G20 Group Photo in Toronto – Raw Video

Raw video footage from Sunday’s meeting of the G20 group of industrialized nations in Toronto, Canada. As these heads of state and government had their pictures taken, Canadian police announced that more than 500 people were arrested in a crackdown on anarchist groups. The Guardian newspaper reported that the trouble was sparked when the anarchists broke away from the main peaceful protest by trade unions and other groups around the summit conference centre, and began smashing the windows of banks and chain stores and torching police patrol cars in the shopping and financial districts. They covered their faces, and used litter bins, poles and bricks to smash the facades of an Urban Outfitters, a branch of Scotia Bank and an Adidas store. Footage from the Canadian broadcaster CTV also showed them looting, and threatening photographers. Police armed with batons, tear gas, pepper spray and plastic bullets and mounted divisions were deployed to try to control the violence, according to news reports. Jesse Rosenfeld, a freelance journalist who has written for the Guardian’s Comment is Free website, was arrested and hit by police officers, according to a Canadian TV journalist who witnessed the arrest. Full story at www.guardian.co.uk