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My Pictures From the Tamil Protest on the Gardiner Expressway

by John Laforet
posted on May 11th, 2009 at 09:26:14 am

I’m going to comment later. I’m actually working on that next. But I wanted to share some of the pictures I took before my camera died and I got so busy with twitter that I stopped taking pics of my surroundings. I am not a photographer by any stretch of the imagination, and was using a digital camera that is far from professional. Same goes for the Motorola Q9. 

The View From My Phone

My primary objective was to involve myself in the protest and twitter what was happening to folks who were following the event on the interweb. I did so using my phone and moved progressively from well behind police, to the front row, with about three feet between me and an Officer in riot gear. I thought to help put that part in context a bit, I’d give you the view my phone had when held in the ‘twitter position’.

 

This picture is of a woman sitting in front of a Toronto Police Officer at the front line of the protest facing East in the Westbound lane (the direction the crowd was mostly facing)

 

This was my view of the ground when she left. The crowd was good at not ceding space by moving up as folks shuffled in and out. For about half an hour this was my view primary when I wrote.  

 

willow movie download I noticed these pretty early and hoped none would be used on protesters. 

But Before I got There…

 

This was shot from the East sidewalk across Spadina from the off ramp. It was here I noticed the thirty or so officers who were lining the raised street car line were not stopping additional people from heading up on the Gardiner. 

This is a shot that shows folks walking up the ramp, with the Police looking on. 
This is a shot from the ramp, once I decided to head up through the bars you can see the riot police. 
Some of the protesters – This was shot from the ramp. 
Some of the protesters – This was shot from the ramp. 
Some of the protesters – This was shot from the ramp. 
I am now on the Gardiner’s westbound lanes facing East. 
A view of the protesters and riot police – facing East. 
A view of the protesters and riot police – facing East. 
A view of the protesters and riot police – facing East. 


 

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