G20 Photos

This is all so goofy.

It is interesting how police raised their bikes, I wonder if this is actually a good technique of protecting themselves, never saw it done before.

Christ, these protesters all look so gross. Even rats groom themselves, so why can't these people.

Of course, if you had to work more than 40 hours a week, poor pay, and women had no suffrage, you'd be complaining about it all... funny thing is that that changed because of protests.

I'm not a protester, but from what I've seen so far down there and on the internet, if anything bad happens, it's because of the police. Also check out Toronto Star's article on the Miami Model that the police seem to be using.

The irony? We have to spend >1 billion dollars to protect our city from these losers trashing it.

Want an effective crowd control solution? Soap and a water canon, then watch them run.

"They are rich because we are poor" What an amazingly ignorant worldview.

These protests are pointless.

Nobody has the balls to make true sacrifices of their lifestyle to bring about true change so everybody can piss off as far as I'm concerned.

Corporations could be brought to their knees if people actually gave enough of a sh*t. But they don't. So nothing will change.

School children in the UK brought McDonald's to its knees and forced them to abandon styrofoam packaging around the f*cking globe. School children.

What do we have here? A bunch of clowns walking and complaining with their eyes on the wrong ball.

Oh well. Wake me when it's over.

Hey asshole, you know it's Saturday right now and this post clearly states "More G20 photos from yesterday's protests!", right?

Protests are fine. People with legitimate concerns should be able to have their voices heard. It's a shame that a small group ruins this for everyone else.

LOL at the girl in the Propagandhi shirt. Way to wear someone else's ideology to a protest.

Protesters only exist as the creation of media and government. Instead, these people are just like us, but are additionally acting on their sense of morality and fulfilling their democratic responsibilities. The people 'protesting' in the streets of Toronto should be applauded.

I'm so ashamed that people in their right mind would wake up one day and decide to misuse their civil rights and privileges...All these protesters are just a bunch of douchebags .....destroying and vandalizing someone's business and police vehicles won't make any change whatsoever,it's only gonna make things worse.I thought you people said it was gonna be a peaceful protest,where has the peace gone to?..I Feel the military should be brought to downtown Toronto maybe when they arrive,you people would behave cause you won't wanna be treated like the taliban....Jobless individuals

Really how much of all this was created by the paranoid cops and politicians taking the city away from it's rightful owners. The residents of Toronto. they just threw up fences shut the city down and took over. How is that good for the economy of Toronto or all of Ontario.
Yep some of those are professional troublemakers but many I would bet are just over taxed frustrated working stiff. Everyday folks pushed to the limit.
they are creating a police state in this country and here's the proof

Watching police cars set aflame on the local news network, I ask: is this the way a $1 billion plus on the summit is spent? With that kind of money directed to security, the downtown core should have been blanketed by police.

What I have seen today is a black eye for the city of Toronto.

And oh, factor in how business in downtown Toronto was under lockdown for days on end, just how much will the G-Summits cost the province and tax payers economically?

I want my money back for a full refund.

None of the comments I've read in this thread pay any mention to what the G20 leaders are addressing in their summit or about how the decisions made as a result of the summit will impact us, for better or worse. A disproportionate focus on the presence of protesters is deflecting media attention on what is actually happening - politicians from the most powerful states in the world are presently conducting discussions on how to steer the global political economy and they are doing so behind closed doors. What are the issues at stake? How do they affect us?

Many of the community and special interest groups who comprise the body of protesters are trying to draw attention to the fact that many important issues are dismissed and/or ignored by the G20 leaders. They are simply exercising their right to make these grievances known in a public forum. Yes, there are always factions who choose extreme and destructive means of making their voices heard, but it's important not to paint all "protesters" with the same brush. They are diverse in terms of their grievances and their means of expressing them.

Perhaps it would be more constructive to inform yourselves about what is happening behind closed doors rather than putting down those who have the guts to speak up and call attention to injustice.

the g20 summit and foreign delegates are not a threat to security. they didn't come here to smash storefronts or set cars ablaze. the protesters, vandals, and all the other degenerates causing destruction across the core are the threat to security. these extreme security measures and all the money that comes along with it can be attributed to protecting the city and foreign delegates from the animals who come to wreak havoc on the city then disappear once the damage is done. and if you are a protester or in support of them don't you dare say the money could be better spent, its your fault exorbitant amounts of money is being spent in the first place. and how is the repair for the damage going to be paid for? i suppose that money could be better spent too. wake up, get a damn clue, get a job, do something constructive instead of destructive.

I am watching the news right now and they are showing an individual on the hood and pummeling a police car. It's been a good 2 to 3 minutes he has been doing this. Did I mention during this time there was not one police officer in sight? I guess for that to happen it would actually cost the city $2 billion.

This government could not manage itself out of a wet paper bag and you are seeing that waste precipitate the need for the HST to compensate for such government incompetence.

That stupid fu*k jumping on that cop car is about to be taken down.

Unbeleivable what is going on in Toronto. These are not protesters. They are thugs. I commend the police for trying to keep up with these idiots.
Protesters are taking the real focus off the G20.

