MarcosSantiago
Well-known member
In 1991, Gwen Jacobs walked topless in downtown Guelph and was fined $75 for public indecency. 5 years later the charges were overturned and it was ruled that women could be topless in Ontario without qualifying as an indecent act.
If it is already in the books for so many years, how come we still have uninformed police officers?
What's the big deal anyway? We all have boobies, don't you know?
The CBC reports the following events...
"Three Kitchener, Ont., sisters are planning to file a formal complaint after they say they were stopped by a police officer for cycling topless.
Tameera, Nadia and Alysha Mohamed took off their shirts while riding their bikes in downtown Kitchener on Friday evening because of the heat. They say they received mostly positive reaction, until a police officer stopped them on Shanley Street.
"He said, 'Ladies, you need to put on some shirts,'" said Tameera Mohamed. "We said, 'No we don't ... it's our legal right in Ontario to be topless as women.'"
The officer said there had been complaints, according to Mohamed. She said the officer began backtracking once her sister, Alysha, began recording with her smartphone. The officer then denied having pulled them over for riding topless, before letting them continue their ride, Mohamed said.
"We went on our way and went straight to the police station to report it," she said.
The women are holding a rally in uptown Waterloo on Saturday to support the desexualizing of women's bodies. Shirts will be optional."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitch...opped-by-police-for-cycling-topless-1.3169479
If it is already in the books for so many years, how come we still have uninformed police officers?
What's the big deal anyway? We all have boobies, don't you know?
The CBC reports the following events...
"Three Kitchener, Ont., sisters are planning to file a formal complaint after they say they were stopped by a police officer for cycling topless.
Tameera, Nadia and Alysha Mohamed took off their shirts while riding their bikes in downtown Kitchener on Friday evening because of the heat. They say they received mostly positive reaction, until a police officer stopped them on Shanley Street.
"He said, 'Ladies, you need to put on some shirts,'" said Tameera Mohamed. "We said, 'No we don't ... it's our legal right in Ontario to be topless as women.'"
The officer said there had been complaints, according to Mohamed. She said the officer began backtracking once her sister, Alysha, began recording with her smartphone. The officer then denied having pulled them over for riding topless, before letting them continue their ride, Mohamed said.
"We went on our way and went straight to the police station to report it," she said.
The women are holding a rally in uptown Waterloo on Saturday to support the desexualizing of women's bodies. Shirts will be optional."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitch...opped-by-police-for-cycling-topless-1.3169479