#paintgate — Public Fediverse posts

Heads up.
Another in my excessively long rants, this time about weaponizing "Reported" incidents without considering WHO reports.

____

Toronto Police Service (TPS) has finally decided to get off their asses and investigate a racist incident from over a month ago.

https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/news-releases/65303/

This happened to someone I know, and I have been part of the team helping her navigate dealing with the cops since.

She was walking through The PATH, like thousands of other people do every single day, when a random racist asshole spit on her then started verbally abusing her.

First, she tried to get a screenshot of the footage showing the perpetrator's face from the security office, but they told her that they would only release footage to the police.

So after much discussion, the desire to get the images to inform other Black people in the area that this guy is out there meant that she needed to file the police report.

It only took a couple of days for the police to get the footage. We know this because they TOLD her they had it, but somehow, it took OVER A MONTH to get these stills to the public — and they would not give them to her directly.

Good luck finding the witnesses at this point, and having their recollections of the event go unchallenged in court, should it get there. 🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾

https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/2026/02/26/police-search-for-man-who-allegedly-hurled-anti-black-slurs-spat-at-someone-in-torontos-path-network

This is Secondary Victimization, and TPS does it ALL THE TIME.

I don't want to say that the officer in charge (OinC) this particular case dragged his feet intentionally, but sure FEELS like it's a practice of TPS to side with the racists.

• My Lazy Ass.
I've been dancing around getting into this topic for literally years, and I guess it's time. Most recently, it was the three day old incident referenced here:

"We have literally taken up warning marginalized people not to go into 52 during his shifts, because he is such an abusive dick. I just did this again 3 days ago."
https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/115935207575196398

Here we go.

••••••••••••••••••••
"Hate Crime" Statistics:
Disparities in Reporting Ease
and Unseen Barriers Skew Public
Perception of Who is Being Targeted.
••••••••••••••••••••

Black people in Toronto face significant barriers when attempting to report hate crimes to the Toronto Police Service (TPS), leading to chronic underreporting and a conveniently distorted picture of anti-Black hate in "official statistics."

Official reports, independent inquiries, community accounts, and statistical patterns all show that the Toronto Police Service (TPS) does not provide equally accessible or responsive pathways for reporting hate incidents across all groups.

[I would like you to note that the above incident where the TPS put out a call for witnesses HAPPENED WELL OVER A MONTH AGO. ]

While TPS maintains general reporting mechanisms and acknowledges underreporting as a "broad issue," systemic barriers—particularly for Black communities—create those disparities in ease of reporting, classification, responsiveness, and outcomes especially when compared to some other groups (e.g., Jewish communities).

It's not a coincidence that they align with the biases of the cops themselves.

• The Stats.
Official TPS data for 2024 (the the most recent information available) shows 76 reported hate crimes motivated by anti-Black bias, ranking third behind anti-Jewish (177) and anti-2SLGBTQ+ (79) incidents.

Do you sincerely believe that only 76 black people in Toronto were accosted for racial reasons, whether verbally or physically, in the entire year of 2024? Consider that Toronto has more than twice as many Black people as Jewish people.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has documented systemic racial discrimination, racial profiling, and anti-Black bias in TPS practices, including in use of force, stops, searches, and charging decisions. This fosters deep mistrust: many Black individuals perceive police as unresponsive or hostile to their victimization, leading to reluctance to report.

Victims may fear escalation, secondary victimization, or that their reports will be dismissed or mishandled, especially given historical patterns where police have ignored or downplayed anti-Black incidents while prioritizing others.

If you need further evidence of police bias in dealing with Black victims of hate crimes, check out the #paintgate hashtag here on Mastodon.

Or I can point you to my January 2025 blog post, which delineates my personal experience following the incident at a August 2023 solidarity march.

https://gigi.noblogs.org/post/2025/01/28/blackness-and-the-canadian-justice-system-an-unexpected-illustration/

Tl;dr After being doused in white paint by a white man (an act I documented), I was repeatedly ignored when seeking to report it—despite very visibly being covered in paint and possessing video proof.

(Quick acknowledgement that I WOULDN'T HAVE EVEN BOTHERED HAD THEY NOT ARRESTED TWO WRONG PEOPLE and I needed to get that corrected.)

Cops dismissed my attempts to file a report at the station claiming to be "too busy," yet they had managed to act swiftly on the white perpetrator's claim against unrelated people, including an Indigenous youth.

Only after viral social media pressure and attention did police arrest the assailant for public mischief.

It was also not counted among the hate incidents of 2023 because that classification relies on police discretion in report-writing, and they frequently choose to omit racial dynamics in order to further punish the victim.

Blackness renders us "invisible" to the system, unless we're being perceived as threatening.

