Hillside Mall Undercover Security Incident: May 26 2019
Channel: THAW Victoria
Date: 2019-06-05

May 26 in the afternoon I came upon this scene.  In editing only blurred the two women's faces who were under attack.
To see two large men on top of a woman yelling "Help. I can't breathe!". Was intense.

The judgement that people held as thy were told she stole was scary and harsh.
This society creates unnecessary suffering. Creates the unemployed and the homeless than judges them when thy do what they need to to survive. I know folks steal, I been angered by my bike or trailer being stolen, I get it.
However, To chase and confine and hold down a person who stole is really sick!
Once you see who it is, you got their foto and the goods, why would you then feel the need to be a patriarchal bully and hold her down?
Sick power trip friends and community.
Not cool!  Just NO!
Its stuff! People steal to get food, to pay rent, to buy alcohol and drugs both pharmaceutical and street and again due to Criminalization and poverty people steal!
Have some analysis for gods sake!
People actively helped these two men whose ID they never even asked for, I was only one, to confine her.
People decided she was guilty and that justified this horrible behaviour.

Look at this tragic case of racist poor bashing in Colten Bouchie's story:
https://www.tvo.org/video/indigenous-perspective-for-colten-boushie-story
We  must look at  how we are treating folks similarly as citizens did in Germany before WW2.

Most Passers By had no idea what to do. Many have looks of horror on their faces.  The blonde woman in her 50's is very aggressive. She starts a fight with the young woman who fights back.
In editing I get to see and hear frame by frame.  The VICPD took way too long to gain control over the situation.
He ought to have asked her to back right away immediately. Instead he allows her to continue her aggressions with her body language, always moving towards the young woman not away.
The VICPD than shoves younger woman onto ground judging she was aggressor.
The blonde woman touched the young woman first.
IN the meantime, as the VICPD was distracted with this aggressive woman, the aggressive undercover gets his hands on the back of the woman neck (aggressive) and gets his body onto her back again and she try's to get him to back off. In that altercation he draws  her back and her foot almost throat kicks him.
This is not her fault.