I grew up thinking of Canada as noble. I was proud to be Canadian. I see things like this & I feel my home has changed.

Thanks for posting this in it's untrimmed state.

Chairman Harper declares G20 Summit a complete success!

but regrets those 'pesky protesters'... our Great 'Leader' says they had no business being there in the first place!

Your comment at the end breaks my heart.

It's so sad. It's all so sad.

Wow. This is an important video. Thank you for posting it. I hope people keep sharing this one such that the authorities have to offer their justification for this violence against clearly unthreatening, peaceful protesters.

It's double edged sword though. How many people who see this video will be dissuaded from attending peaceful protests in the future?

I found the video from a nice post at Crooks & Liars. Worth checking out.

It looks to me the so called peaceful protesters were being smartasses in there own way getting closer and closer trying to intimidate the officers and all I saw was the cops having enough pushing them back by running at them scaring them using NO force. Plus I think they had, had enough with the other protesters who took out parts of downtown. I think in this case we may have to agree to disagree.

Does anyone know who gave the order for the first line of police to charge? The second line and mounted lines seem to follow somewhat unenthusiastically. Can anyone tell me if the first line is made up of Toronto police or out-of-towners?

I agree with Matt. Completely. There was no "force" used in this video. It's preventative measures to ensure there are no riots started and no property gets destroyed (at the expense of the taxpayer might I add).

Mr. Kenzie, panny and the others who lack any sort of understanding of history .... Please, all of you, just crawl back under the rocks from whence you came.
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"What saddens me is that I feel that I finally lost my war.

I am vetran of the cold war. Remember that old thing?

I was in the army for 7 years back then and served in Germany.

The whole thing was about keeping the communist hordes at bay so that we could live in a free country.

We abhored the communist regimes for their willingness to arrest without warrent anybody any time they pleased.

No freedom of movement.

Forced to carry and show ID at the whim of any and all police.

Yes we stood on guard for a free country so that these things would never happen here.

I guess we lost".

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Ms. Meghann Millard I wish to extend my sincere appreciation for your foresight in recording this ... Many Canadians have died in the service of their country just exactly to prevent this sort of conduct in other foreign countries and I still cry for them and I am crying now while writing this to you.

At present, the International community has been unable to formulate a universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition of terrorism. Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror), are perpetrated for an ideological goal, and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants (civilians).

That is what the police did here.

I tried hard to protect my country from the forces of state imposed terror and I, apparently have failed.

I should have tried harder.

Hey guys I was here, this was not the Queen and Spadina protesters who were blocked in and shown on tv. this was another one that turned into a protest because the police attacked first. Here is my account of it, PLEASE read it.

reddit.com/r/canada/comments/ckpgz/g20_what_the_media_chose_not_to_cover/

Matt and Panny, please look more carefully. One policeman is trying hard to use violence that he lunges at a protester who is already running away, but since the protester is desperately moving away from him, the policeman misses and stumbles to the ground. When a crowd has not made violent overtures, the use of violence as "preventative measures" is draconian