Umm

well

 

The cops broke my arm in April when I was attending a gin tasting. 

An educational event for bartenders in the city of Toronto.

 

I was a bartender for 10 years nearly. This is how I paid for trips to LA and film courses at Ryerson 

 

Essentially I walked past a commercial on Queen Street towards Dufferin. Networked with some crew members there in an effort to make connections for the work season that was starting up (I’m a set dresser in two film unions)

 

Basically when I was leaving the Gin tasting I left with a broken arm.

I essentially got in an altercation with a female officer who I told was racist. Because she was. 

She was trying to arrest me for no reason. I was drunk - just like every other bartender there.

She did not need to pick on me. She could have picked anyone.

I travelled back to Parkdale and essentially had to push my own arm back into place. It wasn’t the officers place to injure someone and put them out of work for two months.

I basically walked around Parkdale for a week before I finally went to St.Joes where a couple of my friends work with a broken arm just thinking it was dislocated.

 

I had a shitty arm sling that wasn’t really sufficient. Later a friend who is a security guard convinced to go get a better sling.

 

Since then as a non threatening female who has never committed a crime I’ve been continuously harassed by Toronto cops who are mainly young and new to the force and really have had no idea what they are doing.

With the exception of a few older cops who just misogynistic assholes.

 

Listen I have a lot of cops in my family. That are good people.

I have cousin who’s very high up in the military.

 

There’s something wrong.

 

Some of these cops are not being trained properly and they are getting into this job for all the wrong reasons. 

They aren’t there protecting people. Their harassing and hurting innocent people.

They should be thinned out. Firefighters are there to save people. They should become firefighters instead.

 

They should also have to spend 2 weeks in a jail cell before they are allowed to carry hand cuffs

 

and spend a year studying psychology at U OF T

umm

..

 

what else??