal. In a perfect world, no one makes mistakes obviously but hey this is the real world and we need real world solutions to real world problems.
Nothing is going to come of this. This is Ottawa, Canada; on the surface, land of PC and fair play but NOT. While there are many wonderful things about this city the police force is exactly that. FORCE !!! The majority of officers are racist, uneducated and basically the class bullies that that now have the authority to do just what they always wanted. While I personally have met some fantastic individuals as cops I have had my share of a similar nightmare.
Guilty until proven innocent and if the situation prevails that one can’t do so well then the default applies. Guilty and be treated as such.
People forget these incidents and as these are not mass scale riots it goes ignored since the attitude is “what’s an individuals plight, after all it can never happen to me”.
Just pray that this is not you or your child next. Because the one thing you can be sure of is the fact that this situation will escalate and only get worse …hopefully then get better. Lets hope.
What Stacy Bonds really needs is money to hire REAL legal help for Her own lawsuit. A judges comment means nothing. The judge MUST eventually always side with the police. Since the advent of digital video there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed!
Who will take a job where you could take a bullet any random day you go to work – and it’s all part of the job ? I laugh at the construction worker who thinks his job is more dangerous “statistically” than a police officer’s
Everyone’s had to deal with the police at one time or another and most of us have learned these officers don’t have time to deal with argumentative smart-asses… and some don’t have the patience for it either – and who can blame them ? The next speeder/perp/vagrant/criminal may pull a gun on them and change their life forever.. Stacy knows very well how she pushed the limits, pushing buttons … sounds like a real class act to be spitting on anyone