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Just don't get yourself arrested. @CalgaryPolice are just as forceful as ever AS LONG AS YOU'RE NOT AN ANTIVAXER. Might get hit with a bike or other blunt instrument. They don't even care if you're a senior citizen, right @neufeld_mark? /41 #yyc #yyccc
DO YOU GET THAT THIS IS YOUR WHOLE CAREER FLASHING BEFORE YOUR EYES CHIEF @neufeld_mark? This IS a policing failure. We don't NEED to be told its not & we don't NEED to be told to just LIE DOWN & TAKE IT. You need to EXPLAIN THE FAILURE. /42 #yyc #yyccc
And until somebody gives me another credible reason for this policing failure I'll just reiterate EXACTLY what I think it is. I'd *love* a better explanation. /43
What's the cost so far here in Calgary? /44 #yyc #yyccc ottawa.ctvnews.ca/freedom-convoy…
This injunction is Chief @neufeld_mark's crucible: will his @CalgaryPolice enforce the injunction, use the time it buys them to implement a mitigation plan vs the antivax hoard or do they waste it & his career's in the toilet like Ottawa Chief @OPSChiefSloly's? /45 #yyc #yyccc
I am grateful to the @cityofcalgary for the injunction & I will honour it. I expect Chief @neufeld_mark & his @CalgaryPolice to also honour it to the full letter AND spirit of the law. /46 #yyc #yyccc cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
OVER TO YOU, @neufeld_mark @CalgaryPolice /47 #yyc #yyccc
They've made it abundantly clear, Chief @neufeld_mark: they don't recognize your authority or care about the injunction. @CalgaryPolice can start clearing them out RIGHT NOW. Your whole career hinges on what you do TODAY #DefendTheBeltline /48 #yyc #yyccc
GET ON IT @CalgaryPolice. WE WANT THEM GONE. /49 #yyc #yyccc
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Early signs of a potential win for our long suffering #Beltline today. It's just one day and absent a plan for injunction's end we're right back where we started but a decent start. /51 #yyc #yyccc
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If today's outcome is the proto-fascist hoard had to move their noise to #CityHall where it belongs & away from our long suffering #Beltline, this'll have been a win for Calgary's City Council & their injunction move. Short term but a win nonetheless.
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/56 aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/19…
"Cut and PRINT! That's a wrap, people. Now where's my martini!" /57 #yyc #yyccc #DefendTheBeltline
This was enormously satisfying /58
Ah hell, I'm just gonna say it: my guess is if you have an #ILoveOilAndGas bumper sticker on your truck you're also an Antivaxer. /59 #ThereISaidIt
"What the truckers’ convoy revealed about policing in Canada: Initial hands-off approach to far-right movement reveals double standards and institutional police biases, experts say." /60 aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/19… Image
😬 It's crass 😬 but I feel like this proto-fascist #FreedomConvoy imbecile crapping his pants & blaming the police for it is whatever the exact opposite of 'a cherry on top' is. #Freedom /61 #yyc
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/61 calgaryherald.com/opinion/column…
If the injunction comes & goes without @neufeld_mark & the @CalgaryPolice having a plan in place to secure our long suffering #Beltline going forward every sensible Calgarian must demand his resignation /62 #yyc #yyccc #DefendTheBeltline
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VICTORY: NO MORE GANG PATCHES FOR POLICE. THE BADGE IS ENOUGH /65 #yyc #yyccc
Not acceptable. All this says to me is that the #calgarypolice needs to be dragged to accountability. You're not a gang. Stop acting like one or this city will have to make an example of you for the rest of the #PoliceGangs in Canada. /66 #yyc #yyccc
TIME FOR LEADERSHIP, CHIEF @neufeld_mark. Fine 'em or fire 'em or get fired yourself. /67 #yyc #yyccc
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The question for @CalgaryPolice Chief @neufeld_mark is not what the #ThinBlueLine patch means to him but what it means to the Calgarians he's SWORN to #ServeAndProtect /69 #yyc #yyccc
Re-upping /70
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"Voluntary compliance" was Neufeld's big strategy for the Freedom Convoy neofascists attacking our beltline before City Hall stepped in and saved him with a temporary injunction. We've *still* heard no strategy for when the injunction ends /77
Because everybody knows the removal of a small patch is a massive undertaking. I understand biker gangs run into this sort of thing all the time, had you considered asking their advice @neufeld_mark? /78 #yyc #yyccc
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I'm not *at all* saying that all #ThinBlueLine police are corrupt, racist &/or excessively violent by any means. I *am* saying that if you are police & you are corrupt, racist and/or excessively violent you wear the #ThinBlueLine gang patch. I guarantee it /79
Other than the threat of brute force or wrongful imprisonment why should I respect the authority of what is increasingly looking/acting like a paramilitary force? You're on the taxpayer dime @CalgaryPolice. Enough. Put your gang patches away. Protect and serve. /80 #yyc #yyccc
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Every time I see a transcript from a @neufeld_mark presser I feel like I have ten more questions based on every comment of his. For example, is this a threat? /82 #yyc #yyccc
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According to them? Nobody. Hence the problem. Couldn't be made clearer than in Calgary today /84
All that said, I've known the whole way I run risks writing a thread like this. Will my account be next? I've been taken out a couple times before. Could it be something worse than shutting down my online voice? Sure it could. /85 #yyc #yyccc
It's seeing one policing problem & seeing another policing problem & realizing it might very well be the same problem. Absent a satisfactory explanation of that first problem from @CalgaryPolice & @neufeld_mark how'll we know it's not the same problem? /86
So Freedom Convoy™️ policing failure begets #ThinBlueLine gang patch jeopardy. This keeps snowballing and it begets us ALL taking a hard look at @CalgaryPolice OVERSIGHT & more teeth for #CalgaryPoliceCommission. Certain as the tides. /87 #yyc #yyccc
Re-upping /88

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