Some people starting to move itemspic.twitter.com/P5rYpARAzd
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People would form human chains, police would break them uppic.twitter.com/UOGw7MXxjw
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Police tearing down tents, leading some away in handcuffspic.twitter.com/dD0ECrIdpr
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Police then worked their way through the exterior of the fence forcing bystanders to leave, several people arrested in this portion of the processpic.twitter.com/6WSd380Zxf
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For the most part all residents and supporters have been removed, city staff and police now surveying the areapic.twitter.com/SOTPv1yWcg
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A few more videos from this afternoon: I would say this was the moment right before things became very heated, people chanting “housing is a human right” moments before the police moved in to tear down the barricade they had set uppic.twitter.com/2N305HRIIm
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This was moments after, police tore through forcing people to move back, and farther towards the north end of the encampmentpic.twitter.com/s0yiH8aWrx
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This was the final push where the majority of people were removed from the encampment, you can hear several directions to the media to move back, despite being behind several rows of police officerspic.twitter.com/YBDD7XgYB5
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After everyone was removed, police then pushed the crowd further towards the top of the street, media were allowed to stay inside the enclosurepic.twitter.com/B8r2QPUXaW
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We heard reports of an officer who got hit with pepper spray, not clear if the man hunched over is that officer, can confirm this man was splashing water in his eyes trying to clean them outpic.twitter.com/A5l4QBycSs
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Some people remained in their tents after the first police pass through, officers then went back and made additional arrestspic.twitter.com/S19Pr1dL1h
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From Toronto Police re: arrests & charges @ Lamport Stadium “We will be issuing a news release later today once we have all the arrest information in but I can tell you that there were some criminal charges including for assault, but most were under the Trespass to Property Act”
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@ConsumerSOS who was along the other side of the police line as they moved through the encampmenthttps://twitter.com/ConsumerSOS/status/1417907863805173760 …
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Another take down and arrest, at one point police appear to use a baton on the individual’s back as they flip them over https://twitter.com/ConsumerSOS/status/1417940039774900230 …
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And now bins and heavy machinery brought in. Clean up crews work to clear the rest of the remaining items and debris from the areapic.twitter.com/NNjP9L4CWL
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Hearing reports things are escalating at 14th division where many people went who were at the evictions at Lamport Stadium, one contact told me pepper spray being used. We have a camera in the way for
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Video from 14th division:https://twitter.com/TorTinyShelters/status/1417975380007440384 …
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