The summit from the street, and the people who never dreamed it could happen to them. It’s been eight months since the G20 and the iconic images are still with us — burning police cars, rampaging mobs, the massive security presence. But that’s not the whole story of Toronto’s G20. On this edition of the Fifth Estate Gillian Findlay presents a revealing new street-level perspective of what happened when thousands of police were deployed in downtown Toronto and instructed to do what was necessary to secure the wall around the G20 Conference Centre. Exclusive eyewitness video obtained by the Fifth Estate brings to light startling new images captured on cell phones and minicams by the innocent bystanders who were swept up in the huge police dragnet during those three highly-charged days last June. In a rare television interview, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair explains why police took the actions they did.
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