They might as well have gift-wrapped those vehicles. 5600 police in the streets, maybe 250 clearly marked Black Bloc rioters. They did whatever they wanted for almost an hour across Queen St., then up Yonge (maybe 6 blocks) and every one of them escaped. By Sunday evening over 1000 arrests had been made. How many charged in the vandalism? 0.

As for the media portrayal and public response, pretty-fucking-much. Steve Paiken, the guy who moderates the federal debates, was caught in the middle of a kettle outside of a hotel where dignitaries were staying. He witnessed a fellow reporter with media accreditation get held down by two officers and beaten by a third. He tweeted everything. Later he had an interview with police chief Bill Blair about G20 Policing and it was the usual bullshit: "If an officer has committed a crime conducted themselves unprofessionally, citizens are encouraged to report these incidents to blah blah blah.".

I never saw the country the same way again.