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rfmcdonaldI walked down on Yonge Street the day after the G20-related riot back in June, I suppose as a disaster tourist. The street looked fine until you got as far south as College, where the plywood began to appear.
The windows of the Starbucks at Yonge and College, naturally, were all smashed in.
The north face of the College Park complex at the same intersection, hosting a Tim Horton's at the corner and a Winners department store further on, also got its share of vandalism.
Here, too, on the Yonge Street face.
I saw a retweet from @seanwinslow testfying how the store's owner could be seen, almost in tears, outside of the broken windows of his shop.
I assume that this shop got attacked because it had something to do with jewelery, but I suspect I'm overdetermining the Black Bloc's thought processes.
By the time that I got down to Yonge and Queen Street, the police were present, perhaps mobilizing for the controversial mass arrest at Spadina later that afternoon, certainly maintaining a visible presence. Yonge below Queen looked fine, if empty.
The windows of the Starbucks at Yonge and College, naturally, were all smashed in.
The north face of the College Park complex at the same intersection, hosting a Tim Horton's at the corner and a Winners department store further on, also got its share of vandalism.
Here, too, on the Yonge Street face.
I saw a retweet from @seanwinslow testfying how the store's owner could be seen, almost in tears, outside of the broken windows of his shop.
I assume that this shop got attacked because it had something to do with jewelery, but I suspect I'm overdetermining the Black Bloc's thought processes.
By the time that I got down to Yonge and Queen Street, the police were present, perhaps mobilizing for the controversial mass arrest at Spadina later that afternoon, certainly maintaining a visible presence. Yonge below Queen looked fine, if empty.
