I pity any member of the SIU pulled over for a speeding ticket in this city.
Police Const. Glenn Weddell has been identified as the officer who allegedly slammed Dorian Barton with a riot shield and hit him with a baton during the G20, the Toronto Star has learned.
Weddell is the subject officer at the centre of a Special Investigations Unit probe, which in turn is at the heart of a public bickering match between Toronto police and the civilian agency charged with overseeing them.
Investigators have asked 11 witness officers to identify the colleague accused of beating Barton during last June’s G20 summit. Eight of them were within the immediate vicinity of Barton’s violent takedown; one of them was also the officer’s roommate during the summit, according to the SIU.
None of the officers were able to offer a positive identification, leading many critics to suggest a “blue wall of silence” was at play.
Ya think?
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Really hoping to see some action come of this; I've never been "anti-police" and have met many upstanding cops, but the Toronto Police Department's reputation has really been trashed and I have considerably less trust in them.
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