Warnings! Do Not Antagonize, Tease or Comment on the Cut of Gib!

It would seem that the police appear to think they can simply stop me anytime they like and if they don't like the cut of my gib ~ so to speak ~ they charge me with a breach of my probation ("failure to keep the peace") and whoosh - badda bing baDDa bOOm - a week in jail.
Just like that.
Really.
and people wonder why i do not care for the way our police act.
They abuse their power constantly. Over my time as a poor homeless man suffering and battling drug addiction i was beaten by them, arrested several time for absolutely no reason, harassed by them on countless other occasions, publicly humiliated by them, had friends of mine beaten, robbed and raped. Both men and women I know have been hurt and hurt and again hurt by not only the Police in our fair city of Toronto but by the Guards at our fine prisons and in our fine courthouses and let us not forget those fine fine men and women protecting our local shopping centers and educational institutions of higher learning...

Just finished my last 7-day "B#llSh!t" sentence tonight and I am exhausted. I am hitting the sack and going to restart world tomorrow..

I saw these two guards in A and D over at the West Detention Centre give these two small men (and when I say small they were 100 lbs each if they were soaking wet and with handfuls of change in their pockets ) the most ferocious beatings I ever saw administered to anyone in real live.
It felt like I walked into a horror movie and the worse part was I was helpless to do anything as I watched there monstrous 250 + pound men simply and savagely beat the living snot out of these two much smaller and very scared young men.
Why did this happen you may ask yourself?

Well.....
{I do have to add both men were black (one was a 20ish man from the city - Nice kid - cocky, funny but not a 'gangsta' - the 2nd was an equally nice but rather shy kid from Somalia - I mention these boys background because I honestly do believe this was partially a racially motivated act of brutality}
The lead Guard in A and D at the West Detention Center - a huge monster of angry matter nicknamed "Bam Bam" ~ so named because he looks like the cartoon caveman all grown up ~ overheard the two small newcomers to the jail system refer to one of the female guards as very "sexy". I was there and that is exactly what was said. Bam Bam stopped and shouted into the very full holding cell that he would not tolerate that kind of talk and he would make sure the person or persons who said anything about the women who worked at the West would pay dearly for the insult to these fine women of honour. After the overcrowded holding cell was nearly empty - expect for me, the two I already described as well as another smallish Sri-Lankin guy and some guy sleeping in the corner.

The cockier of the two youth is taken out of the cell and goes to the desk to file paperwork and begin changing out of street clothing and into prison orange. According to what I heard later in Medical - Bam Bam asked the youth if he would be going into PC again this time as, according to what the youth told me, the last time he was in there were some nasty guys gunning for him and if he went into General pop he would have been as good as dead... Anyways the youth replied that he was ok this time and that gen pop would be fine. This was the moment the guard went crazy and grabbed the half-naked youth by the hair and started bashing his head off the desk, another guard joined in and they beat the living hell out of this young man - screaming that this was what happened to people who said anything about any woman who worked at the West. The youth screamed in pain as the beating continued - off camera and in full view of the prisoners who were waiting to be processed.

