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Bobby66

A roving band of violent G20 protesters has taken over the streets of Toronto, setting fire to a police cruiser and smashing windows, as terrified people run for cover.

Wow, I still can't believe that its happening in peaceful Toronto, and on Friday I was just working there on queen st. And now the banks, cars, small stores are smashed and huge riot is breaking out right now.

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Torontoist and Toronto Star are blogging live, so every few minutes they update:
http://thestar.blogs.com/g20/2010/06...medium=twitter
http://torontoist.com/2010/06/live_g20_saturday.php

Also, the police cruiser on fire: http://twitpic.com/207lxz

Check out this as well: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23G20

Update: police car is on fire and they are doing nothing about it.
Update: the Easton Centre has been put on LOCKDOWN. Everyone has been forced to leave the mall while they close it up and protect the stores inside.

blackdragon · 06-26-2010 at 02:44 PM

nice.

harsshu · 06-26-2010 at 02:55 PM

oh wow...wast expection that with so much law enforcement all over the place

eullwm · 06-26-2010 at 03:01 PM

Because violent "protest" gets you places.

Idiots. They make themselves look terrible and they make the peaceful protesters look terrible by association.

Some fool had a sign saying "Revolution is the solution" with a picture of Mao on it, advocating the collapse of capitalism or some crap. These people are ridiculous.

Marlowe · 06-26-2010 at 03:24 PM

And this is still probably going to be less expensive and less damaging than the Olympics...

Bobby66 · 06-26-2010 at 03:31 PM

lol they are heading west towards ufot

**lorend** · 06-26-2010 at 04:01 PM

I'm amazed...and not in the good way.

Torontoist and Toronto Star are blogging live, so every few minutes they update:
http://thestar.blogs.com/g20/2010/06...medium=twitter
http://torontoist.com/2010/06/live_g20_saturday.php

Also, the police cruiser on fire: http://twitpic.com/207lxz

Check out this as well: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23G20

reeves · 06-26-2010 at 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by blackdragon

nice.

Please explain what part of this is nice.

anthony · 06-26-2010 at 04:11 PM

I don't see the point of rioting. They aren't being very productive.

**Chad** · 06-26-2010 at 04:11 PM

From what I heard on the radio, people dressed in black wearing masks are smashing every window they can down yonge street... and a police cruiser already set on fire. Bad!

anthony · 06-26-2010 at 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Chad

From what I heard on the radio, people dressed in black wearing masks are smashing every window they can down yonge street... and a police cruiser already set on fire. Bad!

Yeah it's pretty bad. I'm watching it on TV right now.

Bobby66 · 06-26-2010 at 04:28 PM

The people dressed in black played way to much grand theft auto.

_Luu_ · 06-26-2010 at 04:29 PM

Only in Canada. Hard to imagine the same thing happening if this summit was held somewhere in China.

adrian · 06-26-2010 at 04:31 PM

I think it was sort of imvited. I mean if officials disn't make such a HUGE issue of it before it even began, people wouldn't feel so eager to rise up to expectation. See olympics for an example of how ignoring a protest just allowed it to fizzle out.

I think the organizers/law enforcement should take some responsability for this.

Bobby66 · 06-26-2010 at 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by _Luu_

Only in Canada. Hard to imagine the same thing happening if this summit was held somewhere in China.

In china or the USA, if you trash and burn the police cruiser like that you would be shot.