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"The police bear the responsibility for what happened last night"? C'mon Judy. What a load of nonsense (to be polite about it). The cops made a choice not to repeat the security mistakes of past summits by going after the so-called "anarchists" in the midst of their little temper tantrum, thereby dispersing them further across the city and likely exacerbating the situation and rallying more idiots to the side of the brick-throwers. They made the right choice. If you want to give them credit for what "happened" last night, give them credit for the fact that what "happened" was relatively minor in the scheme of things. Some broken glass and a couple of burned cars. All mostly over within a very short period of time. No one was killed or even seriously injured in this "riot." If they had gone in there harder and started tasering and clubbing the violent protesters the situation would have been worse and people like you would be screaming bloody murder this morning about police brutality. But they didn't, so now you're accusing them of letting cars burn as a photo-op to prove their point that they are needed. What hypocrisy. They really can't win with you, can they? Well, actually, they ARE needed. Can you imagine how much worse this situation would have been without that large a police presence? I wish the G20 wasn't here. I wish we hadn't spent a billion dollars on security. And I'm sure there were a few cops on the beat last night who also acted less than perfectly. But: If we're willing to give the protesters the benefit of the doubt, and always be quick to point out that the vast majority of them were peaceful, and that it's just a few bad apples spoiling the party, why are we always equally quick to tar the police with such a large brush? Because it's knee jerk and popular and easy.