http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/06/26/adam-vaughan-warned-it-was-a-bad-idea/

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has something to answer for tonight. It is hard for this writer to escape the feeling that this summit was designed with every possible star aligned for ugliness to occur. The summit is held on a summer weekend, after university and high school exams are over; all the students are out and free and have time on their hands. Summer weather is perfect for a march. The summit takes place in the heart of Toronto: everybody in Canada has a friend in Toronto where they can stay during a protest.

And can we not say that assembling the greatest number of police in one spot in the history of Canada, and spending more on fences and security than Canada has ever spent before, has a provocative effect?

This writer is not condoning violence. I stood for an hour on the steps of Old City Hall today and looked down Bay Street at smoke and flames rising from burning police cars. I walked up Yonge and saw all the windows smashed. I saw the hundreds of black riot police massed at Queen’s Park. I saw the dozens of plainclothes police get out of unmarked cars and mix with the crowd, ready for trouble.

The city we know and cherish and love is on her knees tonight. There is nothing to cheer about. Many have something to answer for: the protesters, for behaving poorly, the media, for egging them on, and Mr. Harper, for choosing to have his summit at this place, at this time."

http://videosift.com/video/Eye-Witness-to-Graphitti-and-Car-Fires-Live-Leak



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Only published or personal queue videos may be flagged dead - ignoring dead request by NordlichReiter.

Fixed with new clip, thanks @NordlichReiter. *promote to make up for the fact the clip was stuck in queue.

This is an amazing clip actually - shows how the situation got so nasty - the police only had a light holding force in place, so they retreated until they could form a stronger line.

Unlike the suspicious fire on Queen Street (perhaps a longer video will shed more light on that one), this car was loaded with "explodables" such as ammunition of some nature, you can hear the explosions and as the woman so eloquently declares they're not THAT "stupid", knowing it's dangerous (or in her mind, a plant/trap).

Regardless, the crowd wisely gets the hell out.

By the way, you can still see the stain on the ground from that fire today - not surprisingly!

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Sunday, June 27th, 2010 12:28am PDT - promote requested by original submitter Krupo.

its what? ten seconds short of a *long tag ?

come on ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, like the fonze would of said. Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... WTf is ten seconds. long it duder.

This video has been flagged as being at least 10 minutes in length - declared long by BoneRemake.

surly these people would have lend by now that these idoic protests dont change annything .

pefect example milloins of people protested going to war with iraqu , changed absaluty nothing.

only way u can change things is if you A) have loads of money b) spend 30 years of your life working your way into goverment and some how dont get currupted.

protesting like this achives nothing.

G20 Toronto Black Block get green light to rampage?