This guy - A. Josephs - gives all law enforcement a bad name. Oversized ego, ridiculously full of himself (and full of something else). Now he's suing YouTube as part of his defamation suit against people who made cartoons depicting his idiocy...
A Toronto police officer whose stiff upper lip made him an inadvertent YouTube sensation and a symbol of police heavy-handedness at the G20 protests has launched a $1.2-million defamation lawsuit against the website.
Constable Adam Josephs was nicknamed “Officer Bubbles” after a video surfaced of him online admonishing a young protester during the summit for blowing bubbles.
Seriously, what is it with people? You put a uniform and a badge on 'em, give 'em a gun, and they lose all sense of being a human being. Wasn't like this when my uncle was an RCMP officer (though the red serge in recent years hasn't exactly fared too well in the P.R. department either).
I have no issue with either his actions towards the protestor or suing for defamation.
If I had that job to do, and some idiot was harassing me, I'd have no hesitation at throwing them in jail for the day. Having bubbles blown in your face isn't pleasant, and it's not like he could walk away and do something else. The protestor's right to free speech and freedom of assembly does not include harassing the police and being a general nuisance.
I have no issue with either his actions towards the protestor or suing for defamation.
If I had that job to do, and some idiot was harassing me, I'd have no hesitation at throwing them in jail for the day. Having bubbles blown in your face isn't pleasant, and it's not like he could walk away and do something else. The protestor's right to free speech and freedom of assembly does not include harassing the police and being a general nuisance.
I have no issue with either his actions towards the protestor or suing for defamation.
If I had that job to do, and some idiot was harassing me, I'd have no hesitation at throwing them in jail for the day. Having bubbles blown in your face isn't pleasant, and it's not like he could walk away and do something else. The protestor's right to free speech and freedom of assembly does not include harassing the police and being a general nuisance.
+3; well said.
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I have no issue with either his actions towards the protestor or suing for defamation.
If I had that job to do, and some idiot was harassing me, I'd have no hesitation at throwing them in jail for the day. Having bubbles blown in your face isn't pleasant, and it's not like he could walk away and do something else. The protestor's right to free speech and freedom of assembly does not include harassing the police and being a general nuisance.
Is only true if brains and good judgment are not considered essential requirements to being a policeman.
Still if you all feel safe in TO land knowing this Loonie Toons character is protecting you, who am I to criticize?
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