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Natalie Gray was apprehended by police during a demonstration at the evanescent detention midmost point in Toronto’sitting east cessation steady June 28. (Submitted by means of Natalie Gray)

A 20-year-old environmental activist from B.C. is suing the Toronto Police Service, claiming she was suit by two rubber bullets for the period of a G20 summit protest.

“I hit the ground. It’s hard to describe for what cause it feels getting ball,” before-mentioned Natalie Gray of Maple Ridge, B.C., on the point 40 kilometres east of Vancouver.

Gray was human being of about 150 protesters who marched on a police-approved passage to a former Toronto thin skin studio that was converted into a short-lived detention centre on June 28, the final daylight of the G20 meetings.

The protest and police reaction were captured on video by the media.

Half an hour after protesters arrived at the jail, police moved in. As the demonstrators were shouting their slogans, a pair of unmarked vans suddenly appeared and screeched to a stop.

A picture of Natalie Gray showing a wound on her flexure that she declared was from a rubber bullet. (Submitted by means of Natalie Gray)Two squads of plain-clothed officers leaped finished, moved into the crowd and pushed sum of two units juvenile people to the ground.

Some demonstrators panicked and ran, while others got angry and tried to hold their ground. Then two more police groups rushed in.

Fearing for her safety, Gray backed not present into disfavor Eastern Avenue. But she said she suddenly dictum a police officer drop to one knee — holding the biggest gun she had continually seen.

“And my friend hears a cop order to come from the posterior portion: ‘The girl by the blue hair, the girl with the blue hair.’ And that was when I got shot,” uttered Gray, who had two blue ponytails sprouting from the top of her head.

She reported the capital blast hit her in the chest, breaking the skin and knocking her to the surface of land. The second hit her in the left elbow, she declared, tearing on the farther side a chunk of skin.Natalie Gray shows a torture to her trunk that she uttered was also caused by means of a rubber bullet. (Submitted by Natalie Gray)

As she tried to win up, uniformed police moved in, slammed her face into the pavement and knelt on her posterior portion.

“I have never been so terrified in my animated existence,” she reported. “I closely irreclaimable control of my bladder and the officers are yelling at me, ‘Stop resisting, stop resisting.’ And I’m sententious precept, ‘I’hodge-podge not resisting. Please be gentle. Please be careful.’”

Gray was later charged with obstructing a peace officer, one of nearly 1,000 men arrested in the sight of or during the G20 acme.

Police claimed the shots were “muzzle blasts” — not hurtful blanks meant to scare protesters, not hurt them. They deny using india-rubber bullets.

But photographs of Gray’s wounds taken by every emergency space doctor show she was indeed injured in the chest and arm.

“It hurt so abundant when it first happened and then nothing. And I was fair-minded bland of paralyzed. But as soon in the same proportion that I got ball, in that place was an beyond belief amount of pain in my abdomen.”

Gray has hired high-profile human rights lawyer Clayton Ruby, who before-mentioned he’s launching a lawsuit against the police course of life.

Toronto lawyer David Midanik also declared he has a client who is suing, claiming he was shot in the face by a rubber bullet. There is also reported be a class-action suit in the works.

The police are advising anyone with each abuse allegation to file a public character with the Office of the Independent Police Review Director.

Carl Pettersson had each impressive weekend, arrival from near the cutline to a Canadian Open championship victory. (Dave Donnelly/CBC)

Carl Pettersson of Sweden captured a one-shot conquest at the Canadian Open on Sunday, one appointed time after setting a course and tournament record.

Pettersson shot 67 on Sunday to finish 14-under at St. George’s Golf and Country Club in Toronto and arrive his fourth PGA Tour right.

Dean Wilson came into the final perambulation four shots ahead of a large group of players and at one point Sunday had a five-shot lead over Pettersson.

Wilson shot 74 on the epoch, finishing a shot behind Pettersson conducive to the tournament.

Pettersson, who flirted with missing the cut put adhering Friday, turned it around on Saturday by a candid of 60. He narrowly missed a 30-foot putt that would have made him the fifth man in PGA Tour history to propel 59.

Pettersson turned the stimulate up without interruption Wilson by making consecutive birdies at Nos. 13-15 and cruised home from there.

He appeared headed for a two-shot gain the conquest heading to the final green, nevertheless he bogeyed the 18th before having an complaisant tap-in for the title.

He earns $918,000 US for the victory.

The low Canadian was 22-year-old Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C., who birdied the final two holes at his first PGA Tour event to shoot 71 and tie for 37th, at 5-under conducive to the week.

“I honorable wanted to come in and play well and represent Canada and resemblance that the Canadian Tour really does merit these exemptions and show them that we have power to play at this higher stage,” aforesaid Hadwin. “It was imaginary. A exalted week.”

Jon Mills of Oshawa, Ont., was 4-under, two shots ahead of experienced Stephen Ames of Calgary.

Briton Luke Donald was lonely in third at 12-under, with nine players shooting 10-under.

The sun came wanting and wind pointed up on the final day, making it tougher than it had been earlier in the week. It was the but make full during the tourney where the field averaged over equality.

“There was definitely more wind and [from] a slightly different direction,” aforesaid Donald. “It made it make merry a little bit different. I have in mind it made the par-5’s a little crumb longer. Probably not quite as many scoring opportunities.”

Wilson’s grip forward the lead started to slip at the 12th concavity, where he left a chip short and made bogey. He did the sort body on No. 14 — falling one stroke behind while Pettersson made a 25-footer as birdie.

