(Clearwisdom.net) In order to allow Hu Jintao and his retinue to see and hear overseas Falun Gong practitioners' appeal for the end to the persecution, on September 10, 2005, Toronto practitioners hung huge banners on a highway bridge that Hu's motorcade passed by on its way to Niagara Falls.
As soon as practitioners hung the banners, an Ontario Provincial Police van came over and a forty year-old officer told practitioners, "You can't hang the banner along the highway. It is illegal."
Practitioners told the officer that the Chinese President would pass by and we hoped that he could see our appeal for the end to the persecution. The officer came out the van and said, "If the banner just hangs from the edge of the bridge, then, no problem for that. You don't have to remove it."
A practitioner handed him a truth-clarification flyer and introduced another practitioner to him. The practitioner's mother was imprisoned in China simply because she wrote to the authorities and appealed on behalf of Falun Gong. She was tortured so badly that she was unable to walk or speak normally and she lost most of her memory. Upon listening to this, the officer was quite astonished and patted the practitioner and said, "Keep going."
At this point, another police van came. The officer got out of the vehicle and the first officer explained the situation to him. Practitioners also handed him truth-clarifying materials and explained the facts to him. When the second officer was about to leave, he said to practitioners, "Good luck!"
Shortly after, a third police officer came. He was the boss of the first officer, who greeted him and told him why the practitioners were there, and explained about the persecution suffered by the practitioner's mother. Practitioners also told him how Jiang Zemin has been sued in many countries for committing genocide and other crimes, and that he is now afraid of going abroad. Practitioners also told him that Bo Xilai was afraid to try to enter Canada, fearing arrest for his crimes in the persecution. The officer was very happy upon learning that and said a few words and left.
The first officer stayed with the practitioners until Hu's motorcade passed by.
