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Outside the pen on Canning Street

Voluntary Slave | 04.07.2005 22:26 | G8 2005 | Repression | World

After cordoning part of the Carnival on Canning Street today, the police began to move fellow protestors, onlookers and press outside the cordon further and further away from the demonstrators. We ended up a few hundred yards away, right around the corner. Here is some of what we could see.

The crowd, about to be penned in
The crowd, about to be penned in

Anarchist flags wave above the police line
Anarchist flags wave above the police line

The middle cordon, seen from the outer cordon
The middle cordon, seen from the outer cordon

Police vans
Police vans

Moved further back, we caught a glimpse of riot cops
Moved further back, we caught a glimpse of riot cops

More riot cops
More riot cops

Arrested people driven out in the van
Arrested people driven out in the van


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