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Sexual comments, threats and strip searches by male officers were among the allegations G20 detainees made against police Thursday.

Instead of making official complaints to police or the province’s Special Investigations Unit, the Toronto Community Mobilization Network (TCMN) announced there will be an “independent people’s investigation” that will hear testimony from complainants before deciding how to proceed.

Some women have expressed interest in a class-action lawsuit, TCMN member Farrah Miranda told reporters.

Among the video statements played at the morning press conference was one by anti-G20 activist Lacy MacAuley in Washington, D.C., who alleged that after she was detained, a Toronto Police officer “was using a variety of very, very gender-specific terms, very sexually charged terms.”

In another video, Amy Miller alleged police told her “they were going to make sure that I was never gonna want to act as a journalist again by making sure that I would be repeatedly raped while I was in jail.”

A written statement from another woman identified as Alison Peters said: “I was roughed up by the cops, had my hair pulled, and was thrown forcefully to the ground. I was called a bitch, and my breasts were grabbed by by-standing cops as they dragged me across the pavement.

“We were told to take our clothes off if we wanted to be taken seriously,” Peters said. “They made a joke about having a sexual threesome with me and a female officer.”

Toronto Police said complaints must be filed through the appropriate avenues — be it Toronto Police or the SIU — in order to be investigated.

“There isn’t a lot of faith in police, but we have faith in each other and we have faith in our communities coming together to share these stories, to collect this information and to decide what we’re going to do with it,” Miranda said.

In a press conference last month, chief Bill Blair said detainees at the Eastern Ave. detention centre were videotaped “every moment of their detention, save and except during their search, if they were searched.”

In one corner — Furious George Smitherman, the one pit bull that never got banned at Queen’s Park, and in the other — Angry Rob Ford, city council’s barking bulldog of taxpayer revolt.