#policedontkeepussafe — Public Fediverse posts

When you're tabling at an event and both the cops and your stalker want in desperately.

#AdamLeeWasserman #CreepySpouseInDaHouse

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I don't always accessorize, but when I do...

#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #LegalObservers

Today's theme:

Which of you who work forces, are the ones who burn crosses?

#Toronto #TorontoActions #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #FuckThePolice

I would really prefer to spend my day making more squash slings for the pumpkins and spaghetti squash that have annoyingly decided to climb the bean trellises, even though they produce 3lb+ fruits.

But no.
A bunch of fucking Nazis have decided they need to march through the city, and Toronto Police Service feels the need to facilitate that. 🤨

Nazis in uniform and out.

#SomeOfThoseWhoWorkForces

#gardening #ContainerGardening #GrowYourOwn #GigiGarden #Toronto #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

Fun reminder that the RCMP was built for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

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The RCMP can apply the lessons it learned at an Israeli military seminar last year to “Canadian law enforcement contexts,” according to a briefing document written by Canada’s defence attaché in Israel.

The international seminar focused on the “lessons learned” from Israel’s war on Gaza, which is almost universally recognized as a genocidal campaign among leading human rights organizations and by a United Nations independent commission.

The document, obtained by The Maple via an access to information request, states that four RCMP officers who attended the seminar in Tel Aviv last November learned “lessons on intelligence fusion, rapid response, and civilian protection [that] can be adapted to Canadian law enforcement contexts.”
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https://www.readthemaple.com/rcmp-can-apply-israels-gaza-tactics-to-canadian-policing-briefing/

#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #Canada #canpoli

I've got a special surprise for TPS.

So much glee.

#DataIsEverything

#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish

Man.
Cops get huffy when you ask them if they're gonna give you a carding receipt when they talk to you unsolicitedly.

Wait until I start asking them if they want some of my hair for their trophy collection. 😇

https://montrealgazette.com/news/montreal-police-face-major-racism-probe-after-officers-allegedly-kept-hair-as-trophies/

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The officers under scrutiny are said to be predominantly young male constables with three to four years of experience.

Investigators are examining claims that Black people and individuals of Arab origin were disproportionately targeted in the district’s diverse neighbourhoods. Some officers are alleged to have made racist remarks, according to witness testimony gathered during the probe.

Members of the team also allegedly collected pieces of locs (also called dreadlocks) — cut from apprehended men — and kept the hair as trophies, according to reports by La Presse and Radio-Canada.

Dagher declined to confirm or deny the latter allegation Friday night, but added that the hair cutting is part of the investigation and therefore could not be commented on at this time.

“The SPVM reiterates that racism, discrimination or any other unacceptable behaviour is not tolerated within the organization,” Dagher said.
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#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #ACAB

Last night I was made to remove the line about cops brainstorming additional charges to make themselves look better about fucking up (ALL charges were dropped eventually) from a report, right about the time cops were brainstorming charges for a 12 yr old they shot at, multiple times judging by the plethora of tiny cones marking the shell casings.

1. Thank fucking DOG cops are shit shots or there might be three dead 12-year-olds right now.

2. The practice of standing in FRONT of a vehicle while firing at it is the MOST INANE FUCKING THING ever to have originated in watching too much television.

3. Cops ABSOLUTELY DO OVERCHARGE AND JUST MAKE SHIT UP when they know they're in the wrong, in order to deflect and make it look like they've done something impressive. We really have to look at cases where charges get dropped or reduced through that lens, ALWAYS.

4. Since there really is no such thing as accountability for police, I have developed a petty and omnipresent urge to see them do more paperwork and be embarrassed by the actual wrong that they do.

I'm going to start calling for public inquiries into everything. I don't actually think the fucking inquiries are going to do a fucking thing except make paperwork and embarrass them.

Much like I don't think the SIU investigations do anything except make paperwork and embarrass them, but it is the tool I have and it is the tool I'm going to use.

4. I'm endlessly impressed by the size of my information and rumour network at this point. You'll see why shortly.

#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #Toronto

Man.

At what age do you stop having to be up at 2am writing reports to turn in for the next day?

