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Toronto Star:

Amy Miller, Montreal

Miller, an independent journalist, was on her way to the jail solidarity protest Sunday around noon with fellow journalist Adam MacIsaac. She stopped at Bloor and St. Thomas Sts. where she saw police officers searching a group of young people carrying backpacks. She says police attacked her.

"I was throttled at the neck and held down. Next thing you know I was being cuffed and put in one of the wagons." She says she was threatened and harassed by police at the Eastern Ave. detention centre. "I was told I was going to be raped, I was told I was going to be gangbanged, I was told that they were going to make sure that I was never going to want to act as a journalist again."

She also says she spoke to numerous young women who were strip-searched by male officers.

[I saw her making similar claims on CBC's The National tonight.]

Oh, what a load of codswollop.

What's this? Our friend Amy has a Twitter page?

There are no entries for Sunday the 27th; presumably the pigs pried the phone off our plucky princess.

# "Saturday Night Fever"=Jail Solidarity Party: All night dance party at detention center @ 629 Eastern Ave. starting at 12am #g20report #g20 7:26 PM Jun 26th via TweetDeck

# Riot cop line on queen continues to grow and pushing people hard east onto peter st. Crowd at 250 ppl riot cops same. #g20report 4:19 PM Jun 26th via txt

# Major running on qn n soho when naked guy dance in front of riot line.riotcops scaring the shit out of ppl- ppl yelling back getting ang ... 4:11 PM Jun 26th via txt

# Major running on qn n soho when naked guy dancing in front of riot line.riotcops scaring the shit out of ppl- ppl yelling back getting a ... 4:10 PM Jun 26th via txt

# "We are being herded like sheep by pigs!!" Queen n peters #g20report 4:04 PM Jun 26th via txt

# riot cops blocking west at queen n spadina. No one can pass. 150 ppl hanging out. #g20report 3:46 PM Jun 26th via txt

Free to tweet, free to tweet at last! Except that she was so traumatized that she must have forgotten about all that rape 'n' stuff. Here are her two last (and only) entries:

# Autobus parte pour Mtl lundi 4pm Dufferin Grove Park (dufferin, south of bloor) #g20report June-28-10 9:41:20 AM via txt

# Ppl who need rides to mtl bus leaving @4pm dufferin square park (dufferin, S of Bloor) #g20report June-28-10 9:39:16 AM via txt

I have no idea what an "independent journalist" is -- I guess it means that they're less adept at lying than their professional brethren .