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Protesters Confront Toronto Riot Police Ahead of G20 Summit

   Jim Randle | Toronto 26 June 2010

Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS

   A  protester  with  a  bandana  over  her face confronts a riot police
   line-up on Bay Street during demonstrations at the G8 and G20 Summits,
   Saturday, June 26, 2010 in Toronto.

   Protesters  in  Toronto  set  fire  to some police cars during a noisy
   march  near  the  site  of the G-20 summit Saturday. The violence took
   place as thousands of people complained about a variety of issues.
   A  column  of thick black smoke rose from the burning police cars in a
   chaotic  scene  that  included throngs of police in riot gear and many
   protesters.
   Toronto  Mayor  David Miller urged residents to leave the protest area
   and pleaded for calm. "We have thousands of people peaceably asserting
   their  democratic  right  to  speak  out and a relatively small group,
   probably a few hundred, mostly people who seem to not be from Toronto,
   come  here  on  all evidence, to commit deliberate acts of violence. I
   think every Torontonian should be outraged by that," he said.
   The mayor was interviewed by a Toronto television news station.
   This  is  the  most  intense  protest  so far associated with the G-20
   summit  in Toronto, but there have been a series of sometimes colorful
   marches, over several days.
   Marchers  have  been  complaining about everything from pay for public
   employees to expensive housing to the excesses of capitalism.
   Summit organizers have been so concerned about security that they have
   spent around $1 billion and brought in thousands of police from across
   Canada to strengthen the city and provincial police forces here.

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