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🧵 Why are we suing the Calgary Police? It’s hard to describe what happens to you physiologically while being smeared in public by powerful people. It’s a mix of uncertainty, fear, frustration, rage, indignation, and anguish, on a thick layer of pity — for self and others you know are in it, too. 1/

We got arrested and split up. The student was handed directly from the police to EMS. Face bloodied after multiple officers witnessed my assaults, I was never even offered medical assistance. In the days to come, the police chief would tell everyone no injuries were reported. 3/

A weird thing happens when you go through something like that but powerful people say you didn’t. You watch reality get swallowed, digested, and reconstituted by power in real time. I think a lot more people can see that now, two years on. 4/

I’ve done everything to reconstruct the events that we know happened, that we all had injuries and medical records to show for. Nearly 40 freedom of information requests. Countless hours sifting through redacted documents. All the while watching power digesting, reconstituting our story. 5/