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Today in #FuckThePolice

Turns out that not only am I NOT EVEN REMOTELY associated with the cop being killed a couple of days ago, it's probably the fucking cops themselves tied to shootings at the US Consulate (and probably synagogues).

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Network linked to GFL attacks: sources
According to a source close to the investigation into the gun-for-hire network, Bennett is also believed to be connected to a string of recent attacks on GFL, the waste-management firm that controls much of Toronto’s garbage and recycling collection. The company has been at the centre of a violent and confusing saga for more than two years, with a handful of shootings targeting the homes of top executives, as well as offices and other facilities. Most recently, GFL was targeted in roughly a half a dozen attacks over the course of a few weeks in March.

The source, whom the Star agreed not to name because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the case, said police believe the gun-for-hire network was responsible for the GFL attacks, assigning a team of teenagers to carry out shootings.

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The probe’s dragnet has spanned a number of cases related to ongoing violence in the GTA’s long-fraught towing industry, said a government official with knowledge of a wider investigation into GTA guns-for-hire, whom the Star agreed not to name because they are not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

Over recent years, the GTA saw a significant spike in violence related to the towing industry, including shootings, extortions, arson and at least two homicides. In 2024, Toronto police linked 63 firearm discharges to the sector, accounting for almost 13 per cent of shootings in the city that year. Police tell the Star that figure dropped slightly in 2025, to just under seven per cent.
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*cough*Project South*cough*

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Related: I find it very difficult to imagine that I can possibly cause more anti-police sentiment than the fucking TPS.

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Sukhram, himself a drug squad officer, pleaded guilty in June to possession of cocaine and methamphetamine, breach of trust and obstructing justice.

According to two separate agreed statements of facts, Sukhram took part in carrying out a search warrant at the apartment of an alleged drug dealer on Jarvis Street in Toronto on July 2, 2024.

Sukhram and six other officers were involved in the operation. The alleged dealer had been arrested earlier that day after selling drugs to police.

Various quantities of GHB, ecstasy, crystal meth, cocaine, methamphetamine tablets, Xanax, Adderall Pink and ketamine were seized from a safe in the living room.

The officers returned to the police's drug squad building and worked overtime to process the drugs. Sukhram left at about 1:25 a.m. in plainclothes with a black backpack.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-police-officer-sentenced-drug-charges-9.7232669

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7 cops.
2 × 1 hour
5 × 1.5 hours

Standing around in the sun because too many melanated people are gathering, talking about the harms police cause.

To be clear, there are at least 9 speccons from Queen's Park here lest the darkies get rowdy, but TPS wants theirs, too.

Shitlibs! If you ever wonder why your wait times are so high, this is why.

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It was a long day yesterday.
(It's going to be another long day today, but at least I get some gardening time in before the shit show.)

Yesterday's event was a lovely part of the AAPI Heritage Month festivities, that had drumming and lion dancing, plus I got a knot in my upper back lessened.

But also the cops briefly turned up, justifying our presence.

It is amazing to me that Toronto Police Service has yet to figure out that we are asked to be present at an ever-widening array of events, precisely because someone is anticipating police malfeasance.

A certain someone has been saying that our refusal to pretend to be neutral means that we shouldn't be calling ourselves "legal observers", because there is an air of neutrality in the name.

I say that is an illusion.
Legal observers are requested specifically to watch and document POLICE malfeasance. Even the NLG with its policy of not chanting or participating in protests, are not there to document what the protestors do.

We at Orange Hats take the policy that as long as the police are not "malfeasing", we are free to do anything up to, but not including, civil disobedience while wearing the hat. (We can always take the hat off.)

Calling cops "fascist motherfuckers" is not civil disobedience. I'm sure they would love to arrest me for that, yet it's not illegal. Sucks being them.

Anyway, as anticipated, a clusterfuck of cops turned up to intimidate attendees at the Asian Massage Festival yesterday, an event put on by a community heavily over-policed, and so we had been asked to be present.

I (being me) had a "Tell Cersei" moment and walked down the stairs to a point where they could see me to snap a photo, which is when they noticed four other Orange Hats peering over the railing collecting their badge numbers. 😁

On their way out the door (having been invited to get the fuck out by facilities management) one of our favourites rambled some nonsense about OH being "anti-cop disruptors" and that people shouldn't want to be associated with us.

In that we *disrupted* their plans to force their way in and threaten people, I guess maybe we are. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Somehow, I don't think cops would like it better if we were called Police Malfeasance Observers and Documenters + Legal Support, which is technically what we are.

Also they should stop getting their ✌🏾"intel"✌🏾 from Caryma, and I would probably stop mockingly asking them if they "realize that intel is short for intelligence," and they should probably stop looking to a person who is fatally allergic to the concept for theirs.

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