The unwritten reality is that "help" is just not coming for Black or Indigenous victims, especially for "hate crimes".

#racism #SystemicRacism #policeDontKeepUsSafe #policeDontPreventCrime #FuckThePolice

Heads up.
Another in my excessively long rants, this time about weaponizing "Reported" incidents without considering WHO reports.

____

Toronto Police Service (TPS) has finally decided to get off their asses and investigate a racist incident from over a month ago.

https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/news-releases/65303/

This happened to someone I know, and I have been part of the team helping her navigate dealing with the cops since.

She was walking through The PATH, like thousands of other people do every single day, when a random racist asshole spit on her then started verbally abusing her.

First, she tried to get a screenshot of the footage showing the perpetrator's face from the security office, but they told her that they would only release footage to the police.

So after much discussion, the desire to get the images to inform other Black people in the area that this guy is out there meant that she needed to file the police report.

It only took a couple of days for the police to get the footage. We know this because they TOLD her they had it, but somehow, it took OVER A MONTH to get these stills to the public — and they would not give them to her directly.

Good luck finding the witnesses at this point, and having their recollections of the event go unchallenged in court, should it get there. 🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾

https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/2026/02/26/police-search-for-man-who-allegedly-hurled-anti-black-slurs-spat-at-someone-in-torontos-path-network

This is Secondary Victimization, and TPS does it ALL THE TIME.

I don't want to say that the officer in charge (OinC) this particular case dragged his feet intentionally, but sure FEELS like it's a practice of TPS to side with the racists.

• My Lazy Ass.
I've been dancing around getting into this topic for literally years, and I guess it's time. Most recently, it was the three day old incident referenced here:

"We have literally taken up warning marginalized people not to go into 52 during his shifts, because he is such an abusive dick. I just did this again 3 days ago."
https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/115935207575196398

Here we go.

••••••••••••••••••••
"Hate Crime" Statistics:
Disparities in Reporting Ease
and Unseen Barriers Skew Public
Perception of Who is Being Targeted.
••••••••••••••••••••

Black people in Toronto face significant barriers when attempting to report hate crimes to the Toronto Police Service (TPS), leading to chronic underreporting and a conveniently distorted picture of anti-Black hate in "official statistics."

Official reports, independent inquiries, community accounts, and statistical patterns all show that the Toronto Police Service (TPS) does not provide equally accessible or responsive pathways for reporting hate incidents across all groups.

[I would like you to note that the above incident where the TPS put out a call for witnesses HAPPENED WELL OVER A MONTH AGO. ]

While TPS maintains general reporting mechanisms and acknowledges underreporting as a "broad issue," systemic barriers—particularly for Black communities—create those disparities in ease of reporting, classification, responsiveness, and outcomes especially when compared to some other groups (e.g., Jewish communities).

It's not a coincidence that they align with the biases of the cops themselves.

• The Stats.
Official TPS data for 2024 (the the most recent information available) shows 76 reported hate crimes motivated by anti-Black bias, ranking third behind anti-Jewish (177) and anti-2SLGBTQ+ (79) incidents.

Do you sincerely believe that only 76 black people in Toronto were accosted for racial reasons, whether verbally or physically, in the entire year of 2024? Consider that Toronto has more than twice as many Black people as Jewish people.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has documented systemic racial discrimination, racial profiling, and anti-Black bias in TPS practices, including in use of force, stops, searches, and charging decisions. This fosters deep mistrust: many Black individuals perceive police as unresponsive or hostile to their victimization, leading to reluctance to report.

Victims may fear escalation, secondary victimization, or that their reports will be dismissed or mishandled, especially given historical patterns where police have ignored or downplayed anti-Black incidents while prioritizing others.

If you need further evidence of police bias in dealing with Black victims of hate crimes, check out the #paintgate hashtag here on Mastodon.

Or I can point you to my January 2025 blog post, which delineates my personal experience following the incident at a August 2023 solidarity march.

https://gigi.noblogs.org/post/2025/01/28/blackness-and-the-canadian-justice-system-an-unexpected-illustration/

Tl;dr After being doused in white paint by a white man (an act I documented), I was repeatedly ignored when seeking to report it—despite very visibly being covered in paint and possessing video proof.

(Quick acknowledgement that I WOULDN'T HAVE EVEN BOTHERED HAD THEY NOT ARRESTED TWO WRONG PEOPLE and I needed to get that corrected.)

Cops dismissed my attempts to file a report at the station claiming to be "too busy," yet they had managed to act swiftly on the white perpetrator's claim against unrelated people, including an Indigenous youth.

Only after viral social media pressure and attention did police arrest the assailant for public mischief.