Watching from overseas, I cannot believe what is happening in Toronto. I've heard security has been tight long the week before, but had they not been cautious, would this have gotten even more out of hand? It makes me livid to see the streets being destroyed. This is the not the image Toronto needs.

Wow, I'm ashamed of some of the comments here - Were you cheering on the People's Liberation Army to crush the hunger protestors at Tinanaman Square?

I live and work in downtown Toronto and I'm ashamed that our Federal Government would expose my city to this in the first place for some western redneck ego, and I'm ashamed of my Provincial Government that it would suspend peoples basic civil liberty's and I am ashamed at both my local government and their police department that they would storm into people houses, without warrants, and arrest people, an or not allow non-violent people to simple stand on a street or a park to voice their dissent

I am for arresting anyone who causes violence, throw the book at them, but lets start throwing the book equally at corporations that pollute, bankers who steal, and politicians that lie and get us into wars we don't want

Is anyone who works at BP in the gulf in jail - NO?
Why?
We're too busy arresting kids that break glass windows
Wow
Wonder why they're so angry?

Food for thought

Wow what are people really trying to prove by smashing windows and burning cop cars??
Yeea the government spent 1.2 billion dollars on security for the G20 summit, spent something
Like million dollars on a fake lake to make the world leaders more comfortable. I say
Its a bunch of bullshit. Personally I think the government is getting what they deserve for spending
1.2 billion dollars. I don't agree that the cops have to risk there lives to stop this
Stupid bullshit I think the world leaders should be stopping this non sense violence!!

I have watched and read hours of coverage... but still haven't heard the reasons behind the anger. Sort of reminds me of the strike coverage last summer: lost of talk about pools closing and sick days but hard to find out the actual reasons behind the disagreement.

Maybe we all lose when the debate is focuses on whether a protest(er) is good or bad instead of the reasons the G20 draws so many people into the streets to protest?

I attended the G20 protest yesterday in an attempt to exercise my constitutional right to democratic process. I have a full time career and pay my taxes like every other citizen, and was there for nothing more than a peaceful march and protest. The tactics that I saw exercised by the police were nothing sort of disgusting and disturbing. I saw police officers inflict the type of violence on protestors (many of them non-confrontational - some holding flowers) that would not be out of place on the streets of a third world country. And then Bill Blair has the guts to stand in front of the world and deny it. It makes me sick.

Protesters: All the power to them, just as long as it's kept peaceful and law abiding. Their issues are valid. They need to be addressed. Getting our world leaders attention is one method of starting action. I get it. If I thought a protest would stop the HST, I'd be there too.

Police: They informed the public of the areas reserved for protest, many protesters challenged the perimiter the police setup. The police defended it. They also went after and arrested many of the following...

Thugs/Anarchists: What a bunch of narrow minded pinheads. Bent on destruction, the result is corporations will replace all that you destroyed. This will fill the coffers you so angrily lash out at. If companies are 'hit' by the costs, you can bet it will be passed on to the consumer. So - Way To Go Pinheads!

I agree. When I look at the pics and stories provided, on the surface it immediately provokes emotions of disgust and rage against the protestors. But I noticed that most of the pics I see are police intimidating and striking protestors that appear to be peaceful and scared (looking nothing like the ones shown to act violent). I have yet to see a photo, of one of those black dressed thugs assested. But, hey...when more people notice more curious details that don't add up to the stories told, I suspect we will get what we ask for. Afterall, the point of these stories and pics is to convince the public that these people are scum and deserve less than how we want to be treated as a human.

The right to protest outright squandering of public funds should be encouraged everywhere and at any time. However over recent years it's becomming more obvious that protesting is bothersome to the fat cat politician so they hiring goons to agitate the the protesters. If no problems occur they orchestrate them by smashing windows and abusing the orthority. Has anyone ever dug down to the roots of these agitators not merely by the name they go by on the arrest sheet but whom they're associated with. It might suprise and confuse the average citizen to learn that we're unknowingly supporting these anarchist through our tax dollars. If they really believe in what they're protesting about why are their faces covered. Secondly why do they need to destroy public property when these people have nothing to do with G8.
After seeing some of the delegated arriving for G8 I wondered why Jenny Craig wasn't there to greet them. Looks like they could use her help. Oh! Anything they proclaim as ground breaking decisions among them just remember meetings take place continually. This is just the Acadamy Awards segment everything was decided before the pomp and ceremony. Some food for thought.

I'm wondering how many people protesting actually votes when it's time to do so. Of course, it's more fun to sit in the streets and smoke weed than letting the leaders, elected democratically by voters, do their jobs. "They are rich because you're are poor". Get off your asses and get a job.. get a life while you're at it!

@Michael Right, time to take off your rose-colored glasses

Good to know I'm not the only one making assumptions.

We have been inculcated for our entire lives with a collective fantasy of rights and protections. Therefore, it is natural for us to be in denial.