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

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Today in #FuckThePolice

Turns out that not only am I NOT EVEN REMOTELY associated with the cop being killed a couple of days ago, it's probably the fucking cops themselves tied to shootings at the US Consulate (and probably synagogues).

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Network linked to GFL attacks: sources
According to a source close to the investigation into the gun-for-hire network, Bennett is also believed to be connected to a string of recent attacks on GFL, the waste-management firm that controls much of Toronto’s garbage and recycling collection. The company has been at the centre of a violent and confusing saga for more than two years, with a handful of shootings targeting the homes of top executives, as well as offices and other facilities. Most recently, GFL was targeted in roughly a half a dozen attacks over the course of a few weeks in March.

The source, whom the Star agreed not to name because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the case, said police believe the gun-for-hire network was responsible for the GFL attacks, assigning a team of teenagers to carry out shootings.

{{ snip }}

The probe’s dragnet has spanned a number of cases related to ongoing violence in the GTA’s long-fraught towing industry, said a government official with knowledge of a wider investigation into GTA guns-for-hire, whom the Star agreed not to name because they are not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

Over recent years, the GTA saw a significant spike in violence related to the towing industry, including shootings, extortions, arson and at least two homicides. In 2024, Toronto police linked 63 firearm discharges to the sector, accounting for almost 13 per cent of shootings in the city that year. Police tell the Star that figure dropped slightly in 2025, to just under seven per cent.
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*cough*Project South*cough*

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¹ https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/116733308293807194

#ProjectSouth #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #FuckThePolice #Toronto #CarymaSad

Yesterday in #FuckThePolice

TPS, pissed about the Bosnians' pro-Palestinian chanting do whatever tf this is.

CW: Extreme cop violence.

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #Toronto #FIFA #FuckFIFA

Related: I find it very difficult to imagine that I can possibly cause more anti-police sentiment than the fucking TPS.

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Sukhram, himself a drug squad officer, pleaded guilty in June to possession of cocaine and methamphetamine, breach of trust and obstructing justice.

According to two separate agreed statements of facts, Sukhram took part in carrying out a search warrant at the apartment of an alleged drug dealer on Jarvis Street in Toronto on July 2, 2024.

Sukhram and six other officers were involved in the operation. The alleged dealer had been arrested earlier that day after selling drugs to police.

Various quantities of GHB, ecstasy, crystal meth, cocaine, methamphetamine tablets, Xanax, Adderall Pink and ketamine were seized from a safe in the living room.

The officers returned to the police's drug squad building and worked overtime to process the drugs. Sukhram left at about 1:25 a.m. in plainclothes with a black backpack.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-police-officer-sentenced-drug-charges-9.7232669

#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish

Well good.
Now I can play D&D again.

(Tldr; The Nazis have realized that parading on Yonge Street was not a good idea.)

#Toronto #FuckNazis #FuckFascism #FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #FashWatchCanada

UPDATE! The motherfuckers have cancelled. Most excellent.
📢 📣 📢 📣 📢

Yo! #Toronto!

There's another #NaziRally this Sunday, on Yonge Street, no less.

Do you know the little parkette between Gerrard and Carlton? The one with the archway? That's the one.

Sunday. 2 pm.
White Lives Matter, Paul Fromm, Gus Stefanis.

This is what happens when you let the cops help them march through the streets: they get emboldened.

I'm going to need you to get off your ass and show up this time.

#FuckNazis #FuckFascism #FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #TorontoActions

7 cops.
2 × 1 hour
5 × 1.5 hours

Standing around in the sun because too many melanated people are gathering, talking about the harms police cause.

To be clear, there are at least 9 speccons from Queen's Park here lest the darkies get rowdy, but TPS wants theirs, too.

Shitlibs! If you ever wonder why your wait times are so high, this is why.

#PoliceWasteResources #Toronto #ThisIsWhyWeCantHaveNiceThings

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #FuckThePolice

You didn't think they were going to let them hold a press conference on policing free schools without police intimidation, did you?

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #Toronto #FuckThePolice

And airport duty again.
Been a while since I've been on this duty, and fortunately, it's relatively rare.

Last night cops hassled the flotilla returnee. Tonight, who knows.

#LOLife #Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

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It was a long day yesterday.
(It's going to be another long day today, but at least I get some gardening time in before the shit show.)

