G20 Police circle protesters at Queen & Spadina (2)

This is where it gets ugly... police rush in and grab protesters, unprovoked, and arrest them. I'm not sure if you can make it out in this video, but there was even a couple hugging each other, with cops all around them... till they got hauled off and arrested too.

Also notice cops carelessly tossing confiscated bikes on the corner of the street by the TD Bank. Once they cleared this crowd, they turned their attention to the crowd they were detaining on Spadina, north of Queen -- a crowd of passers-by, mostly -- the one they ended up holding for 4+ hours, in the heavy rain.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• G20
• Toronto
• Queen
• Spadina
• Police
• protest
• protester
• peaceful
• sunday
• 2010

[christhisis]

I was disgusted to watch this happen in my city. The police were nowhere to be found on Saturday and detaining regular people and peaceful protesters on Sunday.

In my opinion, they completely F'd this whole thing up. Shame on them.

[WickedLiquid]

This all would've been avoided if the G20 WAS NOT HELD IN A MAJOR CITY!

Haven't these World Leaders ever heard of Skype or any other video messaging program? THIS IS 2010, THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO HOLD A CONFERENCE BESIDES MEETING FACE TO FACE AND CAUSING A CITY TO BREAK OUT IN CHAOS.

But they don't give a shit about us, to them we're just ants. Well there are more ants than humans...

[Laeyto]

@PresidentialMoments You are a liar. The people did not stay dry; many were soaked and near hypothermic. The riots did not happen every day. The riots happened for one hour and thats when the police backed off. You clearly were not there, and you do not even understand what the G20 means, or what happened. You are a simple minded and a fool, and you need to educate yourself before ignorantly making comments about important events.

[PresidentialMoments]

@chadlen You really are one nutty mother fucker..

[chadlen]

@chadlen

why is 'PM's comment the first comment you read on here anyways? what the #%$@!

[chadlen]

@PresidentialMoments

you're a misinfo agent.

we know the tactic used at the toronto G20 and i know why your name had to have capital letters in it. agent provocateurs everywhere nowadays.

I REALLY WAS THERE. what you are doing is totally inhumane. 'you' sold your soul for the new world order, not us.

[vertikallimitz]

PM Your an ASSHOLE, you werent there, such a coward. I was one of the Indie media caught in the blockage, those caught were NOT violent, most just ambled, some even lived past Spadina. What a pathetic sack of oxygen you are.