The 40-year-old Wilson never recovered. He was given a late sponsor’s freedom from liability into the event — that he attributed in large ingredient to friend Mike Weir — and earned his highest perfect in succession tour since prepossessing the 2006 International in Japan.

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Guards and officials at a prison in arctic Mexico let inmates in a puzzle, lent them guns and put to hire them practice official vehicles to infer out drug-related killings, including the massacre of 17 lower classes last week, prosecutors declared Sunday.

Mexican attorney general spokesman Ricardo Najera, shown at a 2009 renovated talk, said Sunday that officials at a northern Mexican prison temporarily released inmates to carry gone out killings. (Alexandre Meneghini/Associated Press)After carrying out the killings the inmates would go to their cells, the attorney general officer’s office said in a discovery that was shocking even for a country fatigued by the agency of years of put drugs into violence and corruption.

“According to witnesses, the inmates were allowed to leave through authorization of the jail director … to carry out instructions for retaliate attacks using official vehicles and using guards’ weapons for executions,” counsel general spokesman Ricardo Najera said at a advice parley.

The director of the prison in Gomez Palacios in Durango state and three other officials were placed in a form of house arrest pending further exploration. No charges have yet been filed.

Prosecutors aforesaid the prison-based hit squad is suspected in three collective body of fluid matter shootings, including the July 18 make a run at on a litigant in the city of Torreon, that is near Gomez Palacios. In that incident, gunmen fired indiscriminately into a lower classes of mainly not old people in a rented hall, killing 17 people, including women.

Police found more than 120 bullet casings at the pageant, and Najera said tests matched those casings to four invasion rifles assigned to guards at the prison.

Similar ballistics tests linked the fire-arms to earlier killings at sum of two units bars in Torreon, the capital of northern Coahuila state, he said. At least 16 people were killed in those attacks on Feb. 1 and May 15, local media reported.

Najera blamed the killings on disputes betwixt emulous medicine cartels. “Unfortunately, the criminals also carried out cowardly killings of innocent civilians, only to return to their cells,” he said.

Coahuila and neighbouring Durango are amid several northern states that have seen a head in drug-related violence that authorities attribute to a fight between the Gulf cartel and its former enforcers, known being of the tender which the Zetas.

Interior Secretary Francisco Blake said the discovery “have power to only be seen as a wake-up call for decisions to address, once again, the state of deterioration in crowd topical law enforcement institutions … we cannot allow this kind of creature to happen again.”

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The leader of al-Qaeda’sitting shoot in North Africa says the group has killed a French engineer taken hostage in Niger in April.

In an audio message broadcast Sunday on Al-Jazeera, Abdelmalek Droukdel declared the group killed Michel Germaneau in retaliation for the killing of six al-Qaeda members in a recent raid by Mauritanian forces aided by the French army.

Germaneau, 78, was abducted April 22 in Niger and officials believed he was subsequently taken to Mali. Al-Qaeda demanded in several internet messages addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy that France hinder negotiate the release of the group’s prisoners in countries in the region.

“Sarkozy has [not solitary] failed to not parsimonious his compatriot in this failed effect, moreover he opened the doors of hell for himself and his populate,” Droukdel said.

“As a quick response to the despicable French do the duties of, we strengthen that we have being obliged killed hostage Germaneau in revenge on account of our six brothers who were killed in the treacherous movement,” he said.

French government officials would not immediately comment on Sunday’s message.

The precise circumstances of the recent militia raid in northwest Africa remain a art. In announcing the operation on Friday, the French Defence Ministry would not say when or where the raid took place.

The Spanish gazette El Pais and other media bear reported that the raid took place premature Thursday and was an essay to free the French hostage. But El Pais before-mentioned the troops did not find Germaneau, who had worked for Algeria’s oil industry.

The branch of the horror reticulated, known as “al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb,” had given France until Monday to help obtain the deliverance of its jailed members in the region, warning that the back worker would be executed if France failed to comply.

The group is also holding brace Spanish assist workers, Roque Pascual and Albert Vilalta, who were taken hostage in Mauritania in November.

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A small leaf distributed by the U.S. military to civilians in Logar province, east of Kabul, adhering Sunday shows an unidentified missing U.S. Navy sailor, with an occur of $20,000 US for information on his whereabouts. (Associated Press)

The Taliban now claims to bear abducted one U.S. Navy serviceman and killed another following each ambush in Afghanistan’sitting Logar province.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press on Sunday that the American was killed during a brief gunfight in an district of Logar province that is by means of insurgent have the direction of, at the same time that a other American was captured.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, declined to remark attached the report and would only say that a look for was continuing for the wanting Americans.

NATO has confirmed the two failed to return to a army compound in Kabul on Friday.

The U.S. soldierly has been broadcasting radio messages oblation $20,000 US for information leading to their safe go.

The Taliban has reportedly contacted Afghan officials, offering to exchange the body of the dead soldier for the release of several insurgents.

Afghan police said they saw the Americans driving in an armoured SUV, what one. failed to close up which time police tried to wave it down to make aware them of Taliban activity in the sunken space adjoining the basement.

The Americans went into a charity fair; as they drove away, they were ambushed, police aforesaid.

Their disappearance comes in the midst of warnings from Afghan security officials that Taliban insurgents are initiating a campaign of kidnappings and assassinations in response to the ongoing NATO surge.

Specialist Bowe Bergdahl of Hailey, Idaho, was captured by the Taliban in Paktika province in June 2009. He is the only known American in the Taliban’s hands and has appeared in videos posted attached Taliban websites.

With files from The Associated Press