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Originally Posted by Taxi
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I highly doubt you were there. The St-roch neighboorhood was drenched in CS gas. We knew we were approaching the fence 10 blocks away, when we started getting itchy eyes and smelling pepper spray in the air. If you were there, youd know the extent to which the gas was used. It is laughable to say that you could have evaded the gas if you werent standing next to people throwing rocks. Its just flat out false.
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I was at the summit protests, but not consistently near the security perimeter -- I saw the road that was going down pretty fast. People at flashpoints had been asked to disperse an hour before the gas really started flying. "Please leave the area or we will be forced to use methods to make you disperse" is pretty straightforward to me. Here's how a short conversation with someone I met on the bus ride there went. (his name was Matt or some shit I think)
"So they told you all to leave or they'd gas you?"
"Told us twice actually"
"And you stayed after they said this why?"
"We didn't think they'd actually do it."
"People all around you were throwing shit at the fucking fence. What did you expect?"