February 12 Toronto More than a […]
When
1981-02-12
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February 12 Toronto More than a hundred people attended a heated and acrimonious meeting of the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Police Commissioners, held one week after the Toronto bath raids. Numerous prominent speakers demanded an independent inquiry into the raids, including Alan Borovoy of the CCLA, journalist June Callwood, MPP Margaret Campbell (Lib.–St. George), Alderman Gordon Cressy, and Jack Layton from the Working Group on Minority-Police Relations. Gay speakers included George Hislop and Rev. Brent Hawkes of MCC Toronto. Plainclothes police officers were spotted sitting among the spectators. Protesters outside the meeting, facing a wall of police security, chanted, "Sack Jack, Dump Phil," in reference to Police Chief Jack Ackroyd and Police Commission Chairman Phil Givens. The meeting ended in hoots and jeers from the crowd as Givens announced, "We deny any allegations of police harassment," and added that there was no need for an inquiry. On February 15, Rev. Brent Hawkes began a hunger strike (which lasted twenty-five days) to demand an independent inquiry into the raids. (See also March 12, 1981.)
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March 12 Toronto Rev. Brent Hawkes […]February 5 Toronto Almost 200 police […]All Places
TorontoAll People
Gordon CressyPhilip GivensJack AckroydBrent HawkesGeorge HislopJack G. LaytonMargaret CampbellJune CallwoodAlan BorovoyAll Organizations
Canadian Civil Liberties AssociationMetropolitan Board of Commissioners of Police, Metropolitan Police CommissionAll Citations
David Lewis Stein, "Civility—But for How Long?" (column), Toronto Star, Sunday ed., 15 February 1981, p. B3.Kevin Scanlon and John Kessel, "Meeting on Police Raids Ends Noisily," Toronto Star, four star ed., 13 February 1981, p. A3"Rage!," Body Politic, no. 71 (1981), pp. 10–11"Questions Unanswered in Baths Raids" (Week in Review column), Toronto Star, Sunday ed., 15 February 1981, p. B7"Police Raids Condemned," 7 News (Toronto), 16 February 1981, p. 1"Open Raid Probe Nixed: Judge Givens Jeered by Gays, Supporters," Toronto Sun, 13 February 1981, p. 4Ian Mulgrew, "Inquiry on Bathhouse Raid Rejected Amid Accusations," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 13 February 1981, pp. 1–2Ian Mulgrew, "Independent Inquiry Sought on Baths Raids," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 10 February 1981, p. 5Andrew H. Malcolm, "Toronto Rejects Study of Raids on Homosexual Baths," New York Times, late city ed., 15 February 1981, p. 15"Homomartyrdom" (editorial), Toronto Sun, 18 February 1981, p. 10John Ferri, "Pastor to Fast Until Probe of Bath Raids," Toronto Star, four star ed., 17 February 1981, p. C18John Downing, "Mob Outhowled Reason" (column), Toronto Sun, 13 February 1981, p. 4CCLA Canadian News Notes (Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Toronto), June 1981, p. 5David Lewis Stein, "Civility—But for How Long?" (column), Toronto Star, Sunday ed., 15 February 1981, p. B3.Kevin Scanlon and John Kessel, "Meeting on Police Raids Ends Noisily," Toronto Star, four star ed., 13 February 1981, p. A3"Rage!," Body Politic, no. 71 (1981), pp. 10–11"Questions Unanswered in Baths Raids" (Week in Review column), Toronto Star, Sunday ed., 15 February 1981, p. B7"Police Raids Condemned," 7 News (Toronto), 16 February 1981, p. 1"Open Raid Probe Nixed: Judge Givens Jeered by Gays, Supporters," Toronto Sun, 13 February 1981, p. 4Ian Mulgrew, "Inquiry on Bathhouse Raid Rejected Amid Accusations," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 13 February 1981, pp. 1–2Ian Mulgrew, "Independent Inquiry Sought on Baths Raids," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 10 February 1981, p. 5Andrew H. Malcolm, "Toronto Rejects Study of Raids on Homosexual Baths," New York Times, late city ed., 15 February 1981, p. 15"Homomartyrdom" (editorial), Toronto Sun, 18 February 1981, p. 10John Ferri, "Pastor to Fast Until Probe of Bath Raids," Toronto Star, four star ed., 17 February 1981, p. C18John Downing, "Mob Outhowled Reason" (column), Toronto Sun, 13 February 1981, p. 4"CCLA Leads Demand for Inquiry into Toronto Bathhouse Raids," CLA Canadian News Notes (Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Toronto), June 1981, p. 5"Art Orders Raid Probe: Row over Missing Cop Badges," Toronto Sun, 10 February 1981, p. 18"Anti-homosexuals Back Police Raids," Toronto Star, Saturday ed., 14 February 1981, p. A3