Photos from the December 10 action outside the US Consulate
Photojournalist John Pinel Donoghue was in downtown Toronto on December 10 to attend a pro-Palestine demonstration demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. The protest, attended by several thousand people, started outside the United States Consulate on University Avenue. It then moved to Yonge-Dundas Square before relocating to Toronto Police 52 division headquarters after a protester was arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer.
According to the Toronto Star, the incident happened after “a police officer on foot [rammed] his bicycle into the bicycle of a woman standing in front of him. The woman, who was holding her bicycle, fell over as the bike toppled. A man ran up after and shoved an officer to the ground in retaliation. Police then tackled, beat and arrested him.” Video of the altercation shows a group of officers pinning a man to the ground, one with their knee, while another punches him repeatedly. (more...)
Sure hope Toronto Police intend to explain why this person was arrested, why one officer was punching them repeatedly, and another aggressively kneeling. What warrants this kind of force on someone already on the ground? https://t.co/MbQT06llrL
— Elamin Abdelmahmoud (@elamin88) December 10, 2023
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