Facing mounting criticism for an alleged tolerance of a series of road-closing anti-Israel protests, Toronto police members have sparked renewed outrage thanks to a video showing them delivering coffee to said protestors.
Posted to social media platform ‘X’ at 2 p.m. on Saturday by Toronto lawyer and online commentator Caryma Sa’d, the video shows a Toronto police constable — his face concealed behind a black neck gaiter — delivering a cardboard urn of Tim Hortons coffee and a stack of cups — to anti-Israel protestors occupying the closed Avenue Road bridge over Highway 401.
The bridge, located within Toronto’s largest Jewish area, was the site of numerous demonstrations by anti-Israel activists.
That prompted Toronto police to close the bridge during the protests, prompting criticism of police kowtowing to protestors over enforcing the law.
Toronto police tweeted at 1:16 p.m. on Saturday that the bridge would against be closed, and that officers would be on scene to “keep demonstrators and passing traffic safe.”
We know what you're thinking. Free coffee? If these officers were really going to put their jobs (and justice) on the line, wouldn't they at least try to get some donuts, too?
Donuts or no donuts, a jury ruled the Tim Hortons policy just as innocent as it seems and decided that no bribery took place in the case of the two employees and their alleged unjustified firings. But, even after the 23-day trial that found the Tim Hortons owner free and clear, one of the two fired employees still wouldn't accept the verdict and, in 2008, she appealed for a new, $10 million trial, an appeal which was dismissed, according to a Times Colonist article
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