Toronto police say an internal investigation is underway after a video circulating on social media appeared to show an officer giving a citizen the middle finger over an argument about alleged illegal parking last week.
Toronto police say an internal investigation is underway after a video circulating on social media appeared to show an officer giving a citizen the middle finger over an argument about alleged illegal parking last week.
In the video, which has been viewed more than 425,000 times on TikTok, two Toronto police officers are seen ordering Starbucks in the area of Front and Berkeley streets near the city’s Distillery District on Friday afternoon.
The exchange continues for several minutes and the officers eventually get back in their cruiser. The video then shows one of them giving the citizen the middle finger from the passenger seat of the cruiser.
The individual who took the video later told CP24 that he doesn’t believe the officer knew they were being filmed as by that point he had put away the body camera he was using previously. The footage, he said, came from a pair of glasses with a built-in camera.
This isn’t being investigated due to the bird. It’s due to the illegal parking in a bike lane. Someone died a week or so ago in Toronto due to a construction bin being left in the bike lane.
Well that explains it. Although, it does seem she could have looked more carefully before leaving the bike path. And no, I don’t think it’s ok to leave the dumpster there. But the whole focus on the article was that there was no permit. A permit wouldn’t change the physical situation, only it’s legality.
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This isn’t being investigated due to the bird. It’s due to the illegal parking in a bike lane. Someone died a week or so ago in Toronto due to a construction bin being left in the bike lane.
I know I’m going to regret this but how does a person die from an errant construction bin? Couldn’t see?
Forced to move into traffic (perhaps unexpectedly) and get run over.
Forced into traffic and got hit by a truck.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/dumpster-in-cyclists-death-illegally-blocking-bike-lane/article_baab0228-4b79-11ef-8059-c3bca2562d03.html
Well that explains it. Although, it does seem she could have looked more carefully before leaving the bike path. And no, I don’t think it’s ok to leave the dumpster there. But the whole focus on the article was that there was no permit. A permit wouldn’t change the physical situation, only it’s legality.