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National Post reporter Kenyon Wallace spoke with John Pruyn. Read his report on

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“The police came up to us and said, ‘Move!’ so I tried to get up. I fell back down and my daughter yelled out, ‘Give him time. He’s an amputee.’ I guess the police thought I was taking too long … then all of a sudden the police were on top of me.”

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Meet John Pruyn, a 57-year-old resident of Thorold, Ont., who lost his leg in a farming accident 17 years ago.

During the G20 summit, he was sitting at Queen’s Park with his daughter when police officers dragged him up, ripped off his prosthetic leg and threw him in jail, according to the online news site Niagara At Large:

“Accusing him of resisting arrest, they pulled his walking sticks away from him, tied his hands behind his back and ripped off his prosthetic leg. Then they told him to get up and hop, and when he said he couldn’t, they dragged him across the pavement, tearing skin off his elbows, with his hands still tied behind his back. His glasses were knocked off as they continued to accuse him of resisting arrest and of being a ‘spitter,’ something he said he did not do.”

that he spent more than 27 hours in detention. The story is all over Twitter and Facebook, prompting an “

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“How could large numbers of Canadians turn a blind eye to this terrible story and still cling to the opinion that authorities acted responsibly on that dreadful weekend – or, worse, that merely by being on the scene everyone present was ‘asking for it’?”

“As a U.S. citizen i was appalled to read what happened to this man. We heard nothing of this here in Texas. This is not the image we hold of our neighbors to the north. Quite the opposite. Stick to your guns.”

“we can never allow this to happen again in our country.”

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