G20 900 arrest protest

The Toronto police made the biggest mass arrest in Canadian history, arresting 900 people, some innocent some not, during the G8/G20 summits in Toronto.

Protests were organized across the country June 30th and July 1st, and I made my way down to the Montreal noon time protest. Andrea came with me and met some friends there and they all marched while I ran around taking images.

There were approx 1400 people at the protest which was mainly peaceful and non eventful, other than a small scuffle at the start between some of the protesters as one guy tried to push his own cause, which was totally irrelevant to the reason the people were gathered.

The walk went from Square St-Louis (Sherbrooke metro area), down Sherbrooke street, up St-Laurent, down Mont-Royal and back up St-Denis to end at Laurier metro. Those are some pretty busy downtown streets in Montreal.

The cops were present, some at the front of the march, some along the sides and some in the back. The riot ready cops were all on side streets out of view of the crowd so as not to get them too pumped.

Here are a few images from the march, click on my FLICKR to see about 40 of them.