We looked on in absolute terror and pant-filling fear as a third guard joined in and contributed a few well placed kicks and punches. After at least a ten minute beating they drag the guy over to the bars leading to our holding cell where we can really see him and they start bashing his swollen face off the bars demanding the guy point out which one of us has also said anything about any of the women in the facility. The absolute terror that was felt at that moment at they tortured this guy in order to force a confessional accusation out of him. He eventually and not without a few good and I mean hard as hell encounters with the solid steel cell bars finally entice the guy to point begrudgingly to his friend - the other small man in the cell - sitting next to me - not the Sri Lankin guy but the Somalian dude. He stands up and starts apologising profusely and swears on his mother's life he meant no disrespect and please if they could see how very sorry he was and how definitely he had learned his lesson. Bam Bam dragged the 1st guy away to continue his beating which I later heard took about another half hour or so and involved Bam Bam sitting on the young man's chest shaking with rage and screaming "so you want to fuck me eh? asshole - you want to fuck me!? - well here I am!! - if you want to fuck one of the women here - who might be one of our wives or sisters then you must want to fuck me too!!" as he beat the young man into unconsciousness. Later on I think he just felt bad about being forced to point out his new friend who they dragged out of the cell screaming and begging for mercy. The other guard - after waiting about 3 minutes for Bam Bam to give the go-ahead finally said "I can't wait anymore for this asshole - I'm taking him out now".
The second large guard ~who's name is not Bam Bam but he did look alot like him ~ came into our cell and grabbed the Somalian youth by the hair and dragged him out into the main area in front of where we were being held - where they proceeded to beat him in a manner similar to the way they beat his friend. He screamed at the top of his lungs for forgiveness - that he was sorry and they continued to beat him. At one point he screamed that God knew he was sorry - could they please stop. The reply we heard was that it was too bad 'cause God didn't work at the West.
It went on for about ten more minutes for this youth. Bam Bam jumped between the two beatings like a kid caught between his two favorite flavours of ice cream and simply could not decide which flavor tasted better...

Later I heard that the guard told the Somalian Youth he had better tell the Nurse the injuries he had were self-inflicted and that he was suicidal or another beating - worse than the first would follow him upstairs onto the range. These guys get away with murder - what are a few beatings?
It was simply horrible. I will have nightmares forever about that i guess - my nightmare catalog growing too large too fast over last few years. It is simply too bad that so many of my nightmares come from real life examples and even sadder that these examples are from people who are in positions of authority and expected to safeguard and protect us.

These two young men are not in jail for doing anything bad - they did not kill or rape anyone - they did not brutally attack anyone on the street or even get stopped selling drugs.
One was a domestic incident that got out of control and the neighbours heard raised voices and the police were called. Due to a prior conviction for theft under the man was arrested lest the situation turn ugly. They will likely reconcile and if they cannot make it work they will break up and no one will hurt the other - This situation with the arrest already put behind them - what happened with the guards in the Prison will likely haunt that young man the rest of his life...
The other man was charged with shoplifting a pair of gloves from a store cause he was broke and his fingers were very very cold. He knew what he did was wrong and he pleaded guilty and expected to do his time like a man. He was afraid when he came in but initially he was scared of what the other prisoners might do to him. He learned very very fast - even before he made it up onto the range to start serving his 7 day sentence that the other prisoners have one way of dealing with things and the Guards? well They have another way entirely of their own.

One of the worse parts of this story is that not one person I spoke to while inside the system was surprised and each and every one of the numerous other prisoners I spoke to had similar if not scarier stories to share about similar things they had either seen or experienced first hand. What is even worse is when I stopped to think about it - it was not even the worse thing I ever saw a guard do to a prisoner - maybe one day I will tell you about the Guard at the Don who raped an inmate who had just gotten beat up by another inmate - how this guard beat the inmate with his billy club and forced the man to perform oral sex on him while the other - truly psychotic inmate who started the whole thing proceeded to rape the helpless man from behind.
This terrible thing happened in the Medical unit if you can believe it.
I believe it as I was there in the cell next door and I heard the screams and I saw the horrific shadow drama play out on the speckled wall in front of me as I lay weak and helpless on my cot.

Praying to God that the Guard would not come into my cell next.
I was lucky that night as it seemed that God was working that night at the Don - it was truly unfortunate he was on his break at the time the horrors were going on in the cell next to mine. I am however very grateful that he came back from his break when he did and that eventually the guard was caught doing something inappropriate and was punished by being suspended for two whole weeks with pay. Punishment can be really harsh sometimes eh?
It is also very harsh that God can not put a few shifts in at the West as they could really use him over there these days...

Anyways this was my rant and I am truly and really tired and sad and angry and still a little freaked out so goodnight world. God bless you all. Especially those people that we love to hate because they have committed some crime and gotten themselves locked up. You might not realize it but they need blessings just as much as we do.