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Search every verified Lisa Walter interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Lisa Walter has served as the secretary for the Western Dressage Association of Florida, where she described her role as keeping board meeting minutes and records from other events. She directed members to the association's website for access to board member lists, advisory board information, bylaws, and minutes, and encouraged them to contact board members with suggestions or to volunteer. In 2011, Walter spoke about her experience as an independent photojournalist covering the G20 protests in Toronto in 2010. She stated that she was arrested after she said "you're hurting him" to police who were taking down a colleague, and that an officer told her she was obstructing police. Walter said she was pushed to the ground by three officers, that one officer squeezed her handcuffs tightly and another crushed her glasses under his foot. She described being held at the Eastern Avenue Detention Center, where she said detainees were crowded into cages without clean water or adequate food, and that she experienced sexist taunts from officers.
“Hi, my name is Lisa Walter.”
“I'm the secretary for the Western Dressage Association of Florida.”
“I'm the one who keeps all the board meeting minutes and meetings from other events.”
“You can find those on our website at WDAFL and go under the About section there.”
“You'll see links to the board members, our advisory board, and the bylaws as well as the minutes.”
“Please feel free to contact any of us on the board for any suggestions or ideas or to volunteer.”
“So I appreciate it and happy writing.”
“My name is Lisa Walder I'm an independent photojournalist and I was covering the G20 Summit in Toronto for our Times magazine.”
“I found that one of the journalists that I had gone looking for was in the back of a police cruiser and he was looking pretty stunned... his hands were cuffed behind his back and he was in the back of a cruiser.”
“We thought initially that he had been beaten... I learned from the second journalist that in fact what had happened was that a number of folks from Quebec had been stopped by police and arrested as a group — and he had been tased.”
“Officers were not forthcoming; they wouldn't tell me who they had arrested or why... they directed me to call the G20 media office, and that person wasn't helpful either — they directed me to speak to the officers on the scene.”
“Suddenly there's four police officers on top of Ryan and I heard this screaming... they were obviously being quite rough with him and he couldn't have offered any resistance to that kind of takedown.”
“I said you're hurting him... and so then I was arrested also — one of the officers said that I was obstructing police.”
“One of them said 'is that tight enough for you' and then he squeezed the cuffs about as hard as they could go so it was cutting my wrist; my glasses had fallen and the officer standing to my left looked for my glasses and then stood up and crushed them under his foot.”
“I started to get kinds of sexist taunts about my physical appearance about whether they thought I was a man or I was a woman... there was this kind of unremitting banter directed at me that was quite harsh and very offensive and really humiliating.”
Independent journalist Lisa Walter speaks about her experience during the G20 protests in Toronto in 2010.
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