It was also not counted among the hate incidents of 2023 because that classification relies on police discretion in report-writing, and they frequently choose to omit racial dynamics in order to further punish the victim.

Blackness renders us "invisible" to the system, unless we're being perceived as threatening.

The unwritten reality is that "help" is just not coming for Black or Indigenous victims, especially for "hate crimes".

#racism #SystemicRacism #policeDontKeepUsSafe #policeDontPreventCrime #FuckThePolice

Heads up.
Another in my excessively long rants, this time about weaponizing "Reported" incidents without considering WHO reports.

____

Toronto Police Service (TPS) has finally decided to get off their asses and investigate a racist incident from over a month ago.

https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/news-releases/65303/

This happened to someone I know, and I have been part of the team helping her navigate dealing with the cops since.

She was walking through The PATH, like thousands of other people do every single day, when a random racist asshole spit on her then started verbally abusing her.

First, she tried to get a screenshot of the footage showing the perpetrator's face from the security office, but they told her that they would only release footage to the police.

So after much discussion, the desire to get the images to inform other Black people in the area that this guy is out there meant that she needed to file the police report.

It only took a couple of days for the police to get the footage. We know this because they TOLD her they had it, but somehow, it took OVER A MONTH to get these stills to the public — and they would not give them to her directly.

Good luck finding the witnesses at this point, and having their recollections of the event go unchallenged in court, should it get there. 🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾

https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/2026/02/26/police-search-for-man-who-allegedly-hurled-anti-black-slurs-spat-at-someone-in-torontos-path-network

This is Secondary Victimization, and TPS does it ALL THE TIME.

I don't want to say that the officer in charge (OinC) this particular case dragged his feet intentionally, but sure FEELS like it's a practice of TPS to side with the racists.

• My Lazy Ass.
I've been dancing around getting into this topic for literally years, and I guess it's time. Most recently, it was the three day old incident referenced here:

"We have literally taken up warning marginalized people not to go into 52 during his shifts, because he is such an abusive dick. I just did this again 3 days ago."
https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/115935207575196398

Here we go.

••••••••••••••••••••
"Hate Crime" Statistics:
Disparities in Reporting Ease
and Unseen Barriers Skew Public
Perception of Who is Being Targeted.
••••••••••••••••••••

Black people in Toronto face significant barriers when attempting to report hate crimes to the Toronto Police Service (TPS), leading to chronic underreporting and a conveniently distorted picture of anti-Black hate in "official statistics."

Official reports, independent inquiries, community accounts, and statistical patterns all show that the Toronto Police Service (TPS) does not provide equally accessible or responsive pathways for reporting hate incidents across all groups.

[I would like you to note that the above incident where the TPS put out a call for witnesses HAPPENED WELL OVER A MONTH AGO. ]

While TPS maintains general reporting mechanisms and acknowledges underreporting as a "broad issue," systemic barriers—particularly for Black communities—create those disparities in ease of reporting, classification, responsiveness, and outcomes especially when compared to some other groups (e.g., Jewish communities).

It's not a coincidence that they align with the biases of the cops themselves.

• The Stats.
Official TPS data for 2024 (the the most recent information available) shows 76 reported hate crimes motivated by anti-Black bias, ranking third behind anti-Jewish (177) and anti-2SLGBTQ+ (79) incidents.

Do you sincerely believe that only 76 black people in Toronto were accosted for racial reasons, whether verbally or physically, in the entire year of 2024? Consider that Toronto has more than twice as many Black people as Jewish people.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has documented systemic racial discrimination, racial profiling, and anti-Black bias in TPS practices, including in use of force, stops, searches, and charging decisions. This fosters deep mistrust: many Black individuals perceive police as unresponsive or hostile to their victimization, leading to reluctance to report.

Victims may fear escalation, secondary victimization, or that their reports will be dismissed or mishandled, especially given historical patterns where police have ignored or downplayed anti-Black incidents while prioritizing others.

If you need further evidence of police bias in dealing with Black victims of hate crimes, check out the #paintgate hashtag here on Mastodon.

Or I can point you to my January 2025 blog post, which delineates my personal experience following the incident at a August 2023 solidarity march.

https://gigi.noblogs.org/post/2025/01/28/blackness-and-the-canadian-justice-system-an-unexpected-illustration/

Tl;dr After being doused in white paint by a white man (an act I documented), I was repeatedly ignored when seeking to report it—despite very visibly being covered in paint and possessing video proof.

(Quick acknowledgement that I WOULDN'T HAVE EVEN BOTHERED HAD THEY NOT ARRESTED TWO WRONG PEOPLE and I needed to get that corrected.)

Cops dismissed my attempts to file a report at the station claiming to be "too busy," yet they had managed to act swiftly on the white perpetrator's claim against unrelated people, including an Indigenous youth.

