Toronto Police Chief Blair Needs to Step Down

This shit is dangerous, for the Police and for Toronto:

In his first day of public appearances after the G20 summit, Toronto’s police chief needed a police escort to enter his own reception. As angry protesters chanted “Shame!” and called for his resignation, Chief Bill Blair tipped his cap and smiled at the crowd of about 100 people on his way into a Pride Week event hosted by Toronto police.

The only way for a police force of 5,700 to police a population of 500 times its size, 2,500,000, is for the vast, vast majority of the population to trust the police force completely and accept its legitimacy. Lying to the public about what the law is:

Earlier in the day, Blair admitted there never was a five-metre rule allowing police to search and demand identification from anyone who strayed too close to the G20 security perimeter.

is so completely unacceptable for a city's top law enforcement officer that it should have instantly disqualified him from continuing to hold the post. Following that up with a painfully embarrasing news conference where siezed "weapons" were displayed, and even that being dishonest:

Chief Bill Blair, who told reporters the items were evidence of the protesters’ intent, singled out arrows covered in sports socks, which he said were designed to be dipped in a flammable liquid and set ablaze. However, the arrows belong to Brian Barrett, a 25-year-old landscaper who was heading to a role-playing fantasy game when he was stopped at Union Station on Saturday morning. Police took his jousting gear but let Mr. Barrett go, saying it was a case of bad timing. Police also displayed a crossbow and chainsaw seized in an incident on Friday that they said had no ties to the summit. When asked, Chief Blair acknowledged they were unrelated, but said “everything else” had been confiscated from demonstrators.

is just compounding credibility-sapping lies. Blair needs to go.