G20 protest outside my window!

Over the course of an hour outside my building.

Crowd of protestors came south on Scott St and moved west on Front towards Yonge where they were faced by a line of police officers at the yellow perimeter. At one point is started pouring rain and half the protestors ran for cover. One protestor started to break apart the wooden fence surrounding the Sony Center, then gave up.

When the rain let up, the crowd moved south on Yonge and then turned east onto Esplanade. Soon after they cleared Scott St, one bus of police officers in riot gear arrived followed by two more busses and several more vans. The officers lined up blocking Esplanade and wave after wave they marched east towards the protestors. As one wave would march in, another wave would take their old line.

Soon the mounted unit showed up and more officers blocked off Front St at Scott St. Several Court Services vans showed up and lined up along Esplanade, but only a few protestors seemed to be arrested and taken away.

By 1 or 2am, most of the officers were relaxing on Scott St before getting called to get back on the bus and leave. Some officers stayed behind outside the Novotel into the night.

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Tags:

• G20
• 2010
• summit
• riot
• police
• toronto
• protest
• novotel
• yonge
• front
• esplanade