Only after viral social media pressure and attention did police arrest the assailant for public mischief.

It was also not counted among the hate incidents of 2023 because that classification relies on police discretion in report-writing, and they frequently choose to omit racial dynamics in order to further punish the victim.

Blackness renders us "invisible" to the system, unless we're being perceived as threatening.

The unwritten reality is that "help" is just not coming for Black or Indigenous victims, especially for "hate crimes".

#racism #SystemicRacism #policeDontKeepUsSafe #policeDontPreventCrime #FuckThePolice

Heads up.
Another in my excessively long rants, this time about weaponizing "Reported" incidents without considering WHO reports.

____

Toronto Police Service (TPS) has finally decided to get off their asses and investigate a racist incident from over a month ago.

https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/news-releases/65303/

This happened to someone I know, and I have been part of the team helping her navigate dealing with the cops since.

She was walking through The PATH, like thousands of other people do every single day, when a random racist asshole spit on her then started verbally abusing her.

First, she tried to get a screenshot of the footage showing the perpetrator's face from the security office, but they told her that they would only release footage to the police.

So after much discussion, the desire to get the images to inform other Black people in the area that this guy is out there meant that she needed to file the police report.

It only took a couple of days for the police to get the footage. We know this because they TOLD her they had it, but somehow, it took OVER A MONTH to get these stills to the public — and they would not give them to her directly.

Good luck finding the witnesses at this point, and having their recollections of the event go unchallenged in court, should it get there. 🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾

https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/2026/02/26/police-search-for-man-who-allegedly-hurled-anti-black-slurs-spat-at-someone-in-torontos-path-network

This is Secondary Victimization, and TPS does it ALL THE TIME.

I don't want to say that the officer in charge (OinC) this particular case dragged his feet intentionally, but sure FEELS like it's a practice of TPS to side with the racists.

• My Lazy Ass.
I've been dancing around getting into this topic for literally years, and I guess it's time. Most recently, it was the three day old incident referenced here:

"We have literally taken up warning marginalized people not to go into 52 during his shifts, because he is such an abusive dick. I just did this again 3 days ago."
https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/115935207575196398

Here we go.

••••••••••••••••••••
"Hate Crime" Statistics:
Disparities in Reporting Ease
and Unseen Barriers Skew Public
Perception of Who is Being Targeted.
••••••••••••••••••••

Black people in Toronto face significant barriers when attempting to report hate crimes to the Toronto Police Service (TPS), leading to chronic underreporting and a conveniently distorted picture of anti-Black hate in "official statistics."

Official reports, independent inquiries, community accounts, and statistical patterns all show that the Toronto Police Service (TPS) does not provide equally accessible or responsive pathways for reporting hate incidents across all groups.

[I would like you to note that the above incident where the TPS put out a call for witnesses HAPPENED WELL OVER A MONTH AGO. ]

While TPS maintains general reporting mechanisms and acknowledges underreporting as a "broad issue," systemic barriers—particularly for Black communities—create those disparities in ease of reporting, classification, responsiveness, and outcomes especially when compared to some other groups (e.g., Jewish communities).

It's not a coincidence that they align with the biases of the cops themselves.

• The Stats.
Official TPS data for 2024 (the the most recent information available) shows 76 reported hate crimes motivated by anti-Black bias, ranking third behind anti-Jewish (177) and anti-2SLGBTQ+ (79) incidents.

Do you sincerely believe that only 76 black people in Toronto were accosted for racial reasons, whether verbally or physically, in the entire year of 2024? Consider that Toronto has more than twice as many Black people as Jewish people.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has documented systemic racial discrimination, racial profiling, and anti-Black bias in TPS practices, including in use of force, stops, searches, and charging decisions. This fosters deep mistrust: many Black individuals perceive police as unresponsive or hostile to their victimization, leading to reluctance to report.

Victims may fear escalation, secondary victimization, or that their reports will be dismissed or mishandled, especially given historical patterns where police have ignored or downplayed anti-Black incidents while prioritizing others.

If you need further evidence of police bias in dealing with Black victims of hate crimes, check out the #paintgate hashtag here on Mastodon.

Or I can point you to my January 2025 blog post, which delineates my personal experience following the incident at a August 2023 solidarity march.

https://gigi.noblogs.org/post/2025/01/28/blackness-and-the-canadian-justice-system-an-unexpected-illustration/

Tl;dr After being doused in white paint by a white man (an act I documented), I was repeatedly ignored when seeking to report it—despite very visibly being covered in paint and possessing video proof.