Yesterday's event was a lovely part of the AAPI Heritage Month festivities, that had drumming and lion dancing, plus I got a knot in my upper back lessened.

But also the cops briefly turned up, justifying our presence.

It is amazing to me that Toronto Police Service has yet to figure out that we are asked to be present at an ever-widening array of events, precisely because someone is anticipating police malfeasance.

A certain someone has been saying that our refusal to pretend to be neutral means that we shouldn't be calling ourselves "legal observers", because there is an air of neutrality in the name.

I say that is an illusion.
Legal observers are requested specifically to watch and document POLICE malfeasance. Even the NLG with its policy of not chanting or participating in protests, are not there to document what the protestors do.

We at Orange Hats take the policy that as long as the police are not "malfeasing", we are free to do anything up to, but not including, civil disobedience while wearing the hat. (We can always take the hat off.)

Calling cops "fascist motherfuckers" is not civil disobedience. I'm sure they would love to arrest me for that, yet it's not illegal. Sucks being them.

Anyway, as anticipated, a clusterfuck of cops turned up to intimidate attendees at the Asian Massage Festival yesterday, an event put on by a community heavily over-policed, and so we had been asked to be present.

I (being me) had a "Tell Cersei" moment and walked down the stairs to a point where they could see me to snap a photo, which is when they noticed four other Orange Hats peering over the railing collecting their badge numbers. 😁

On their way out the door (having been invited to get the fuck out by facilities management) one of our favourites rambled some nonsense about OH being "anti-cop disruptors" and that people shouldn't want to be associated with us.

In that we *disrupted* their plans to force their way in and threaten people, I guess maybe we are. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Somehow, I don't think cops would like it better if we were called Police Malfeasance Observers and Documenters + Legal Support, which is technically what we are.

Also they should stop getting their ✌🏾"intel"✌🏾 from Caryma, and I would probably stop mockingly asking them if they "realize that intel is short for intelligence," and they should probably stop looking to a person who is fatally allergic to the concept for theirs.

#Toronto #TorontoActions #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #FuckThePolice

Before Gigi. After Gigi.
Cops Begone(tm).

#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish

I guess I'm a ✌🏾"celebrity"✌🏾 now.
Fucking weirdos.

Anyway, at the action by Rob Oliphant, MP's office with a group demanding he get off his ass and help a constituent kidnapped by Israel.

#AdamLeeWasserman #CreepySpouseInDaHouse #CreepySpouseInDaBigHouse #SnMitch

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Today in #FuckThePolice

3 TPS cops arrested in Spain for sexual assault and related activities.

https://www.europapress.es/catalunya/noticia-detienen-policias-canadienses-agresion-sexual-prostituta-taxi-barcelona-20260516113533.html

Named in Canadian media:

• Evan Glennie
• Rich Rand
• Caglar Yigit

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/three-off-duty-toronto-cops-charged-in-barcelona-tps/

They're apparently going to be suspended when they return, no word on whether that is with or without pay.

And suddenly the TPA has nothing to say.

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #Toronto

It's a hell of a thing that people need to request legal observers for a May Day picnic.

The cops are busy defending Patriots Square 🚻.

#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe
#Toronto #TorontoActions #TorontoActivists

I swear, the cops let instigators harass protests so they can justify their presence, and THEN pen them to pretend like they're doing something productive.

#TorontoActions #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #AdamLeeWasserman #CreepySpouseInDaHouse #CreepySpouseInDaBigHouse

Goodness!
They correctly reported them as belonging to the counter-protestor group.

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During one incident, it’s alleged a man participating in the counter-demonstration confronted a participant in the Al-Quds demonstration who was holding a stick with an Islamic Republic of Iran flag attached.

Police say the accused began swinging his arms and fists at the victim, breaking the stick and causing pieces of it to strike the victim in the head.

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Police allege that in a second incident, another man participating in the counter-demonstration followed a participant who was wearing an Islamic Republic of Iran flag on their back.

Investigators say the accused “spat on the victim and ripped the flag off their back” before returning to the crowd.
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https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/two-men-facing-charges-after-incidents-at-torontos-al-quds-day-demonstration/

Given how many cops were there yesterday, I think we can adequately close the book on whether cops prevent anything from happening.

#Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime

Submissions happening for the injunction against today's Jerusalem/Al Quds Day rally.

It's also the day before the International Day Against Police Brutality.

I'm kind of hoping TPS isn't going to give us a bunch more examples for our socials and actual media.

We already have enough.

#Toronto #TorontoActions #FreePalestine #GenocideIsNotDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #FuckThePolice

Great turnout for the OSAP cuts protest.

Popped in for a bit to check in (they'll be fine; there's lots of media, lots of students).

Now on my way to participate in a panel on policing, mental health, and students.

#Toronto #TorontoActions #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

A really solid article about the state of Toronto protest policing.

It leverages the injury stats that we collect as Orange Hats, but it goes well beyond that.

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Policing institutions are highly organized, funded, and ideologically mobilized militant forces that serve the capitalist-colonial global paradigm — nothing they do is (or can be) done in an apolitical vacuum. For that reason, the surrounding social-political context helps us assess the material underpinnings of why the state behaves violently toward certain groups, but not others, even if they’re all racialized.

The above Orange Hats report came just a few days before something seemingly unrelated happened. The official TPS Instagram account posted a now-viral reel in support of the United States-Israeli-backed Pahlavi regime change movement on February 2nd, and noted how there were “zero incidents” at a protest the day before.

The full caption of the Toronto Police reel that has amassed 4.3 million views and 200,000+ likes reads as such:

150,000 demonstrators and
zero incidents.

Thanks to the meticulous
planning, effective on‑the‑ground
work, and professionalism of
our members and specialized
units [emphasis added],
yesterday’s event in the heart
of our city remained safe and
peaceful.

When the police say there was ‘no incident’, all that usually means is no one was arrested. In a reality where fascists and neo-Nazis are protected to roam freely, while pro-Palestinian and Indigenous people get arrested after state thugs drive an unmarked car or ride horses into them, what exactly does Toronto Police claim ‘no incidents’ actually reveal?
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Read the full article:

https://praxisarchives.substack.com/p/the-true-scale-of-toronto-police

https://archive.is/I3H9P

#Toronto #TorontoActions #TorontoActivists #FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish

Going through my footage from yesterday and discovering that my resolution to swear *slightly less* at cops is not going well.

Please enjoy the dulcet tones of "Gigi dealing with a wrongful arrest*."

(I should look for footage from a decade ago to show the difference in what I was like.)

* ETA: They released him about 10 minutes later. It was just more strategic incapacitation.

#TorontoActions #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

Bubbles and Chang.
My least favourite combo.

#Toronto #TorontoActions #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #HousingForAll #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingNow

Incandescent.
The City pretended to be negotiating with the residents of the encampment at Dufferin Grove Park, only to execute one of the worst clearings yet, this morning.

Have some things to say later.
Right now it's just support mode.

#Toronto #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingForAll #HousingNow

And back in the city in time for... an encampment clearing.

Imagine making $107,000/year ripping down people's meagre shelters and stealing their few belongings. That's the lowest salary among these assholes.

Also, Kyle (in the blue, running away) would like it known that he is "uncomfortable" with people filming him as he lies to encampment residents about the likelihood of being housed, and threatening them.

And yeah, they have the public order unit chilling on standby.

#HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingForAll #HousingNow #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #WhoKeepsUsSafe

A long day of #CommunityDefence is about half over.

Encampment support with the City threatening to clear tents at Holy Trinity. Love those tactical nurses! 🖕🏾

Court support for comrades.
(Standing room only!)

Two more community actions today.

#Toronto #TorontoActions #TorontoActivists #FreePalestine #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingNow #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #WhoKeepsUsSafe

Edit: It's up to 13 now. Add Guelph.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-big-city-mayors-notwithstanding-clause-encampments-1.7370210

Mayors of Barrie, Brampton, Brantford, Cambridge, Chatham-Kent, Clarington, Oakville, Oshawa, Pickering, St. Catherines, Sudbury, and Windsor ask Ford to use the notwithstanding clause to criminalize being on house so that they can "regulate and prohibit encampments" sending residents to jail for repeated "trespass".

We are seriously going to have to start eating these motherfuckers soon.

#HousingForAll #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingNow #FuckShitlibs #FuckFascism #FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe