From The Star

Paraders wear colourful costumes, extravagant headpieces and bright makeup during the 2015 Toronto Caribbean Carnival Parade

All IMAGES: COLE BURSTON/TORONTO STAR

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The Parade took place Saturday August 1st, 2015 @ Exhibition Place & Lakeshore Boulevard.

Over a million people attended the event.

The Caribbean Carnival Parade started at 9:30am and ended at 8pm.

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Police called after men seen snapping degrading photos at Carnival parade

By Wendy Gillis From Toronto Star
Parade dancer notifies police after seeing men “clearly filming girls’ butts” at Caribbean Carnival parade.

Alicia Rose was with the Louis Saldenah masquerade band, about to dance her way past the judges at Saturday’s Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival parade, when she noticed a cluster of men who were clearly not part of the group.

Disparagingly known amongst carnival participants as “stormers” — unwelcome people who elbow their way into the masquerade parade, typically without a costume — the four men were being repeatedly asked to leave by members of Saldenah, because the group didn’t want stragglers costing them points.

According to Rose, the men would briefly leave, only to return a few minutes later.

It was during one of their returns that a Saldenah group member made a disturbing observation: one of the men had what appeared to be a camera attached to his belt, and was “clearly filming girls’ butts,” Rose said.

Another man was holding a camera “and he was putting his hand down between girls’ legs, as they were dancing,” she said.

“We started yelling at them and they really didn’t do anything. They didn’t leave, they kind of laughed at us,” Rose said. “And then we just started pulling girls away from them, so that they wouldn’t be caught on camera.”

“It was upsetting, it was distracting from our celebration. It felt very disrespectful to the culture,” she said.

Rose has notified Toronto police about the incident and said two officers took a statement from her Sunday. She and others hope video of the men using the cameras surfaces, catching them in the act and aiding the investigation.

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