(Quick acknowledgement that I WOULDN'T HAVE EVEN BOTHERED HAD THEY NOT ARRESTED TWO WRONG PEOPLE and I needed to get that corrected.)

Cops dismissed my attempts to file a report at the station claiming to be "too busy," yet they had managed to act swiftly on the white perpetrator's claim against unrelated people, including an Indigenous youth.

Only after viral social media pressure and attention did police arrest the assailant for public mischief.

It was also not counted among the hate incidents of 2023 because that classification relies on police discretion in report-writing, and they frequently choose to omit racial dynamics in order to further punish the victim.

Blackness renders us "invisible" to the system, unless we're being perceived as threatening.

The unwritten reality is that "help" is just not coming for Black or Indigenous victims, especially for "hate crimes".

#racism #SystemicRacism #policeDontKeepUsSafe #policeDontPreventCrime #FuckThePolice

Heads up.
Another in my excessively long rants, this time about weaponizing "Reported" incidents without considering WHO reports.

____

Toronto Police Service (TPS) has finally decided to get off their asses and investigate a racist incident from over a month ago.

https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/news-releases/65303/

This happened to someone I know, and I have been part of the team helping her navigate dealing with the cops since.

She was walking through The PATH, like thousands of other people do every single day, when a random racist asshole spit on her then started verbally abusing her.

First, she tried to get a screenshot of the footage showing the perpetrator's face from the security office, but they told her that they would only release footage to the police.

So after much discussion, the desire to get the images to inform other Black people in the area that this guy is out there meant that she needed to file the police report.

It only took a couple of days for the police to get the footage. We know this because they TOLD her they had it, but somehow, it took OVER A MONTH to get these stills to the public — and they would not give them to her directly.

Good luck finding the witnesses at this point, and having their recollections of the event go unchallenged in court, should it get there. 🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾

https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/2026/02/26/police-search-for-man-who-allegedly-hurled-anti-black-slurs-spat-at-someone-in-torontos-path-network

This is Secondary Victimization, and TPS does it ALL THE TIME.

I don't want to say that the officer in charge (OinC) this particular case dragged his feet intentionally, but sure FEELS like it's a practice of TPS to side with the racists.

• My Lazy Ass.
I've been dancing around getting into this topic for literally years, and I guess it's time. Most recently, it was the three day old incident referenced here:

"We have literally taken up warning marginalized people not to go into 52 during his shifts, because he is such an abusive dick. I just did this again 3 days ago."
https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/115935207575196398

Here we go.

••••••••••••••••••••
"Hate Crime" Statistics:
Disparities in Reporting Ease
and Unseen Barriers Skew Public
Perception of Who is Being Targeted.
••••••••••••••••••••

Black people in Toronto face significant barriers when attempting to report hate crimes to the Toronto Police Service (TPS), leading to chronic underreporting and a conveniently distorted picture of anti-Black hate in "official statistics."

Official reports, independent inquiries, community accounts, and statistical patterns all show that the Toronto Police Service (TPS) does not provide equally accessible or responsive pathways for reporting hate incidents across all groups.

[I would like you to note that the above incident where the TPS put out a call for witnesses HAPPENED WELL OVER A MONTH AGO. ]

While TPS maintains general reporting mechanisms and acknowledges underreporting as a "broad issue," systemic barriers—particularly for Black communities—create those disparities in ease of reporting, classification, responsiveness, and outcomes especially when compared to some other groups (e.g., Jewish communities).

It's not a coincidence that they align with the biases of the cops themselves.

• The Stats.
Official TPS data for 2024 (the the most recent information available) shows 76 reported hate crimes motivated by anti-Black bias, ranking third behind anti-Jewish (177) and anti-2SLGBTQ+ (79) incidents.

Do you sincerely believe that only 76 black people in Toronto were accosted for racial reasons, whether verbally or physically, in the entire year of 2024? Consider that Toronto has more than twice as many Black people as Jewish people.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has documented systemic racial discrimination, racial profiling, and anti-Black bias in TPS practices, including in use of force, stops, searches, and charging decisions. This fosters deep mistrust: many Black individuals perceive police as unresponsive or hostile to their victimization, leading to reluctance to report.

Victims may fear escalation, secondary victimization, or that their reports will be dismissed or mishandled, especially given historical patterns where police have ignored or downplayed anti-Black incidents while prioritizing others.

If you need further evidence of police bias in dealing with Black victims of hate crimes, check out the #paintgate hashtag here on Mastodon.

Or I can point you to my January 2025 blog post, which delineates my personal experience following the incident at a August 2023 solidarity march.

https://gigi.noblogs.org/post/2025/01/28/blackness-and-the-canadian-justice-system-an-unexpected-illustration/

Tl;dr After being doused in white paint by a white man (an act I documented), I was repeatedly ignored when seeking to report it—despite very visibly being covered in paint and possessing video proof.

