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Toni Tetrault-Ridge says she was really upset when she heard Mayor John Tory and four city councillors suggest force was used by the special constables involved in last Friday’s 501 streetcar altercation.

“It appears that the people committing the crimes are starting to get more protection than the officers are,” she said Tuesday. “For anyone to attack the officers and their conduct without knowing the full story, that really, really upsets me.”

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She said the special constables are out there in the system trying to do their jobs to protect riders against violent people.

“We need officers (special constables) on the subway system,” she said.

Tetrault-Ridge should know.

She was the subject of a front page story in the Toronto Sun on Oct. 5, 1994 after she and a friend were the victims of what police called a racially-motivated swarming at Kennedy subway station at around 4 p.m.

At the time, Tetrault-Ridge, then 39, called it a “horror movie.”