May 22 Toronto The trial of […]
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1981-05-22
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May 22 Toronto The trial of demonstrator James Chemerika, charged with common assault against an officer during the February 20 protest against the bath raids, turned into an inquiry into dirty tricks played by plainclothes officers during the protest. (See also July 29–30, 1981, and September 30, 1981.)
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Cathy Smith, "Demands for Police Inquiry Increase: Harassment and Brutality of (sic) Gays Revealed at Police Assault Trial," Toronto Clarion, 10 July 1981, p. 9."Police Deny Injuring Man Arrested at Protest," Gay Niagara News, 2, no. 5 (June 1981): 4Michael McAteer, "Policeman Denies He Hit Bathhouse Raid Protester," Toronto Star, Saturday ed., 6 June 1981, p. A9Michael McAteer, "KGB Analogy Spurs Request for Mistrial," Toronto Star, Saturday ed., 23 May 1981, p. D16Bill Loos, "Trial of Demonstrator May Expose Police Dirty Tricks during Protest," Body Politic, no. 75 (1981), p. 10Patricia Horsford, "Police Injured Man Arrested at Protest on Raids, Court Told," Globe and Mail, weekend ed., 23 May 1981, p. 5Paul Bilodeau, "Lawyer's Probing May Earn Mistrial: 'Cops at Rally Like KGB,'" Toronto Sun, 24 May 1981, p. 51
