UPDATED: Four Minute Version here: http://vimeo.com/36169232
Jordan saw a poster for our Public Silence; Police Violence action and joined us hours after being beaten badly and slurred by Toronto Police after getting “lippy” when invasively strip searched, i.e. contempt of cop. (His initial “crime”? Public intoxication.) Jordan’s wounds looked eerily similar to Chris Gardian’s, the man whose one year death anniversary after a beating by an adjacent police division we were honoring.
A longer version of this interview (4 minutes) can be found here: http://vimeo.com/36169232
A ten minute telling of Chris Gardian’s story and the incredible violence level witnessed by 14 Division in 2011 can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taVjA-WUEck
52 Division is infamous for it’s sexually sadistic practices. Here’s a recent story in the Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/news/torontog20summit/article/1014327–video-shows-part-of-man-s-hellish-11-hour-g20-arrest-ordeal