(Quick acknowledgement that I WOULDN'T HAVE EVEN BOTHERED HAD THEY NOT ARRESTED TWO WRONG PEOPLE and I needed to get that corrected.)

Cops dismissed my attempts to file a report at the station claiming to be "too busy," yet they had managed to act swiftly on the white perpetrator's claim against unrelated people, including an Indigenous youth.

Only after viral social media pressure and attention did police arrest the assailant for public mischief.

It was also not counted among the hate incidents of 2023 because that classification relies on police discretion in report-writing, and they frequently choose to omit racial dynamics in order to further punish the victim.

Blackness renders us "invisible" to the system, unless we're being perceived as threatening.

The unwritten reality is that "help" is just not coming for Black or Indigenous victims, especially for "hate crimes".

#racism #SystemicRacism #policeDontKeepUsSafe #policeDontPreventCrime #FuckThePolice

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@OrangeHats/116058675014070851

I feel like I should give a "potty mouth" warning for those who don't know me.

I have a potty mouth at the best of times, but talking about copfuckery exacerbates it.

And the episode starts with me explaining the incident you can find using the #paintgate hashtag.

CBC didn't air my points about how two years ago the Ontario Human Rights Commission found that there is anti-Black racism at EVERY LEVEL OF INTERACTION with the TPS, and how defending neoNazis like Gus Stefanis and Andrew Benson wasn't a good look for them in light of that.

But you bet your ass I'm going to find a taker for this.

And I have the perfect incident to illustrate it.

#Paintgate

#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish

Lorrrrrrdt.
Remember when a racist asshole threw paint at me, and then lied to the cops which got two unrelated people arrested, so instead of walking away scott-free because I fucking hate cops and wouldn't have reported it, he made me get hundreds of people to call 55 Division and get him charged with lying to the fucking cop so that we could get the charges against the other two people, one of whom was an Indigenous youth, dropped?

Remember that?
No? Check the #PaintGate hashtag for a recap.

Well now my massively disordered-thinking stalker Caryma Sa'd has decided to claim that "eye witnesses" (undoubtedly just the perpetrator himself since she felt the need to befriend him and pretend for 5 minutes that she was going to rep him in court) SAW ME POUR PAINT ON MYSELF because SHE THINKS that I couldn't possibly have had that particular paint splatter pattern from him throwing paint at me.

I wish I was making that up.
Malignant narcissists will go to unfuckingbelievable lengths to avoid the obvious conclusion that no one likes them because of their own behavior.

This little hamster maze is just one example of her disordered thinking.

#CarymaNgo #CreepySpouseInDaHouse #AdamLeeWasserman #NarcissistLogic #RealityChallenged #stalker

⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️

I'm about to drop a whole bunch of legal and other activist info (also a rehash of #paintgate) in advance of tomorrow's action.

Pardon me.

Just left 10 Armoury re: the on-going hilarity of having had paint thrown at me.

We're just under a month shy of a year at this point.

Expect an article on the many joys of our "justice system" shortly.

#paintgate

@CrypticCatfist

Oh you know the situation.
It's the same one from last summer.

Today's racist-assed Karen (receptionist at the Crown) erroneously believed she has all the power and I have none. Except I have been fighting the system, DESPITE BEING THE VICTIM, from minute one.

Remember these assholes?
Remember the case officer who threatened me TWICE because he was embarrassed about not doing the barest fucking minimum?

Well this whole fucking story is up for grabs now, recordings and all.

#Paintgate

One day I'm going to write a book about being an abolitionist navigating our fucking justice system.

Or maybe just a thread about the hilarity of having to force the cops to do their job, which shouldn't exist in the fucking first place, and how a pissy "officer in charge" low-key threatened me TWICE during his initial call — which OF FUCKING COURSE I RECORDED, NUMBNUTS, and it's in several safe places, with a variety of people, oh hey! maybe I should play that for the Crown — then apparently hasn't been doing that job (that shouldn't exist) in keeping me apprised. Shocker.

If he was angry about the last round of phone calls, I don't think he will enjoy the next round very much at all. A 5 minute conversation with me could have saved so much time and money, but no, cops gotta cop. And cops gotta go.

I can't even imagine what navigating the shit show would be like for somebody whose end goal wasn't transformative justice.

#VagueToot #PaintGate

@Cherrycola

Seriously.
Just say you're happy his racist ass threw paint at me and be done with it.

You're not fooling anyone.
#PaintGate

2/🧵

We all know WHO the Emergency Act was going to be used on if this stood. Let's look at how Canada's various hate legislations are actually implemented to see where this shit was headed.

