This video clip describes the government sponsored provocateur group “The Black Bloc” (spelled in this video “The Black Block”) rioting in the streets, smashing windows, and setting fire to police cars on the streets of Toronto for an hour and a half while police only watched from a distance during the June 2010 Toronto G20 economic summit.


This video is a part of the article A Summary of Political Activism Issues.

From the video’s YouTube page:

A photo Journalist describes his experience following the black block as they rampage through the streets of Toronto during the G20 Summit.

20,000 police and security officials and a $1 billion security budget were not enough to stop 75-100 black block anarchists from smashing windows and torching police cars during a 1.5 hour rampage.  The Black Block were able to rampage through the street for 24 blocks until they reached the ‘official protest zone’ where they quickly changed clothes dispersed through the crowd of peaceful protesters and then left the site.

The police were fully aware of the rampage and watched the black block from a distance at a number of locations.  It wasn’t until they had dispersed into a crowd of peaceful protesters who thought that they were in a sanctioned area that the police took action beating innocent people with batons and spraying them with pepper spray.

Why was this allowed to happen?  Police abandoned police cars at Bay and King when they didn’t need to, why?  Was this allowed to happen so the Harper government could justify an outrageous security bill when there was no credible terrorist threat (according to CSIS)?  Who led this group of vandals?  Were they infiltrated by government paid provocateurs as was the case in Montebello where police with masks and rocks attacked their own riot squad?

For more information about this incident, see the article Peaceful Protesters Attacked, Arrested While Cop-Car Arsonists Left Alone.

Also see the videos Seattle WTO Riots: Problem, Reaction, Solution, and Behind the Big News: Infiltration of the Anti-WTO Movement.