I went out the last couple days with my vizzcam to check out the G20 mania. Yesterday was pretty retarded. I felt like I was at a rural Ontario apple butter and cheese festival with a big shitty parade with no cool floats. Today was a little more eventful. I followed a pillar of billowing smoke in my car to Queen & Spadina where some cars were on fire and 2 drunk women riding electric wheelchairs fought while everyone chanted 'jerry, jerry'..
"fuck you Linda"I swung up to Queens park where a bazillion cops kicked some serious protester ass. Rubber bullets were flying as pony cops charged the crowd. They just kept forcing everyone north of the park until the crowd became a wandering mob worming through the streets eventually ending up at the perimeter of the summit barricade fence where the high pitched ring of the sound cannon immediately dispersed the crowd. It was kind of cool to see but also embarrassing to be around a lot of the shitty ignorant causers who kept yelling vague uninformed slogans like a high school spirit squad. I got some decent footage of some cop fights and the American Apparel mannequins covered in what smelled like human shit was pretty cool.
It was also really interesting to see so many cops. I often wonder why people would want to be a cop. Is it to get respect, for the $, the wheels, or because they watched too many police academy movies, or just cuz it's one of the few jobs where you can shit kick a hippie ? I gotta say though, some of those chick cops in riot gear looked pretty hott.
