Toronto police pay $16.5m to protesters wrongfully held at 2010 G20 summit

It's not as if the police are paying anything. The city of Toronto will pay $16M in compensation resulting from the behavior of its police department.

The taxpayers of Toronto will pay.

Should take it out of Stephan Harper (et al.) pensions.

Funny (not really) that Bill Blair is the Minister of Public Safety now.

I was not surprised, but certainly disappointed, that this fact was not brought back to people's attention or even mentioned by the press when police brutality was at the centre of the news cycle.

By the way, there is a good documentary by CBC about the G20 summit fiasco and it is freely available on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX0BbLc_PIk

Personally, the thing I found most blood-boiling was when one of the persons the police had wrongfully arrested was saying that they are pressing charges against him, unlike most others who were released without charges, because they had used so much force during arrest that he was suffering from permanent injuries, so the police wanted to make it look like the arrest was justified.

Is 10 years the normal time it takes for such an outcome?