This was our office building at 211 Yonge Street a few days before the G20 even started. Shortly after the first police cruiser was set on fire at King and Bay on Saturday, the angry mob moved up Yonge Street and past our building. We got to witness it first hand from the second storey window (our office is above the Nail Shoppe that you can see in the picture)
Fortunately (for us), at that point the mob was still only about 150 people of whom about 25 were “black bloc” protesters whose goal seemed to be to harm American/corporate businesses and banks, as well as jewellery stores apparently (something to do with “blood diamonds” we heard someone yell) They smashed the Starbucks across the street from us, then moved on north. There’s a video someone posted here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwzXRkFe9U4
the starbucks across from my office
I walked to work today and saw all of the destruction on Yonge between College and Adelaide, again mostly banks and American corporate businesses, no independent businesses seemed to be harmed except for two jewellery stores. It was all very bizarre.
