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- Andrew_D0
Police arrest dozens more in connection with G20 riots
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopSto…
"Our officers are out pro-actively looking for anybody with criminal intent," said Const. Samantha Nulle. "Today they located a large number of people, they intercepted them and they did locate a number of street weapons on them."
- street weapons?prophet
- and how do you define criminal intent.... I thought criminal ACTIONS were why you arrest people...vaxorcist
- so do you arrest the people after they blow up a building? or detain them afterwards when they ditch the scene?megE
- "The group was chanting "peaceful protest, peaceful protest," when police moved into the crowd, reported CTV's Lisa LaFlamme."xcarlx
- mg330
Here's a good question: WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE PEOPLE EVEN PROTESTING?
And are they so ignorant that they're unable to realize that fucking up someone else's city accomplishes nothing? Probably just a bunch of unemployed morons.
- meok0
- meok0
The show must go on.
- meok0
- Andrew_D0
To be fair, it wasn't just my neighborhood, Yonge St. got pretty fucked up as well. The media are showing these pic's because that's where the cop cars were set a blaze, obviously.
We should be pissed at these people, though. I'm all for non-violent protest, but this minority ruined it for everyone and helped to justify the ridiculous price tag of security for this event.
Whoever thought it was a good idea to hold this conference in the most densely populated part of the country should be fired. They should have stayed in Huntsville, it would have been better contained.
- agree.
a military base would be better - but nooh they wanted to be close to the people.alicetheblue
- agree.
- Andrew_D0
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."
- megE0
- agree, meg.
- with EVERYONE taking pics - should help to identify them.
alicetheblue - Seriously, what a bunch of assholes.Andrew_D
- No monday coffee? This is not happening, this is NOT happening.
*curls in fetal positionETM - it's just a fuckin starbuckspizzafire
- agree, meg.
- lowimpakt0
but at least they have lots of shiny new toys
- They could have got cooler boots, though. The ones they glot look like bricks. ¬_¬Continuity
- lowimpakt0
someone needed to justify their insane invoice
- georgesIII0
the media will only show the violent black blocks,
no attention about the peaceful protesters whom actually have a message,
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message of peaceful protesters:
please G20 governance,
stop messing with the lives of billions of people just for profit and war,
stop giving more respect to corporations then normal individuals,
stop aiding those same corporations rape the resources of this planets while pretending we (the individuals) should get the bill
all legit messages,how much did they spend in security this time, like a billions dollar,
yet they leave an abandoned police chaser in the middle of a square so masked black block could burn it.MSM rejoices,
- lowimpakt0
what % of the protestors were violent?
it all looks tame to me
- Andrew_D0
There's a bunch more in here:
- Andrew_D0
- oi, kant !mikotondria3
- < punk rockmonNom
- neck tattoo = you will get caughtspot13
- I smell a burning PSBmonospaced