{"id":5870,"date":"2010-10-16T11:15:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T15:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5870"},"modified":"2011-05-15T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T16:00:30","slug":"officer-bubbles-sues-youtube-for-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/16\/officer-bubbles-sues-youtube-for-defamation\/","title":{"rendered":"“Officer Bubbles” sues YouTube for defamation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Globe and Mail<\/em><\/a> reports that police constable Adam Josephs has launched a suit against YouTube in an attempt to force them to divulge the identities of posters and commenters:<\/p>\n

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A Toronto police officer whose stiff upper lip made him an inadvertent YouTube sensation and a symbol of police heavy-handedness at the G20 protests has launched a $1.2-million defamation lawsuit against the website.<\/p>\n

Constable Adam Josephs was nicknamed \u201cOfficer Bubbles\u201d after a video surfaced of him online admonishing a young protester during the summit for blowing bubbles.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

The original video shows Constable Josephs and a number of other officers holding a police line near Queen Street West in front of a crowd of protesters, when a young woman begins blowing bubbles in front of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the bubble touches me, you’re going to be arrested for assault,\u201d he tells her sternly. When she questions him about the warning, he continues to warn her.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want to bait the police. You get that on me or that other officer and it gets in her eyes, it’s a detergent. You’ll be going into custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The video of “Officer Bubbles” intimidating the dangerous bubble-blower:<\/p>\n

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Update, 18 October<\/b>: By way of the Twitter feed of Colby Cosh<\/a>, here’s the link to the actual document<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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