“Many people in Toronto feel that the police overstepped and manipulated the law in order to abuse their power,” Jean McDonald, a mother and Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster University said in a press release issued by CSN. “This is not about a few bad officers or even one police force; this is about an oppressive political & security system in which politicians & the upper ranks of police forces conspired in order to silence dissent and violate people's rights.”