G20 Inquiry Demands on Facebook

For those who might be unaware, late last June a Facebook group was created calling for an inquiry into the G20 abuses. Here is a Toronto Sun article from last July discussing it:

Call for G20 inquiry grows on Facebook
By TOM GODFREY, TORONTO SUN
Last Updated: July 9, 2010 4:45pm
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Almost 60,000 people have taken to Facebook to demand a full public inquiry into Toronto police action at the G20 Summit last month.

A group called Canadians Demanding a Public Inquiry into Toronto G20 created the Facebook page June 27, on the last day of the Summit.

The group also created an online petition calling for Chief Bill Blair to “be removed from his post.”

Blair this week said he won’t be stepping down and ordered a review of his officers’ involvement in the G20. The review upset some people who wanted public input.

A police spokesman said Friday the service has no comment.

Creators of the page are hoping an inquiry will answer questions from the public.

“It’s time for the healing process to start,” said a page organizer. “Which is why we’re asking for an inquiry to provide complete transparency. Why did things unravel like they did.”

Facebook users were told an inquiry should be supported by Ottawa and establish the “facts and causes of an event or issue, and then to make recommendations to the government.”

One Facebook user, named “Green,” said he has been in fear of cops since the G20.

“I now live in fear that I am on some type of watch list,” Green wrote. “ I am scared that my house will be raided or that charges will still be laid, even though all I did was exercise my rights.”

He said his “view of Canada as a free state have been completely smashed. “

Facebook user Jeremy called for all cameras and phones taken from protestors by police be returned to their owners without film evidence being destroyed.

“The police can destroy any footage they like,” Jeremy said. “No matter how incriminating, so that if ever a public inquiry is made, there will be no hard evidence.”

Another user said he supports Toronto cops who do their jobs.

“I support the police force that acts in a true and just way,” the man said. “I do not support those who were in Toronto during the G8/G20 Summits.”

Claudia Calabro, of the Toronto Community Mobilization Network, said her group is pushing for a full and open inquiry.

“There has to be an independent inquiry to be funded by the government,” Calabro said. “It has to be ordered at the federal level.”