I just realised this was in Toronto, which totally changes my perspective.
The OPP are a bunch of total tossers, and the G20 was the worst, because they brought in cops from all over, so you had cops from Hamilton etc, who don't give a crap about the rep of the Toronto-area Police, basically bullying citizens for 2 days and getting their kicks from it. The rep of the OPP is still in tatters from that debacle.
A more inteersting Toronto Police story is the one about the shoe-less bum.
A shoe-less bum, who was just a bit mental, jumped into a snow plough in downtown Toronto this winter, while the driver was talking to some other plough-buddies, and drove it like a destruction derby through the streets, wrecking cars etc (ploughs are huge). So a Toronto Police officer jumps out into the street, in front of the plough, and fires 9 shots into the cab, wounding the bum. Then the cop gets MOWED down by the plough, completely flattened, and is later hailed as a 'hero of Toronto', with a big ol' fancy funeral.
I wasn't thinking he was a hero, I was mainly thinking "why did he jump in front of a hijacked renegade snow-plough and start going all TJ-Hooker?". The OPP went to town on this tragedy, and milked it like a 'promotional event' to boost their cred following the G20 and try to renew public support for themselves. Terrible really.
