Due to lack of evidence. Is that a riot or what? Evidence. The cops didn’t need no stinking evidence. What a sick fucking joke on us all, let alone on those innocent pedestrians and observers swept up in Harper’s paranoid version of tough on crime.
Crown prosecutors have dropped charges against nearly 100 people arrested during the G20 summit, due to a lack of evidence.
Most of them were Quebeckers who travelled to Toronto for the summit and were billeted at a gymnasium in a University of Toronto building. Early on the morning of Sunday, June 27, police raided the building and rounded up roughly 90 people. They were charged with conspiracy to commit a criminal act.
Activists said the dropping of the charges showed police didn’t have any grounds to make the arrests.
“It’s really demonstrative of the criminalization of dissent,” said Robyn Maynard with the Anti-Capitalist Convergence, a Montreal group that helped organize transportation and housing for G20 protesters. “These were really false, heavy charges of conspiracy.”
She said some of the protesters arrested at the gym were charged simply for having black clothing, the colour worn by protesters who vandalized businesses the day before.
Cross posted at Let Freedom Rain
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IANAL – but I would think they have some recourse to legal protections for vexatious and arbitrary incarcerations. If not through the Charter for having their entirely legal right to protest truncated by spurious means.
They ought to sue the police into the ground.
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