More RCMP bullshit

So on CBC news this morning I heard that the RCMP are launching a complaint against Commissioner William Elliott.

The story.

I can’t believe that the RCMP would actually have the audacity to lodge a complaint like this, citing that he is “Verbally abusive, closed-minded, arrogant and insulting” and that “Commissioner Elliott threw papers at another officer in a rage.” Talk about throwing stones in a glass house – if this is the kind of behavior that the girls and boys at the RCMP think is unacceptable, then what exactly was it that we saw at the G20 a few weeks ago? If I’m not mistaken, verbal abuse (including threats of gang rape!), closed-mindedness (including segregating LGBTQ detainees from everyone else and mocking detained female professionals for ‘acting like journalists’), arrogance (including laughing at the situation as though the police are somehow above both the law and common decency), and insult (including name calling, ridicule, humiliation, strip searches, sexual assault and threats) were all on the G20 police menu. This is not even to mention the physical abuse suffered by detainees that actually went as far as seeing a man’s prosthetic leg ripped from his body in front of his daughters as he was dragged on his elbows across grass and concrete. So, sorry RCMP, what were you complaining about again?

Besides this, I recently heard on the radio that the inquiry into the G20 police conduct will only go as far as to examine Toronto police officers – excluding those who were brought in from other places to help – and that only policy violation will be discussed - not individual experiences with individual officers. Does it seem a little off that these individual police officers are now complaining about their individual encounters with their mean old boss, when people brutalized at the G20 aren’t allowed to? It’s outrageous. These “police officers” belong in jail, where they’ll have plenty of ‘arrogant’ meanies to complain about.

Now as to why the government is stupid for entertaining this bullshit - how many officers came forward with this complaint? “Perhaps as many as 10”! And how many after the G20? Over 200? ‘Nuff said.