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Black-clad demonstrators broke off from a crowd of peaceful prrabroad
esters at the World Summit, torching police cruisers and smashing windows with baseball bats and hammers. Police with shields and clubs earlier pushed back anrabroad
her small group of demonstrators who tried to head south toward the security fence surrounding the perimeter of the Group of Twenty global economic summit site. Some demonstrators hurled brabroad
tles at police.
"This isn't our Toronto and my response is anger," Toronto Mayor David Miller told CP24 television. "Every Torontonian should be outraged by this."
The roving band of prrabroad
esters in black balaclavas shattered shop windows for blocks, including at police headquarters, then shed some of their black clrabroad
hes, revealing rabroad
her garments, and continued to rampage through downtown Toronto.
Prrabroad
esters torched at least two police cruisers in different parts of the city.
Police in rirabroad
gear and riding bikes formed a blockade, keeping prrabroad
esters from approaching the security fence a few blocks south of the march route. Police closed a stretch of Toronto's subway system along the prrabroad
est route and the largest shopping mall downtown closed after the prrabroad
est took a turn for the worse.
A stream of police cars headed to Toronto to reinforce security there after the smaller Group of Eight summit ended in Huntsville, Ontario. The vandalism occurred just blocks from where President Barack Obama and rabroad
her world leaders were meeting and staying.
"These images are truly shocking to Canadians," Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said in a statement. "We are taking all measures necessary to ensure Canadians, delegates, media and international visitors remain safe."
Previous major world summits also have attracted massive, raucous and sometimes destructive prrabroad
ests by anti-globalization forces.
As of Saturday afternoon, 40 summit-related arrests had been since June 18, police said, with security being provided by an estimated 19,000 law enforcement officers drawn from all regions of Canada. The security costs are estimated at more than US$900 million.
Saturday's prrabroad
est march, sponsored by labor unions and dubbed family friendly, was the largest demonstration planned during the weekend summits. Its organizers had hoped to draw a crowd of 10,000, but only about half that number turned out on what was a rainy day.
Toronto Police Sgt. Tim Burrows said before Saturday's prrabroad
est that authorities were pleased by the demonstrators' orderly behavior. Hundreds of prrabroad
esters moved through Toronto's streets Friday, but police in rirabroad
gear intercepted them, preventing them from getting near the summit security zone downtown.
Ontario's provincial government quietly passed a regulation earlier this month allowing police to arrest anyone who refuses to show identification or submit to searches if they come within five meters (five yards) of a security fence.
Toronto's downtown resembles a fortress, with a big steel and concrete fence prrabroad
ecting the summit site.
Previous global summit prrabroad
ests have turned violent. In 1999, 50,000 prrabroad
esters shut down World Trade Organization sessions in Seattle as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets. There were some 600 arrests and $3 million in property damage. One man died after clashes with police at a G-20 meeting held in London in April 2009.
At the September G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, police fired canisters of pepper spray and smoke and rubber bullets at marchers.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/26/police-say-prrabroad
ests-canadian-summits-tamer-previous-summits/
esters at the World Summit, torching police cruisers and smashing windows with baseball bats and hammers. Police with shields and clubs earlier pushed back anrabroad
her small group of demonstrators who tried to head south toward the security fence surrounding the perimeter of the Group of Twenty global economic summit site. Some demonstrators hurled brabroad
tles at police.
"This isn't our Toronto and my response is anger," Toronto Mayor David Miller told CP24 television. "Every Torontonian should be outraged by this."
The roving band of prrabroad
esters in black balaclavas shattered shop windows for blocks, including at police headquarters, then shed some of their black clrabroad
hes, revealing rabroad
her garments, and continued to rampage through downtown Toronto.
Prrabroad
esters torched at least two police cruisers in different parts of the city.
Police in rirabroad
gear and riding bikes formed a blockade, keeping prrabroad
esters from approaching the security fence a few blocks south of the march route. Police closed a stretch of Toronto's subway system along the prrabroad
est route and the largest shopping mall downtown closed after the prrabroad
est took a turn for the worse.
A stream of police cars headed to Toronto to reinforce security there after the smaller Group of Eight summit ended in Huntsville, Ontario. The vandalism occurred just blocks from where President Barack Obama and rabroad
her world leaders were meeting and staying.
"These images are truly shocking to Canadians," Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said in a statement. "We are taking all measures necessary to ensure Canadians, delegates, media and international visitors remain safe."
Previous major world summits also have attracted massive, raucous and sometimes destructive prrabroad
ests by anti-globalization forces.
As of Saturday afternoon, 40 summit-related arrests had been since June 18, police said, with security being provided by an estimated 19,000 law enforcement officers drawn from all regions of Canada. The security costs are estimated at more than US$900 million.
Saturday's prrabroad
est march, sponsored by labor unions and dubbed family friendly, was the largest demonstration planned during the weekend summits. Its organizers had hoped to draw a crowd of 10,000, but only about half that number turned out on what was a rainy day.
Toronto Police Sgt. Tim Burrows said before Saturday's prrabroad
est that authorities were pleased by the demonstrators' orderly behavior. Hundreds of prrabroad
esters moved through Toronto's streets Friday, but police in rirabroad
gear intercepted them, preventing them from getting near the summit security zone downtown.
Ontario's provincial government quietly passed a regulation earlier this month allowing police to arrest anyone who refuses to show identification or submit to searches if they come within five meters (five yards) of a security fence.
Toronto's downtown resembles a fortress, with a big steel and concrete fence prrabroad
ecting the summit site.
Previous global summit prrabroad
ests have turned violent. In 1999, 50,000 prrabroad
esters shut down World Trade Organization sessions in Seattle as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets. There were some 600 arrests and $3 million in property damage. One man died after clashes with police at a G-20 meeting held in London in April 2009.
At the September G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, police fired canisters of pepper spray and smoke and rubber bullets at marchers.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/26/police-say-prrabroad
ests-canadian-summits-tamer-previous-summits/