I just found out that the Mayor of Fredericton Brad Woodside has been in China for over a week and he's arriving this evening.
Nothing against the Mayor but this one was too good to pass up...lol..
We all know there's no human rights in China!!!!
Monday, May 29, 2006
MAYBE THE FREDERICTON POLICE FORCES GOT THEIR ORDERS FROM CHINA???
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It appears from this blog that there are as much human rights in China as there are here! It seems the only people with human rights are those with no desire to exercise them.
I'll be interested to read the Gleaner story with a response from the Fredericton Police. I suspect there's more to this than I'm reading in this blog since typically police don't arrest people without some kind of just cause whether it be breaking the law, outstanding warrant, etc.
However there has been heavy handness before by police so I'll wait to hear more about the circumstances before drawing a personal conclusion.
Just a note for the future, anyone can organize a protest march. The police will actually provide you an escort as long as you're not blocking roads for an unreasonable amount of time and keep it moving. Just give them a call. Lots of groups have done this in the past. You just need a clear plan of where you're starting from and where you're ending. It's your civil right to engage in peaceful protests. The Police know that and are usually pretty reasonable. Just a suggestion folks.
is that Asaf Rashid?
From the above story we know that's not true.
Yes it's Asaf.
There are laws in Canada.
The job of the police is to make sure people don't break the laws.
When someone breaks the laws, the police step in and do their job.
That is what happened in this case.
All we asked was why we had to leave,we have the right to peacefully assemble on PUBLIC property, when asked why we had to leave they severely hurt asaf while arresting him.
You weren't there to see the pointless arrests, and the no reasons given on the tickets
If you don't break any law then you shouldn't be arrested right? So obviously that is not what happened here. Even the police chief now agrees.
The most worrying aspect of this comes out in one line in the Gleaner article-the Fredericton Police has just over a hundred officers, yet the chief says that each year they have FORTY 'official investigations'. That means FORTY times each year somebody has made a valid enough complaint against police officers that it needs to be investigated. That obviously does not include random complaints by the homeless, in those cases police are just 'doing their job'.
That's either almost half of all members of the Fredericton Police Force, or else a small group of very bad apples who clearly should not even be in that position.
40 doesn't mean that they are valid complaints. It means someone complained. The police are obliged to investigate everything. It just depends on the circumstances how far the investigation goes. That could include someone who was drunk, attacked the police and ended up with a black eye in the result of trying to gain control. They file a complaint but if they hadn't attacked the police, force wouldn't have been necessary so in turn one of those 40 complaints becomes bogus but it still shows up as one.
From what I've read, the Chief has only said that they want to find out what happened not that they were wrong. Mr. Rashid has admittedly been arrested before and I highly doubt racism played a role every time. There's something missing in this story. What was he saying to police? Was he asked to leave? Was he breaking the law? I don't know but reading the comments here and the media, we have not heard the whole story from Rashid or the Police. If it gets to court, hopefully the facts will come out then. As I said above, next time inform the police of the protest, the plan and you can work together on an amicable demonstration.
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