{"id":4299,"date":"2010-06-26T21:34:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T01:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4299"},"modified":"2011-08-09T11:49:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T15:49:24","slug":"the-smell-of-burning-police-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/26\/the-smell-of-burning-police-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"The smell of burning police cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just when you think the anarchists have decided to let the government look like fools, they pull stuff like this, allowing the security forces to justify the billion+ they’ve spent on the G8\/G20 summit meetings:<\/p>\n

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Pic from Eric Squair<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Pic from Pete Forde<\/a>. The second police car in this photo also gets the warm<\/a> treatment<\/a> from the anarchists.<\/p>\n

For those not familiar with Toronto, this is approximately here:<\/p>\n

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Update<\/b>: Michael Coren<\/a> has a suggestion to get the police more involved in deterring the rioters:<\/p>\n

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An idea. Tell the cops that these anarchist criminals are actually confused, gentle Polish visitors trying to find help at an airport. Not only will deadly force ensue but the police will lie about it all after the fact.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Update, the second<\/b>: Another burning police car, further east at (I assume) Queen<\/font><\/strike> King<\/font><\/u> St. and Bay St.<\/p>\n

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Pic by Marissa Nelson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update, the third<\/b>: In spite of all the images available of burning or burnt-out police vehicles, the three above were the only ones. Rarely have so many twittered so much about so few . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just when you think the anarchists have decided to let the government look like fools, they pull stuff like this, allowing the security forces to justify the billion+ they’ve spent on the G8\/G20 summit meetings: Pic from Eric Squair. Pic from Pete Forde. The second police car in this photo also gets the warm treatment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28,53],"tags":[432,578,577,98,742,334,207],"class_list":["post-4299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","category-politics","tag-diplomacy","tag-g20","tag-nihilism","tag-police","tag-rioting","tag-security","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-17l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4299"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10608,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299\/revisions\/10608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}