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'Officer Bubbles' Sues YouTube Commenters Over Mockery
An anonymous reader writes "'Officer Bubbles' — the Toronto Police Constable who was videotaped threatening a G20 protester with arrest for assault over the crime of blowing bubbles at a police officer has had enough of mocking videos and comments on YouTube. He has decided to sue everyone involved (commenters included) for more than a million dollars each. The complaint is detailed in his statement of claim — most of the comments seem fairly tame by internet standards; if this goes anywhere, everyone is going to have to watch what they say pretty carefully. The lawsuit appears to have been successful in intimidating the author of the mocking cartoons into taking them down."
Yes. In Canada they're Royal douches!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Sue me.
You can't take the sky from me...
I think it's pretty clear from the video that he wasn't talking to the mob. He was talking one-on-one to a single individual.
It took all of two seconds to find a copy of the video in question here. Not sure why the officer's lawyer thinks they got it taken down successfully unless I'm missing something....
I just love the look of shock on the female cop's face when this guy suddenly butted into a polite conversation between her and the completely peaceful, friendly female protester and threatened to arrest her for assault if one of the bubbles touched him. The "tell" was that her jaw dropped *very* visibly. So even other cops on scene thought his behavior was out of line. Based on that, it's hard to believe anyone could defend his behavior.
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Actually no he's not power tripping. Defamation of a public figure and suing over that is legal in Canada.
Welcome to Canada post Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Then again most people outside of Canada, and most inside Canada have no clue how the law works here.
Om, nomnomnom...
You seem to forget that in the US, you're not allowed to protest these things at all.
Apparently the right of people to peacefully assemble somehow means that the government is allowed to tell people where they can peacefully assemble, so whenever something like a G20 summit or the Democratic National Convention occurs,US Police set up "free speech zones" where people are allowed to protest without any danger of anyone noticing them.
Protesting anywhere else will get your arrested.
And, yes, I'm calling out the DNC here, not because the Republicans don't do it too (they do), but because the Democrats did it first.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.