The Bilderberg group run our NATO nations and maintain a facade that they are democracies. At this point, they feel there is no need to hide the fact that we live under a police state. The G20 was held in Toronto so that we would discover that we have no rights. The state probably hired the vandals so that they could impose more draconian controls. I watched the police do nothing to stop a police car from being torched. Today the police arbitrarily detained 200 peaceful people at Spadina and Queen, endangering the health of some.

We need to wake from our collective fantasy. The middle class worldwide is being deliberately wiped out. Millionnaires are only middle class! We will have all the human rights which LIVESTOCK enjoy once we live under the total control of a trillionnaire enslaving class.

June 27, 2010 at 9:05 pm | by Mark Rich

We have been inculcated for our entire lives with a collective fantasy of rights and protections. Therefore, it is natural for us to be in denial.

The Bilderberg group run our NATO nations and maintain a facade that they are democracies. At this point, they feel there is no need to hide the fact that we live under a police state. The G20 was held in Toronto so that we would discover that we have no rights. The state probably hired the vandals so that they could impose more draconian controls. I watched the police do nothing to stop a police car from being torched. Today the police arbitrarily detained 200 peaceful people at Spadina and Queen, endangering the health of some.

We need to wake from our collective fantasy. The middle class worldwide is being deliberately wiped out. Millionnaires are only middle class! We will have all the human rights which LIVESTOCK enjoy once we live under the total control of a trillionnaire enslaving class.

June 27, 2010 at 9:05 pm | by Mark Rich

You are one of those that like it when the goverment fucks you in the ass!....some of us did not go to work and made sure we are there....unlike other bitches that only know to bend over, grow some balls BITCH

Another commenter mentioned the Toronto Start article about the Miami Model of protest policing. Here is the article:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/828876--porter-when-police-stick-to-phony-script

I SENT IN THIS POST WITH MY OTHER POST AND IT HAS NOW BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO MARK RICH --VERY SUSPICIOUS FOR IT TO BE STOLLEN FROM ME!
We have been inculcated for our entire lives with a collective fantasy of rights and protections. Therefore, it is natural for us to be in denial.

The Bilderberg group run our NATO nations and maintain a facade that they are democracies. At this point, they feel there is no need to hide the fact that we live under a police state. The G20 was held in Toronto so that we would discover that we have no rights. The state probably hired the vandals so that they could impose more draconian controls. I watched the police do nothing to stop a police car from being torched. Today the police arbitrarily detained 200 peaceful people at Spadina and Queen, endangering the health of some.

We need to wake from our collective fantasy. The middle class worldwide is being deliberately wiped out. Millionnaires are only middle class! We will have all the human rights which LIVESTOCK enjoy once we live under the total control of a trillionnaire enslaving class.

June 27, 2010 at 9:05 pm | by Mark VEIL

MY POSTS WERE FALSELY ATTRIBUTED TO MARK RICH BY THIS SITE!

MY POSTS WERE FALSELY ATTRIBUTED TO MARK RICH BY THIS SITE!

MARK VEIL

I am sorry to know how badly you were treated. I am not expressing criticism against the police perse, but against those who determine how the police are to conduct themselves, as they follow directions and do as they are told by their superiors.

I believe that it is absolutely essential for people to get this story out, everyone.

The number of people we need to see in the streets in order to make this travesty cease is three million --the population of Toronto. That will cause McGuinty to review civil rights violations. Of course, three million Torontonians would be perfectly capable of coming out to protest in a completely peaceful manner and no police presence would even be necessary.

I am sorry to know how badly you were treated, Jack. I am not expressing criticism against the police perse, but against those who determine how the police are to conduct themselves, as they follow directions and do as they are told by their superiors.

I believe that it is absolutely essential for people to get this story out, everyone.

The number of people we need to see in the streets in order to make this travesty cease is three million --the population of Toronto. That will cause McGuinty to review civil rights violations. Of course, three million Torontonians would be perfectly capable of coming out to protest in a completely peaceful manner and no police presence would even be necessary.

It is very disturbing to know how good people were treated. My concern is with those who gave instructions to the police to abuse their powers, more than with the police, although the conduct of those who engaged in such treatment is deplorable.

We still need to have a proper protest march and the number of people needed is three million --the population of Toronto. Dalton McGuinty will have no difficulty seeing the importance of reviewing civil liberties when this happens.

We need to get word out to every person on the street of what occurred and the show of concern that is essential. I think that the singing street blog is overdue.

It is very disturbing to know how good people were treated. My concern is with those who gave instructions to the police to abuse their powers, more than with the police, although the conduct of those who engaged in such treatment is deplorable.

We still need to have a proper protest march and the number of people needed is three million --the population of Toronto. Dalton McGuinty will have no difficulty seeing the importance of reviewing civil liberties when this happens.

We need to get word out to every person on the street of what occurred and the show of concern that is essential. I think that the singing street blog is overdue.

You f*cking people believe that there are better things to do other than protest for our freedoms are the reason why our freedoms are slowly but surely being taken away from us.

People too lazy to be concerned of the bigger picture deserve to recieve what is coming to them; Poice State, no Freedom of Speech, and being ruled by corporate capitalists!!

F*ckin idiots. Open your eyes, Stop being so sheltered.