FlickR Album: Law Enforcement

These are a variety of pictures of law enforcement, including the Calgary Police Service, bylaw offiicers, and RCMP. Usually, they are officers attending an event I am photographing. In most cases, nothing much really happened with them, and they were just doing their job. A few pics are of arrests. Some are of police just having fun with everyone else at an event. Only a small minority are of police misconduct.

Men in Black

by Robert Thivierge
Men in Black
Protesters gathered outside the Telus Convention Centre in downtown Calgary on March 17, 2009 to protest a speach by George W. Bush inside. They were calling for Bush to be tried for war crimes and objected to his presence in Canada. The officers wee part of a large presence.

Denise rides off with cops

by Robert Thivierge
Denise rides off with cops
Protester Denise Ogonoski can be seen in the back seat, being taken away by police. She was taken in because she had climbed up a light pole to put up a Tibetan flag outside the Chinese consulate. One thing that concerned me after this happened, was I overheard another protester asking where Denise was taken, and the police officer didn't seem to know or care to find out.

Defiant protester escorted by police

by Robert Thivierge
Defiant protester escorted by police
Protester Denise Ogonoski had just gotten down from a light pole she used to display the Tibetan flag. She was being taken away by police.

Police arrest Aryan Guard supporter

by Robert Thivierge
Police arrest Aryan Guard supporter
This is one of the photos I took of a demonstration by a small group of Nazis (organized by the Aryan Guard) and a much larger group of anti-racists opposing the Nazis at Calgary's City Hall on Saturday, October 14, 2007. A guy with the Aryan Guard group was arrested after throwing a water bottle.

Racism Rally 2007-10-14 088

by Robert Thivierge
Racism Rally 2007-10-14 088
This is one of the photos I took of a demonstration by a small group of Nazis (organized by the Aryan Guard) and a much larger group of anti-racists opposing the Nazis at Calgary's City Hall on Saturday, October 14, 2007. They guy in white was with the racists, and was arrested for throwing a water bottle at an anti-racist who allegedly pulled his mask off.