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Background
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Canadian hate laws are:

• advocating genocide (s. 318(1)),
• public incitement of hatred (s. 319(1)), • wilful promotion of hatred (s. 319(2)),
• wilful promotion of antisemitism (s. 319(2.1)), and
• mischief relating to religious property, education institutions, etc. (s. 430(4.1))

Additionally, other crimes can be deemed "hate motivated," which means that during sentencing heavier penalties will be assessed.

The fact that none of the ACTUAL hate laws on the books speak to attacking people DIRECTLY, results in charges against the Indigo Eleven being considered "hate motivated" for throwing paint at a building, while throwing paint at me, a living, breathing human being is abso-fucking-lutely fine¹, apparently.

#FuckThePolice #DefundDisarmDismantle #LawFare
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¹ Ironically, I wouldn't even have spoken to the cops about the paint shitshow had he not used his whiteness to cause two other people to be arrested while not mentioning his role in things.

I still don't think jail is going to solve a damned thing, but other than one call from the cops, the point of which seems to have been to subtly threaten me, I have had zero interaction with this process, so 🤷🏾‍♀️

Whole annoying backstory can be traced by following the #PaintGate hashtag.

5/🧵

Gonna say it again:

Why'm 👏🏾 I 👏🏾

gonna 👏🏾 report 👏🏾 hate 👏🏾 crimes 👏🏾

to👏🏾 the 👏🏾 PEOPLE 👏🏾

COMMITTING👏🏾 HATE👏🏾 CRIMES? 👏🏾

#FuckThePolice #PaintGate

4/🧵

❝Antisemitism continues to account for more REPORTED hate crimes than any other category.❞

I wonder when ANYONE will be ready for the conversation about
WHO REPORTS HATE CRIMES¹.

For some of us, it's just a fucking fact of existing.

Also:
Cops are literally half the problem.

It hasn't even been a month since this report came out:

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/gaps-in-toronto-police-policies-have-contributed-to-systemic-anti-black-racism-ohrc-report-1.6687208

Why'm I gonna report hate crimes to the PEOPLE COMMITTING HATE CRIMES ON THE DAILY?

#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime
#LivingWhileBlack

Edit: adding #PaintGate for aggregation purposes.
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¹ https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/111627513384810676

I need to repost that second photo on its own because I need you to appreciate just how fucking invisible I am to these cops.

Right in front of them is a dark-skinned woman — WEARING ALL BLACK CLOTHING — covered from head to toe in white paint.

MAN that cement is fascinating.

I wonder what they thought would happen if they made eye contact. Probably lots of paperwork.
#PaintGate

Been seeing a LOT of data from TPS on the rise of hate crimes and who is experiencing them.

One of the factors that is continually overlooked is: WHO is more likely to report them.

I reported one in 2016, and only because it reached the level that several people insisted that it needed to be reported. Mostly, I chalk shit up to Just Another Asshole and move on.

Even this past summer when I had white paint thrown at me, I wasn't going to bother, and frankly, the cops I was surrounded by weren't going to ask — or even make eye contact lest report-writing ensue — so... until they arrested the wrong people, this was absolutely not going on the books.

As it stands, "hate" is not among the charges.

Do you know who DOES have hate charges pending? NINE of the eleven people arrested for postering and painting an inanimate object.

Because rich PALE people are extraordinarily comfortable having long chats with cops and insisting that they feel personally threatened and that maybe some doors need to be kicked in at 5am to appease that fear.

Darker people just fear or loathe the cops.

#Indigo11 #FuckThePolice #FuckRacism #LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics #FreePalestine

Edit: adding #PaintGate for aggregation purposes.

@TonyYVCE

I think he means here

Where he says, on camera, he came voluntarily.

She's just gonna get him in more trouble than otherwise.

#PaintGate

Huh.
Ponder for a moment, if you will, the mind that looks at this photo, and because she hates me SO MUCH, tries to figure out how *I* must be responsible for some random stranger coming up to me at an action and covering me in white paint. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Then seeks out THE PERSON WHO THREW THE PAINT, at his preliminary court date, to interview him, trying to get the dirt.

AND THEN endangers and attempts to criminalize UNHOUSED INDIGENOUS WOMEN with the paint-thrower's tale, completely neglecting to mention that I have *confirmed* that police have seen the footage in question.

And that is the broken mind that is #CarymaNgo

And that's not even bringing up the current drama that is her taunting her suicidal(?) ex(?) Nazi partner in the HateGate nonsense, or her racist flunkies (not actually a portmanteau of "flying monkeys", but holy shit it works) hoping against hope that the Black woman they hate might, what? go to jail for having had paint thrown at her? Weirdos.

