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Turns out it wasn’t law enforcement brutality at all — not even close.

It was actually an officer who was brutalized with a boot to the temple — one of the many facts left out of the public flogging of Go Transit special constables who were merely affecting a routine arrest of a resisting suspect.

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But not much of this arrest of a man known to police has been presented factually.

“On Sunday March 11, 2018, two patrons at the Union Station GO bus terminal witnessed transit constables and Toronto police assaulting a man they identified as having mental health issues,” wrote activist Desmond Cole in a blog.

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The Newstalk 1010 host, who has not confirmed or denied a potential run at mayor this fall, also narrated a cellphone video captured by an on scene witness.

“Constables and Toronto Police violently restrain the man for over 30 minutes — two different officers use their knees to pin the man’s head and neck to the ground,” Cole wrote on Facebook.