Videos of the G20 O'Canada protest and police rush

Hilarious. Impeccable timing on the part of the cops. Who stands on guard for thee now?! The cops, apparently.

I don't get the outrage about this particular incident. I saw no violence. The police ran towards the crowd to move them back. As the crowd started to move, the police let off without making contact. Even the protesters sitting in front of the larger group got away with what looked like a bit of a push from the police (though it appears one cop did take a tumble in the process). Yeah, I'm sure it was intimidating, but it wasn't actually violent.

Do people expect that singing O Canada exempts a crowd from the authority of the police? At least they let them finish. Frankly, the police looked more respectful of the anthem then some of the protesters in the second video.

Now, was the police justified in trying to move this crowd of protesters back? No clue. The videos provide absolutely no context. Even if they did, it probably wouldn't be possible for us to judge.

The police were most definitely quite heavy-handed at times this weekend, but their job wasn't easy. I do hope that all aspects of the summit and its security will be reviewed, so that we can get some real answers.

There is no other side of the debate. Who is arguing that peaceful protesters singing or sitting down is a provocation for police to charge into the crowd with riot shields and batons? Nobody is arguing that.

Are you journalists? Or is your mission to split the difference between common sense and what the corporatocracy wants you to think?

Stop 'balancing' things that nobody needs to see balanced. The police handled this particular situation all wrong, they overstepped big-time, and it's all on tape.

Sometimes journalism is just about calling what's plainly in front of your face, guys. Stop shrinking away from your duty which is to report the truth, no?

This was very typical behaviour by the police all weekend long. Intimidating a peaceful group of people, lawfully assembled and practicing their right to free speech. Meanwhile, when people were smashing cop cars and window store fronts, they sat back and did nothing. Seems to me like our police force is afraid to get hurt and so it goes after the people least likely to resist. How brave and courageous. From all the people I've spoken to this weekend, the Toronto Police force has lost huge amounts of respect from the public and will need time and a lot of effort to make it back up.

But for the horses, this looked a lot like the charge of the Cossacks in Dr. Zhivago.

Hilarious!!! Cops are so awesome. They scattered the crowd quickly and easily, and with no violence. As to the asshats blocking the street, singing off key and behaving like nuisances, they deserved to be rushed.

Uh...maybe playing devil's advocate here, but we don't exactly have a great view of what the crowd was doing (besides singing). Isn't it possible the police spotted someone in the crowd the appeared as though s/he was about to incite violence or something similar?

This lacks context. As I understand it the police had been calling for the crowd to diperse from the area for some time. The police ran at the crowd and pushed a little those that were not leaving. The police were in a difficult position all weekend, damned if they do, damned if they don't. I think they performed well as a whole and did they job they are paid to do as best they could. This was nothing like BC or Seattle.

I will not be surprised when Canadians find out that it was the police themselves that torched their cruisers. Watch the video's of the supposed "black bloc" protesters celebrating rather comfortably while they torched the car. There was no fear of arrest, they were not looking around to see if the cops were coming towards them, nothing at all. Ontario 2007, Pittsburgh 2009, and in Seattle in 1999 were all the same, undercover police officers inciting violence to justify the beating that always ensues. It's a plan executed by design.

I hear alot of people saying things like why don't they hold these meetings in private or on a military base, but that is totally against the objective of these meetings. They need a public imagine, but with that public image comes the ability for average wage earners to turn out and protest them. The protests are usually peaceful, but if the media was to show 10,000+ peaceful protesters, it might actually inspire more people to get involved or at least figure out what the G20/WTO protests are all about and our world leaders can't have that. So they make sure that no matter how peaceful the protests are, there will always be some level of violence (more times that not incited by an agent-provocateur), allowing them to discredit the message before it even gets out, and the main stream media does their job by showing the images of police cars burning instead of trying to understand the message. They all play their parts and the sheeple watching on TV say exactly what they want their followers to say, "poor police officers, damn hippies they get what they deserve".

This is how the NWO crowd has been controlling the message for the past 15 years. You would think by now people would start to catch on to the games they play. How hypocritical of them to hold a meeting where they decide to cut all deficits in half in 3 years, when they just spent over billion dollars protecting their scared arses.

in all fairness, they were pretty off key.

It looks like cops have infiltrated the comments section of BlogTo. Higly suspicious pro police state posts here.