🍿
#PaintGate

@SocialistStan

My stalker, #CarymaNgo is trying to figure out how she can profit from my getting paint thrown on me at a #SearchtheLandFills action she was nowhere near.

Ot at the very least, figure out how she can strike at her enemies.

But what she's going to do is end up getting the guy a much worse sentence by coercing him to say shit that counters what we have on footage, when he's ALREADY got a charge for making a false report.

I'm going to tag all the relevant posts
#PaintGate (yes, mocking a certain other hashtag) but you can start here if you are interested

Surely THIS time she will be able to get revenge against me for *checks notes*

➡️ being incessantly boring and yet able to get more social media attention than she EVER gets — when it's absolutely necessary. ⬅️

Seriously, I came out of a long call to find like 20 people warning me about this (see attached).

I hope he reads her reviews before taking her on as a lawyer! 🍿😄

#CarymaNgo #CreepySpouseInDaHouse #PaintGate

Oh hey! She forgot the #HateGate hashtag!

GUESS WHO'S WILLINGLY SETTING HIMSELF UP TO BE THE NEXT Mark/Tammy/Karen/Elisa/Donald!
(⇡⇡See prev toot in thread ⇡⇡)

Dude who threw paint at me!!

Totally sure this will work out differently for him though.

#PaintGate
(Edit: Adding hashtag to pull the parts together.)

Oh hey!
Guess who has a first appearance tomorrow in court for getting friends of mine arrested?

Yeah, you heard me. Buddy would absolutely have walked from throwing paint on me, because: ABOLITIONIST, but then he told police that he was the VICTIM, forcing us ALL to make the cops do their fucking jobs and get to the root of how that actually went down.

Guess I'm going to have some updates in the coming days.

Background:
https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/110936494097884412

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime
#PaintGate
(Edit: Adding hashtag to pull the parts together.)

Well, this certainly puts into perspective the thinly-veiled cop threats I received last week.

❝
Mary’s family accuse Avon and Somerset police of bullying and threatening them over the last three years in an effort to discourage them from speaking to the press.

Senior police, they say, warned them that if the public were to become aware of the 19-year relationship the revelation could spark riots. However, Mary’s family now believe this and other warnings were used to co-opt them into a “cover-up” of the scandal.
❞

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/06/revealed-undercover-uk-police-officer-deceived-woman-relationship

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #FTP

(I apologize in advance for any duplicates or even triplicates of this post.)

#PaintGate
(Edit: Adding hashtag to pull the parts together.)

Traffic Services (🤷🏾‍♀️) took to TikTok, a major source of calls.

Translation:
PLEASE STOP CALLING US.

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

#PaintGate
(Edit: Adding hashtag to pull the parts together.)

O. M. G.
I love you all so much.

And I fully know that it is the most fucked up thing in the universe that I, an abolitionist, am thanking you for making the police do their fucking job.

I cannot say why this is important because of my role at MDC, but this is one of those situations where one arrest, the proper arrest, means correcting two wrong arrests.

If this asshole hadn't tried to escalate what HE HIMSELF had done, by deploying THE COPS, there's no way in hell I would even have gone to the police station, even covered in paint.

More momentarily.

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #WhoKeepsUsSafe

#PaintGate
(Edit: Adding hashtag to pull the parts together.)

Meet Josef Picken.
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He threw white paint all over me, then claimed he was assaulted.

VIDEO:
https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/110918176093706754

📢📢📢
Edited to add:
Please stop calling 55 Division.

He has been arrested with your help.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/08/22/toronto-can-of-paint-assault/

The desk Sergeant is almost weeping.

He says it's really out of their hands.
I sort of believe him.
📢📢📢

55 division took his word for it and didn't even take a report on what he did. Maybe they would like to talk to some other people instead of me.

Here are some phone numbers:

Contact 55 Division
24 hours/day, 7 days/week
416-808-5500

Superintendent Kim O'Toole
Unit Commander
416-808-5514

Inspector Michael Hayles
2nd in Command
416-808-5500

Staff Sergeant Murray Barnes
Neighbourhood Officer Unit Manager
416-808-5437

https://www.tps.ca/my-neighbourhood/55-division/

#IAlreadyDidntLikeCops
#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundThePolice

(Edited because it's "Picken" singular.)
#PaintGate
(Edit 2: Adding hashtag to pull the parts together.)

Angry white guys are a trip.

Imagine coming to an Indigenous action, picking the lone Black person and throwing a can of white paint on her.

Edited to add:
He has been arrested.
https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/110934200999967739

#PaintGate
(Edit Oct 3: Adding a hashtag to pull the parts together; there have been a bunch of updates, including a first appearance in court today that has been put off until the 31st of October.)