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This is just ridiculous. Picture at the link.
http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/cbc-article.aspx?cp-documentid=23452903
Anti-Olympics rioters smash store windows
http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/cbc-article.aspx?cp-documentid=23452903
Anti-Olympics rioters smash store windows
A group of 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 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.
The protesters were also involved in several confrontations with supporters of the Olympic Games.
At least one protester was arrested and at one point part of the group was encircled by police at the intersection of the Robson and Jervis Streets in the downtown area.
But by noon, the rest of the protesters had been largely dispersed by police, although some of the protesters said they planned to regroup later in the day.
Meanwhile Translink, the Vancouver transit agency, said it was forced to close the Lions Gate Bridge to traffic in both directions because of a serious accident, but the bridge was reopened at 11:30 a.m. PT.