[LOUD MARCHING]
[ERIN] You put your trust in
police officers
generally I do.
[BATON'S HITTING SHIELDS]
[ERIN] Then you're standing
in the middle of the
street in Toronto
kind of wondering
"Whose going to help you?"
The people who are supposed to help us,
are the ones doing this to us.
[CROWD CHANTS] Peaceful protest!
[RADIO] Observation, you do not
want us to funnel them out,
you want to push the whole group
down to the intersection right?
[SHERVIN] It was 5 o'clock.
The leaders were leaving.
Most of them had left or were
in the course of leaving.
And then we thought OK,
it's the summer, Sunday afterno.
...let's have an ice cream.
And on our way to the ice cream,
we encountered this group of pe,
who were sitting on the interse.
We joined the protest.
[TERRA] As I walked into the inn
I wasn't  quite sure what to ex.
There were a lot of people ther,
but it was fairly quiet.
[ERIN] It was just some people g
out in the intersection basical,
that's what it seemed like to m.
[TERRA] It didn't have too muchf
an organized feel or nature to .
[SHERVIN] I think we were stande
maybe about 15 minutes
I took a few pictures and some e
from the people sitting there...
...chanting.
[CROWD CHANTS REPEATEDLY] "Let "
And then I looked back...
[TERRA] There was a consistent .
[TERRA] You could see that
beyond the people,
There were actually rows
of police officers.
At that point in time I believe
the west side of the intersectin
was blocked,
which wasn't clearly apparent wt
walked into the intersection,
because of all the people
just standing around.
[LOUD MARCHING]
We switched directions to walk h
and we saw the police officers,
coming down in droves,
like lines of them.
[LOUD YELLING] "Move!"
[MAN IN CROWD] "There's nowhere,
there's no exit."
Move!
[TERRA] I didn't have any reason
to expect
when we approached the intersec,
that there was going to be any n
we weren't going to be able
to leave the intersection.
From the instant that I saw
those cops coming down in riot r
and pounding those shields, lik,
everything changed.
The first moments were really cg
because we were asking
"Where to move to?"
[CROWD BOOS]
We couldn't move because
we were kettled in.
[LOUD MARCHING]
[TERRA] There had been no warnig
of what was happening.
There had been no invitation
to kettle ourselves closer.
There had been no asks to move ,
to get into the middle
of the intersection.
All of a sudden it just went frs
boring, sporadically organized,
group of people standing around,
to this really violent,
closing in around all of us,
with shields and screaming
and all of this force.
It just went from zero
to one hundred instantly.
[CROWD CHANTS] "Peaceful protes"
[ERIN] No, they never asked us .
people were asking all of these,
no response, nothing...
...behind the mask.
My brother was arrested,
I got my brother arrested.
He was volunteering,
along with numerous friends,
I went to law school with.
So yes I had to phone my own mor
and tell her as the emergency ct
that my brother had been arrestd
and he was actually told
he was being charged.
[ERIN] At some point, police sad
something like
you're all going to get arreste,
so you might as well just go.
[OFFICER YELLS] You're all
going to be arrested
line up here and be arrested ni.
We don't want to go in and hurt.
That was the only time anybody
spoke to us.
[SHERVIN] They were saying they
weren't going to use the
dispersing alarm,
but they were going to use it
as a means to communicate
to a large amount of people.
And at that moment I was like
"Where is that thing?
We bought this and it wasn't th"
[SHERVIN] It was note communicas
that we should leave
otherwise we would be arrested..
...or else.
[ABBY] When you start to get ino
the area where you're detaining
hundreds and hundreds of people
who are there on a public street
for a huge variety of purposes..
...some are protesting,
some are walking
some are monitoring,
some are journalists
it's going to be extremely
difficult to argue
you have individual grounds
to detain all of those people.
[OFFICER] Folks you're all beind
for conspiracy to commit mischi.
[2ND OFFICER] Come forward or we
coming forward. Come here.
[WOMAN] He was standing still.
I didn't do anything,
I'm here to protest poverty.
I don't understand why
I'm being arrested.
[SHERVIN] People were trying tok
the police officers "What's goi"
I personally didn't aks anyone
because they weren't offering
any explanation.
They were just standing there ad
also were busy arresting
individuals among the group.
Which was also eerie in a sense
because you didn't know...
...what was the criteria?
Peace.
[MUFFLED] Let go. Get your hand.
I'm tripping, I'm not resisting.
[OFF CAMERA] Film this guy, he d
injuries beforehand.
I had that before,
so I'm going to film him.
From the shield in the head?
[YELLING]
[OFF CAMERA] I don't know where
it's from, I just noticed
you were bleeding.
Yeah it's from 12375'S shield.
[YELLING]
[ABBY] Our own monitors were
arrested and detained,
for close to 24 hours
in some cases.
So individuals we knew were
not engaging in any violence,
Were not even participating
in any demonstrations,
or unlawful acts were being
arrested, taken off the streets,
and taken to the detention cent.
Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.
I'll come, I'll come, I'll come.
Whoa, Whoa,
I'll come, I'll come.
Holy [expletive]! Holy [expleti!
What the [expletive]!
[MARGARET] You throw national
security into any discussion
and you have widened the range
of tolerable behaviour.
[HEAVY RAIN]
I was at a dinner that chief Bl,
and chief Blair emphasized
I mean the big point of his tal,
be clear. He said
"The RCMP are inside the fence,
my responsibility is outside
and my number one priority
is to protect the protestors."
So that was the starting positin
on what the role was going to b.
I don't know if I've ever seen n
harder then it rained that day.
It was not a little drizzle,
it was a downpour.
[TERRA] I was wearing a tank top
and a pair of shorts
and flip-flops.
It was June and it was hot.
It was freezing and
people were not prepared.
[TERRA] Even with the umbrella
we just threw it down because
it wasn't working.
[ERIN] And then eventually we're
just like, well let's get arresd
because maybe we'll get warm.
The next day when I...
...then I felt more worried abo,
and stressed about it, for sure.
I had time to process it.
But in the moment I...
...I just kind of did it, becaue
I thought that it would
help me to get into a
different position.
[MARGARET] They would have to be
able to look at the
people that were kettled
and be able to tell that,
you had mothers,
you had kids, you had people
coming out of office buildings
that had nothing to do
with the violence.
Policing works because it
works with the consensus of peo.
It works because they are
seen to be legitimate.
We allow ourself to be policed.
Are our police held to account?
Are our politicians held to acct
for preservation of our democra?
People have a right to protest
and why isn't the government
protecting that?
Why aren't the police
protecting that?
I was actually walking home
and just standing there
so the fact that I could get ard
and have a permanent charge on d
for standing in the middle
of an intersection?
That's a pretty fundamental breh
of those rights and of
those freedoms and
that is a huge deal.
[SHERVIN] If a right that
we have is not exercised
and a freedom that we have
is not allowed
then that freedom
is meaningless.
[ABBY] There's certainly very sg
aspects of all the security meas
that really look like they're to
curtail, corral and keep speech.
We have a history of this in Ca.
During the APEC Summit, there we
protestors and the government
wanted the fence
placed in a way that would mainn
a retreat like atmosphere.
I know personally from
having spoken to people
who were extremely shaken
by their experience being
detained by the police
who would think twice about
protesting in the future.
[ROLLING THUNDER]
