Mr. Holland, I think that really sums it up. Five months later, I wouldn't change a paragraph, a word, or a comma of all of that. I think that sums up very accurately what I saw that night.
If one defines police brutality as the thoroughly unnecessary over-the-top implementation of violence to achieve something that otherwise could have been achieved without it, then I saw it that night. It was unnecessary. Much of what happened was unnecessary.
I think our friend down at the end of those tweets has asked an interesting question about whether or not the police may have overreacted on Saturday night because they were skittish about what happened during the day on Saturday. I think I'm on pretty solid ground in speaking for the vast majority of Canadians who would say that they have no time for those black bloc techniques, in which people come out of a crowd and start destroying property with pickaxes and that kind of thing.
No one has any time for that. But there is an open question as to whether or not police on occasion may have overreacted on Saturday night during peaceful protests because they had been spooked, for lack of a more technical term, by what had transpired earlier in the day.