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Hopefully our esteemed mayor will be reading the report, and then asking Chief Blair (who has refused again to apologise) to resign.
You would think that, but you forget that Ford is a moron...
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford tells Police Chief Bill Blair to ‘hang in there’
Mayor Rob Ford expressed enthusiastic support for Police Chief Bill Blair on Sunday.
A scathing report from the province’s police watchdog concluded that officers violated citizens’ Charter rights, made unlawful arrests and used excessive force during the G20 summit in 2010. Blair has taken responsibility for the mistakes but has declined to apologize.
Ford said in the aftermath of the G20 that “our police were too nice.” At the end of his Sunday radio show, he and his brother, Councillor Doug Ford, had the following exchange:
Rob Ford: “I just want to tell our chief of police, Bill Blair, keep your head up. He’s going through some rough times right now with this G20 stuff, and I think he’s taking an unfair rap if you ask me. But hang in there, you’ll be okay.”
Doug Ford: “Yep, I double that. You know something chief, keep going. You’re a great chief. I was just talkin’ to the guys in Chicago about that NATO meeting down there, Rob, and sure enough those little anarachists, those little son of a guns, are down there, causin’ trouble. They go from city to city, and you know something . . .”
Rob Ford: “You can’t have these guys burnin’ police cars and smashin’ in windows, I’m sorry.”
Doug Ford: “Exactly. I’d stick those guys in the slammer and throw away the key.”
Rob Ford: “Sure.”
Doug Ford: “But that’s on another note. So I told them to knuckle down in Chicago. We were just watching it on the news right now, how the police are . . .”
Rob Ford: “Absolutely. No sympathy for them whatsoever.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/article...ells-police-chief-bill-blair-to-hang-in-there
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