Nobody Assaulted. Nobody Arrested.

Ontario police watchdog reopens G20 'Nobody' arrest investigation

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Adam Nobody’s injuries: A shattered cheekbone and a broken nose

The video is only 26 seconds long, depicting one of the more than 1,000 arrests at the G20 summit in Toronto in June. But this short, shaky sequence has ignited a furor that has drawn in the province’s police watchdog, Toronto’s top cop and two strangers on either side of the camera.

Now, the Special Investigations Unit has said it will reopen the probe into the alleged beating of a G20 protester at the hands of police, based both on the police chief’s assertion that the video was tampered with and the objection of the person with the camera, who says the man arrested wasn’t fighting back.

The SIU cited the video, which shows 27-year-old Adam Nobody taken to the ground and arrested at Queen’s Park on June 26, as evidence police “probably” used excessive force against Mr. Nobody, who suffered a broken nose and shattered cheek. The SIU, however, couldn’t identify any of the police involved because the arresting officer provided a badge number that belonged to a Quebec police officer who wasn’t assigned to the summit.

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Chief Blair's claim that they forensically analyzed this video is laughable. Something akin to former Republican Senate majority leader Bill Frist diagnosing Terry Shiavo as having cognitive functions from a tv clip. Mr. Nobody didn't have a broken nose or cheek before he went to Queen's Park that day. Who did it? Nobody? Here is the video again. Tom