Footage of the riot police making a chaotic retreat last night from Prince Edward station. These are regular commuters, not demonstrators, chanting "gangsters" at the police as they try to find an exitpic.twitter.com/tiI7NU9gWi
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Earlier that evening–a cop not wearing riot gear fires pepper spray at a bystander in a panic while trying to reach his colleagues who have retreated to a corner. The victim received immediate first aid and was in pain but okaypic.twitter.com/JoYTmFWXDB
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The incident kicked off just after 11pm last night, when police allegedly tackled and handcuffed a young man who showed signs of severe injury. Onlookers rushed up to call the press down into the station to witness the scene. The police and victim were surrounded and corneredpic.twitter.com/Se5bTioLvM
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The police ignores the press (and foreign bookmarking magnates) so they tend to surround everything in pestilential quantities. In this case, the overwhelming scrum of press and first aiders helped separate police from a very angry group of citizens in a tense situationpic.twitter.com/ZjMTf2lqcv
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