Tommy Taylor writes an extensive and heartbreaking account of being arrested at the Esplanade while singing John Lennon's 'Give Peace a Chance', and his subsequent 23 hour detention at the Eastern Avenue Detention Centre. This account will chill you to the bone. Or make you cry. Or both.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=511491565&v=app_2347471856
An alternate address for the same post can be found here.
Journalists for Blog TO take some pictures of the Eastern Avenue Detention Centre. While the pictures are shocking, I've heard that the experience of detention is even worse than it looks, if that is possible. Although fruit and water were available, many accounts confirm that very little water and no fruit made it to prisoners.
http://www.blogto.com/city/2010/06/inside_the_g20_eastern_avenue_detention_centre/
A great website documenting a variety of different people's stories of arrest and detention. Some of these people were peaceful protesters. Other had absolutely nothing to do with the G20 but rather just had the bad fortune of living in downtown Toronto.
http://g20stories.wordpress.com/
Globe and Mail eye-witness account of police brutality and impunity.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/of-a-million-g20-stories-in-this-taken-city-this-was-mine/article1627063/
Torontoist article detailing eye-witness accounts of detention conditions:
http://torontoist.com/2010/06/g20_eastern_avenue_detention_centre.php
Guardian newspaper journalist Jesse Rosenfeld tells of being beaten and arrested by police:
http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/rabble-radio/2010/06/111-g20-and-journalists
Independent Journalist Amy Miller speaks out about detention and sexual harassment:
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/video/independent-journalist-amy-miller-violence-and-threats-against-women-detention-centre/3945
Amy's story, along with several other womens' are recounted here:
http://mostlywater.org/node/92025
Toronto Star interviews 20 people arrested during the Toronto G20:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/829921--i-will-not-forget-what-they-have-done-to-me?bn=1
CityTV Journalist Michael Talbot writes and documents his story of being detained in a G20 jail:
http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/80075--how-i-ended-up-in-a-g20-jail
Canadian Journalist Steve Paikin tweets the G20:
http://www.openfile.ca/blog/steve-paikin-tweets-g20-frontlines
Forum post about arrest and detention:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3322294
Joe Howell writes in The Varsity about his experience of being blocked in by riot police at Queen and Spadina for hours, despite the pouring rain:
http://thevarsity.ca/articles/31401
Another eye-witness account:
http://rabble.ca/babble/activism/my-experience-g20-detention-centre
Geoffrey Bercarich illegally arrested and detained tells his story:
http://www.ibiketo.ca/blog/2010/06/28/award-winning-bike-pirate-volunteer-arrested-during-g20
The account of Lacy MacAuley, from Washington who was arrested at the Prisoner Processing Centre.
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/story-my-arrest-detainment/3997
An early CTV account of several people's stories:
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100627/g20-arrested-accounts-100627/20100627/?hub=TorontoNewHome
A heartbreaking letter to the editor of the Hamilton Spectator, written by the parent of a pacifist protester who's father was on a policeman on G20 duty.
