Cyclist hit by Toronto police cruiser prompts calls to diffuse police presence in High Park

What happens in these situations? Do they sue the cops?

Move on folks, and whatever you do - don't look up that sergeant's salary

Btw this Sargeant is making more per year than the Mayor or Premier....yet they have buddy ticketing cyclists in the park.

https://www.sunshineliststats.com/​Salary/​blainyoung/​2015/​9/?employer=cityoftorontopoliceservice

Remember this when it's voting time in the fall.

No charges for a cop hitting a cyclist with a cop car? But cyclists getting ticketed for rolling stops? How about applying the law equally?

Oh wait, Rules for thee, but not for me should be the TPS new motto. I mean in the ~ last month

• Young man killed after cops physically assaulted him and ran away, it's been 15 months and still no answers, while cops enjoy long paid vacation

• Toronto cop ‘intentionally LIES’ in court, leading to major fentanyl case collapse. Same cop previously criminally charged with shooting

• Senior TPS cop, in charge of disciplining other crooked cops, almost fell over because he was so drunk, causes huge collision with police SUV

• Judge calls out Toronto cops for unprofessionalism while they sent funny texts to each multiple times during live domestic violence trial. The accused was acquitted.

• York cop drinks and drives after losing softball game, runs over motorcyclist leading to leg amputated, cop flees the scene, impaired driving charge dropped because cop colleagues 'forget' to properly advise him of rights, been on paid vacation since 2019

• Peel drug cop exposes anonymous Crime Stoppers tipster to confidential informant. Not fired

• TPS cop already charged for theft, found to make ADDITIONAL thefts

• OPP cop who illegally steered $500k in business to tow truck operators given light sentence. Been on paid vacation for years

• Former cop tells police board she experienced a ‘poisoned’ culture for decades

• Police chief LIES; Law does not stop Toronto police from looking for officers behind ‘systemic discrimination,’ privacy commissioner clarifies, contradicting Chief's earlier claim

• Peel police officer charged in fraud investigation

• Report shows almost 1/​3 of women at the TPS experience sexual harassment

• TPS admits that their own data undeniably shows systematically discrimination against Black people, uses more disproportionate amount of force which can only be explained by race of victim

• Bike cops continue wearing racist anti-Black flag on their official uniform This in spite they were told not to over a year ago.

• Drug case collapses bc cop "loses" video evidence and lies about it

• [Investigation finds ~ 100 cases where TPS violate charter of rights. TPS say they're gonna "investigate" themselves] (https://www.thestar.com/​news/​investigations/​2022/​06/​13/​toronto-police-reviewing-officers-conduct-in-nearly-100-cases.html)

Some user in the thread yesterday said it best: Cops ticketing cyclists in High Park is all just a dog-and-pony show to look busy.

Meanwhile, motorists are still blasting down Parkside drive like they're already on the Gardener.

I think TPS just likes hanging out at the park… the rest is just gravy

According to publicly available Toronto police data, between 2006 and 2020, there have been 16 incidents of cyclists striking pedestrians in which a serious or fatal injury was reported. None of those incidents were in High Park.

This is what kills me: 16 incidents in 14 years yet in the same period, an average of 179 pedestrians annually were injured or killed by vehicles. That's one every two days on average.

All logic has gone out the window.

We need less cars in High Park. TPS proved that yesterday.

That cop single handedly caused more danger in high park than all the cyclists combined.

Police should need to continually prove that their interventions don’t cause more harm than the problem they are trying to solve.

Close high park to cars, cultivate a safe cycling community, get rid of the police unless they can prove they’re actually doing something useful.

I'll just throw this out here too while we are at it.....

https://cyclingmagazine.ca/​sections/​news/​the-man-who-assaulted-a-cyclist-may-be-an-off-duty-officer/

Oh - now John Tory can’t say anything about TPS operations and conduct. And just last week he was standing behind their blitzes in High Park.

I don't know if this is a good idea. If people stop focusing on the dangers of bicycles, they might want action on housing or health care.

Hey TPS, we could maybe use you guys in other parts of the city sometime for real police work if you got a sec.

R/​Toronto cyclists and pedestrians have finally united - over a mutual hatred of cops

So instead of patrolling the streets and preventing crime and increasing car jacking, out brave police officers are targeting cyclists? Are you frickin kidding me. But then we elected a Con mayor and premier so what do you expect? Ontario, enjoy what you showed.

then within 12 months there will be another bunch of people who get flashed or sexually assaulted in the park and then there will be a call for more police presence in High Park

The officer has investigated himself and cleared himself of any wrongdoing.

/S

Thursday August 11th at 6pm at High Park Gates.

Slow Rolling protest.

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Cops doing fuck all in cushy areas, where are all the cops around sketchy parts of Toronto? What a joke..