Toronto G8&G20
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Police arrested nearly 500 people in connection with violent protests against the G20 summit in downtown Toronto Saturday, with more demonstrations planned for Sunday as leaders wrap up their meetings.
While the streets of Toronto were calm early Sunday morning, dozens of police officers headed out to their positions across the downtown core to prepare for the thousands more protesters expected for the last day of the summit.
As of 8 a.m. Sunday, the Integrated Security Unit announced that it had arrested 480 people in connection with Saturday's violence. Those arrested face a wide array of charges, from mischief and breach of the peace to assault, drug possession and weapons dangerous, reported CP24's Sue Sgambati from the temporary prisoner processing centre.
"I'm told that some of these people will be released from this facility, the people on the relatively more minor charge of breach of the peace, and others will be taken to the special G20 court that has been set up in North York," Sgambati told CTV News Channel Sunday morning. "So it's no rest for police today."
"For the most part, the majority of the protesters were peaceful and were trying to convey their message," said CP24's Gurdeep Ahluwalia. "But you did have that group of anarchists, that faction of anarchists within those groups, that sort of spoiled things for everyone. They convoluted the message and they were the ones who really caused a lot of the damage and vandalism that in a way is really rationalizing the billion dollar price tag for the summit."