Report exonerates RCMP for actions during violence-marred G20 summit

The RCMP abandoned its policy of allowing protesters to peacefully disperse when it assisted the municipal Toronto police force in three “kettling” incidents during the G20 summit in June 2010, a watchdog report says. RCMP officers on the ground during the summit expressed concerns about using the “kettling” tactic — forcibly boxing in protesters — but relented because they were officially under the command of other police forces.


Other than that criticism, however, the report from the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP nearly completely exonerates the force’s actions during the summit, for which more than two dozen complaints were filed. The national force acted in a “reasonable and appropriate” manner during the violence-marred summit, the report said.

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