Canadian Police Accused Of Impersonating Journalists

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Garry Sault, middle, talks with the media after questioning Six Nations protesters as they guard the front entrance of a housing development in Hagersville, Ont., just south of the 15-month aboriginal occupation at Caledonia on Wednesday, May 23, 2007. CP PHOTO/Nathan Denette Garry Sault, middle, talks with the media after questioning Six Nations protesters as they guard the front entrance of a housing development in Hagersville, Ont., just south of the 15-month aboriginal occupation at Caledonia on Wednesday, May 23, 2007. CP PHOTO / Nathan Denette

By Tania Kohut | Global News, Jan 15, 2016

Ontario police officers still have the right to impersonate journalists for investigative purposes, but have agreed to guidelines for doing so.

But defence lawyer Peter Rosenthal says the guidelines will do little to change police behaviour. Rosenthal represented Shawn Brant, an aboriginal activist who was filmed by a police officer posing as a journalist during the aboriginal day of action protests in 2007.

“When they make an announcement…that they’ll continue it but only under certain circumstances, it doesn’t really help,” said Rosenthal. “It doesn’t say, don’t do it or you’re going to be punished.”

After a years-long legal battle, the Ontario Provincial…

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NY Woman Raped By eHarmony Date 

  
According to CBS News:

A woman arranged to meet a man she met on the dating site eHarmony by taking a bus into the city.

The woman got to the terminal and the man said he had a weapon and forced her to downstairs under the Port Authority. The man eventually took the woman to an abandoned subway tunnel to attack her.

The woman went found her way out after the alleged attack and contacted a nearby firefighter. The firefighter then contacted police.

The woman was treated at a nearby hospital.

eHarmony said in a statement that they have not been contacted by authorities about the case, but that they would cooperate, if asked.

We were shocked and saddened to learn about this tragic situation and are in the process of looking into it,” the statement said. “We use industry-leading technologies and a team of experts to screen potential users with the objective of keeping those with ill intent out of our ecosystem.

Florida Man Gets Out Car With Weed Stuck To His Shirt During Traffic Arrest

SMH! This guy!

Judging by his relaxed mugshot, he was definelty getting “high on his own supply!”

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A northwest Florida man was arrested Friday morning he exited his vehicle with marijuana on his shirt.

Kyle Evans Jeansonne, 22, was pulled over  at 4 a.m. after police was alerted that he had drugs in his possession, the Northwest Florida Daily News reports. 

When Jeansonne stepped out of the vehicle, he had “a leafy substance stuck on his shirt”, which the cops tested as marijuana.

Jeansonne attempted to hide a “Batman bag” under his seat and when asked by police to bring it out, the man told them “it was something bad,” which is why he was trying to hide it. Inside the bag were a scale and 20 Xanax pills.

The 22-year-old was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, and possession of narcotic equipment.

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