Toronto Police Arrest Over 600 in Crackdown Outside G20 Summit Description: 20100628g20_vmc
Canadian police have arrested over 600 people in Toronto in a police crackdown on protests at the G20 summit. Riot police used batons, plastic bullets and tear gas for the first time in the city’s history. More than 19,000 security personnel were deployed in Toronto, and a nearly four-mile-long security wall was erected around the G20 summit site at the Toronto Convention Center. The security price tag for the summit is estimated at around $1 billion. Franklin Lopez of the Vancouver Media Co-op filed this report from the streets of Toronto. [includes rush transcript] CONTINUED http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/28/toronto_police_arrest_over_600_in [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
