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Watchdog blasts ‘excessive’ policing at G20 Toronto summit
OTTAWA — Canadian police used “excessive force,” ignored civil rights and made “unlawful” mass arrests in cracking down on unruly protests at a G20 summit in Toronto two years ago, a watchdog said Wednesday. Gerry McNeilly, head of the Office of the Independent Police Review Director, in a scathing 300-page…
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