Toronto cops make early arrest at Walk with Israel
The Walk for Israel had not even begun and Toronto Police set the tone with its first arrest.
Toronto City Councillor James Pasternak says that he has been told by police that they will not allow the same ‘Gauntlet of Hate’ to hector Jews to occur at the Walk with Israel as it did one year ago.
“We have assurances from the Toronto Police Service that the weakness in last year’s walk will be addressed,” the York Centre Ward 6 councillor told the Toronto Sun.
And police are setting a tone that they mean it.
At 8:45 a.m., before anybody had taken the walk route from Wilson Ave. north on Bathurst St. to Sheppard Ave., as captured by former TPS officer and crime specialist Ross McLean, Toronto Police put a woman wearing a keffiyeh and hijab in handcuffs and took her into custody.
Cops were also moving in on protesters moving in with flags, and forcing them to retreat to go into a designated protest area.
