A freelance journalist was beaten by police on June 26 as he was covering a demonstration related to the G-20 summit of world leaders in
Rosenfeld said police struck him in the stomach and back as they forced him to the ground. The journalist, who has several years experience covering stories including in Israel and Palestinian territory, said he did not resist, but that the attacking officers yelled out as they were beating him, “Why are you resisting arrest?”
Police moved
in on what, according to other reporters, were nonviolent demonstrators and
journalists on Saturday evening in front of the Novotel Hotel on the Esplanade
waterfront area of
“The journalist identified himself as working for the Guardian,” tweeted Steve Paikin, a well-known Canadian journalist and host of TVO’s “The Agenda” public affairs program, according to CBS News. “He talked too much and pissed the police off. Two officers held him. A third punched him in the stomach. Totally unnecessary. The man collapsed. Then a third officer drove his elbow into the man’s back.”
The voicemail box
for press queries at the Integrated Security Unit for the G-20 summit in
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