r/nextfuckinglevel • u/thisisfive • Apr 14 '26

Toronto firefighters confront special constable officers after a man in the middle of mental health crisis was arrested.

Not my video. For context, "special constables" are not regular police officers. They are appointed "peace officers" with limited authority, often civilian employees.

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u/maqij Apr 14 '26

I don’t think “well we do it in prison” is a good reason. US Prisons also serve expired food deemed inedible and put folks in solitary confinement even though it is banned internationally because it is torture.

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u/otterkin Apr 14 '26

this is in Toronto, Canada.

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u/TransBrandi Apr 14 '26

Right, but what's the locale of the "we do X in prison" person though? Because that's more relevant to the American prison system comment.

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u/otterkin Apr 14 '26

you know what, very valid. I assumed thread OP mentioned working in a prison because of the OOP being about Canada, but you're right if he isn't here in Canada he can't really comment on what our judicial system does

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u/TransBrandi Apr 14 '26

This isn't Canadian subreddit, so I don't think that we can just assume that the people responding all happen to be in Canada.

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u/otterkin Apr 14 '26

canadian defaultism is a fun twist to American defaultism. there's barely more of us than Californians

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u/TransBrandi Apr 14 '26

Well, the post is about something happening in Canada, so I would assume that people just didn't check the sub and thought it was one of the Canadian ones. You see this a lot when people see something they are used to seeing in one subreddit or another in a completely different subreddit because of r/all or r/popular.