Facing mounting criticism for an alleged tolerance of a series of road-closing anti-Israel protests, Toronto police members have sparked renewed outrage thanks to a video showing them delivering coffee to said Muslim protestors.
National Post (h/t Georgina D) Posted to social media platform ‘X’ at 2 p.m. on Saturday by Toronto lawyer and online commentator Caryma Sa’d, the video shows a Toronto police constable delivering a cardboard urn of Tim Hortons coffee and a stack of cups — to pro-Hamasl protestors occupying the closed Avenue Road bridge over Highway 401.
Police deliver box of Tim Hortons coffee to protesters on behalf of those who cannot join the highway overpass. #cdnpoli #Toronto #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #ProtestMania pic.twitter.com/tAzaEFxFM4
— Caryma Sa’d – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) January 6, 2024
UPDATE: Canada: Toronto cops defend giving coffee to pro-Hamas protesters who blocked busy highway overpass
Spokesperson Laurie McCann stated:
“In regards to the coffee post on X, Our officers are managing a dynamic situation.”
“Their top priority is maintaining order in a tense environment on the Avenue Road bridge,” McCann said in an email. “In performing a helpful act yesterday, our officer’s motivation was to help keep tensions low and should not be interpreted as showing support for any cause or group.”
“Our officers continue to work to de-escalate these demonstrations and maintain calm and the public’s safety,” McCann added.
In this case, however, for whom was order maintained? There was no order maintained for those commuters who were traveling along the busy route. Nor was there any sense of order and safety for the Jewish community. What the Toronto Police did to “de-escalate” this situation instead escalated the public’s lack of confidence in the Toronto Police’s ability to protect and to serve. Police showed their willingness to appease pro-Hamas demonstrators, whom they likely feared would become hostile and violent. The duty of the Toronto Police was to disperse the crowd to make room for through traffic on the busy Highway 401, as well as on the major Avenue Road route. That location is near a Jewish neighborhood, which some protesters called “a Zionist infested area.”
There were also no investigations announced about any violations by the pro-Hamas group of Canada’s hate laws, which state:
Public incitement of hatred
319 (1) Every one who, by communicating statements in any public place, incites hatred against any identifiable group where such incitement is likely to lead to a breach of the peace is guilty of
(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years;
(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Marginal note: Wilful promotion of hatred
(2) Every one who, by communicating statements, other than in private conversation, wilfully promotes hatred against any identifiable group is guilty of
(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or
(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Section 423(1) of the Criminal Code also states this about the overall rights of Canadian citizens:
Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction who, wrongfully and without lawful authority, for the purpose of compelling another person to abstain from doing anything that he or she has a lawful right to do, or to do anything that he or she has a lawful right to abstain from doing…..
This includes “(g) blocks or obstructs a highway.”
Pro-Hamas protesters have been filmed making violent threats to police officers in a shopping mall in Toronto. One protester can be heard threatening to put a police officer “six feet deep.”
Hartmut says
I would road block every day if it brings me free coffee LOL!
jo says
canada is lost country 2050 max is muslim nation.
The Tasmanian Devil says
Canada has become for the lack of a better term, a world class SHITBOX!
Rob R says
You know how big they are on suicide in Canada.
If Canada was kid at school, it’d be the unshaven, gloomy fat guy with the mood swings. and I’d run *waaaaaay* away every time I saw him/her coming down the corridor!
BareNakedIslam says
Rob, do you think the decision came down from the Chief of Police or was it the officers who made this stupid move on their own?
Reader says
It’s the whole culture there that has been promoted by successive Toronto mayors and successive Toronto police chiefs as well as all levels of government.
Look how the previous Toronto police chief Mark Saunders bent his knee before the grifters of BLM.
The police chief is just another political appointee and in every case may as well be another politician.
The Toronto Police Service had a whole conference on Countering Violent Extremism in November of 2017 and it was all about “white supremacists” and when they gave the example of two Islamic extremists both were white Christians who had recently converted to Islam blaming it on everything but Islam. When one person brought up an example of repeated left wing violence in the city, it was outright denied even though many people had been charged and found guilty in the examples provided; it was just outright denied though it is part of the public record.
BareNakedIslam says
Why am I not surprised. Just like the Biden Regime.
ME Infidel says
Jihadists really respect groveling. 🤮
However, looking at a bigger picture: It wouldn’t surprise me if these protestors were actually being paid by the Trudeau government so he can do his typical reaching across aisle photo op.
Reader says
Canada’s Prime Minstrel Justin Trudeau:
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Reader says
This video will explain in his own words where Trudeau’s allegiance lies.
BareNakedIslam says
I remember that disgusting video.
Reader says
Or in other words…
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Az gal says
Even the Muslums are shaking their heads. Canada is even more f**ked up than we are. Instead of the “free Palestine”, they should say what they really want- “World under Islamic control” or “Kill all nonMuslums now!”
Steve says
Canadians are #1 Dhimmis for the Moslem scumbags.
Close on their heels, British and Germans tie at #2
canuckguynbgmailcom says
Well, this takes the cake. How utterly revolting is this craven display of gutless woke nonsense. But I am no longer surprised at this crap, things started going downhill rapidly once the boyish twit Turdoo became prime minister. It is becoming increasingly embarrassing to be a Canadian.
Yvon Monahan says
Past time for the “KAFFIRS” to get serious and do what needs to be done, the future of our children is at stake.”Live free or die “