If true, a disgusting example of excessive police force: Posted on 05/18/2009 9:09:32 AM PDT by Notoriously Conservative
If true, a disgusting example of excessive police force:
A Montreal/Laval cop cuffed and dragged a university student away, throwing her in a holding cell and writing her a ticket for CDN$420 ...for failing to hold the handrail while she dug in her bag for her subway fare.
Bela Kosoian, a 38-year-old mother of two, says when she didn't hold the handrail Wednesday she was cuffed, dragged into a small holding cell and fined. "It was horrible, disgusting behaviour [by police]," said Ms. Kosoian, a 38-year-old student of international law. "I did nothing wrong. They should go find the guys who stole my tires off the balcony." Ms. Kosoian, who studies at the Université du Québec à Montreal, was riding an escalator down to catch a 5:30 p.m. subway from the suburb of Laval to an evening class downtown when she started rifling through her backpack looking for a fare. Ms. Kosoian, who grew up in Georgia when it was still part of the Soviet Union, says she didn't catch the officer's instruction to hold the rail when he first approached. When he told her again to hang on, she says she replied, "I don't have three hands." Besides, she had been sick and feared catching a new bug.
<(Image: John Morstad/For The Globe and Mail)
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Canada, like the United States, needs more Andy Taylors in law enforcement and fewer Barney Fifes.
Welcome to the world that Liberals have made. Will this change your voting pattern Ms. Laval?
We need to trade in all of our “Law Enforcement Officers” for “Peace Officers”.
Wow... when did it become Against The Law not to hold the escalator rail?
And when did it become an offense deserving Use-of-Force on the scale of handcuffing? That’s pretty dam’n serious stuff.
My home-and-native-land is in dire peril if it has slipped to these depths in my absence.
> Welcome to the world that Liberals have made. Will this change your voting pattern Ms. Laval?
For now, Canada has a Conservative government. Just to let you know...
Well then she should feel right at home.
several Canadians have told me that the Montreal Police have had a history of this sort of thing
Maybe is was when she took the Lucky Strike out of her mouth so she could tell the cop to kiss her A$$,(in her best Natacha accent), that the cop got angry.
Montreal is still a part of Canada? Who knew?
"Forbidden"!? Ah yes, the jackboots have a home in the Montreal subway system.
How conservative is Canadian conservatism?
I believe Mark Steyn is not impressed with the current political environment up north.
And they let her go?!!! What? Are they crazy?!!! Well, while she was detained at least there was a period of time that all escalator riding civilians were safe.
One of comments from the Globe-n-Mail got my attention.
Comes off as a little naive, don’t ya think???
> Montreal is still a part of Canada? Who knew?
Evidently you did.
I never hold those handrails - cooties, you know...
Actually, by not having hand gel at the end of each escalator they are violating my rights to be virus-free/sarc
> How conservative is Canadian conservatism?
That question would need answering on multiple levels. The “Progressive Conservative” conservatism of Brian Mulroney’s era was akin to the RINOs that plague the GOP: not very conservative. They are gone.
In the intervening time the Conservative movement in Canada has been struggling to redefine itself, and I’m not too displeased with what seems to be forming. I voted “Reform” in my very last Canadian election — the one that saw the PC’s under Kim Campbell relegated to oblivion.
I think it will take a while before the conservative side of thing beds down properly. But it will. Canada has always been strongest when there is a well-defined difference between the Whigs and the Tories.
Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives did dreadful damage to Canada. It will take a very long time to recover, I believe.
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