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Anti-Olympics Rioters Smash Vancouver Store Windows

Posted by Raymond on February 14, 2010

From CBC News:

More than 200 masked protesters smashed windows, vandalized cars and newspaper boxes and intimidated pedestrians in downtown Vancouver Saturday morning before being confronted and dispersed by police in riot gear.

The anti-Olympics protesters, many dressed in black balaclavas and masks, and carrying a ladder, smashed up to three windows at the Hudson’s Bay store and one at the Toronto-Dominion Bank near the intersection of Granville and West Georgia streets.

The group also sprayed the windows with red paint, were involved in several confrontations with supporters of the Olympic Games, and threw marbles and spat at police before marching down West Georgia Street toward the Bayshore Hotel in Coal Harbour where the International Olympic Committee members are staying.

But as the marchers neared the hotel they were turned back by the Vancouver Police Department crowd control unit and the 2010 Integrated Security Unit at the Cardero Street intersection.

[Read more at CBC News]

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  • fabianramos

    rioters usually take it out on the wrong people, their businesses, security gaurds just doing their jobs, and so on. as “punk rock” as i might be, I think there are better ways

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/PDDVWRQVUPMKRGHURIEQVNYWHQ Sean

    so what are they actually protesting?

  • 5by5

    They're protesting the fact that many thousands of low income and homeless people were displaced for the sake of prettifying the games.

    Actually what is more amusing are the pictures I saw recently of the “arrest” of agent provocateurs (complete with the high & tight hair cuts, and super-fakey “anarchist” gear) in the crowd who wear the same cop-issued Vibram boots as the cops that were “arresting” them and the innocent protesters caught up in the violence manufactured by the undercover cops.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=8FTZUOq3z8I

    Seattle, Miami, Genoa… that pattern gets repeated so often, it's getting boring.

    So some of the union leaders who intended to march NON-violently, and weren't going to get caught up in that same crap again, outed these douchebags for the swine they are.

    Here's more on the recent incident:

    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/08/23/polic...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow

  • deadrevolution

    why does anyone want symbolic victories at this point? that's the best you get from this silly type of protest, sorry black blocs are so ten years ago

  • larmar

    This is crazy… It's no big deal for a homeless guy to sleep on a bench or in a tent on the other side of town while the Olympics are going on.

  • 5by5

    Dude. It's VANCOUVER. In WINTER.

    It could mean a death sentence when the temp drops.

    You shouldn't have to die just because some rich douche wants to see gay ice dancing.

    And they didn't move “just” the homeless people. They abolished low-income housing too.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/PDDVWRQVUPMKRGHURIEQVNYWHQ Sean

    it's always gonna suck to be poor,
    nothing will ever change that, especially not playing dress up and breaking windows.

  • GoodDoktorBad

    I find it remarkable the lengths people (cops in this case) will go to accomplish their ends. No wonder we don't trust cops or government when they behave like “Butch” in the Little Rascals or “Bluto” from Popeye. Dirty tricksters. Cops are not heroes any more than you can say Hitler was a nice guy simply because he may have had a few “tender moments” of mercy or benevolence. Of the cops I have known personally, I always got the impression of them leading double lives, conflicted between what they do when there on duty and there often sorted personal lives. While I'm sure that many cops start out with good intentions (not necessarily dreams of power, fear and respect), but the tyranny and necessity of keeping your job by unquestioningly following orders, remaining loyal to your cop buddy co-workers whom they count on to “back them up”, etc. tends to make “good intentions” moot.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, its no big deal to be swept aside like a piece of trash. Your compassion and intelligence is also “no big deal”. Moron!!

  • GoodDoktorBad

    Yeah, its no big deal to be swept aside like a piece of trash. Your compassion and intelligence is also “no big deal”. Moron!!