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Because I was there as a legal observer, I did not film protesters, which means I have to wait for somebody else to post footage to point you to.
In this case, it's from BirdChan so I'll post a nitter link and the content itself:
From Mohamed Salah (@msbnouni)
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Protestors sing hymns for a ceasefire and an end to the occupation at the Eaton Centre, downtown Toronto’s biggest shopping mal.
#Gaza #CeasefireNOW #ceasefireNowPermanently #Toronto #Canada
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https://nitter.net/msbnouni/status/1740913825686372704?t=cdupx-Tdr-gFXq4X6jzXtw&s=19
This incredible, beautiful, peaceful action was met with violence from the police and security. You can see the beginnings of that at the end of the video attached.
You can get a sense of the scale of the response from my photos from earlier this evening.
https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/111666488310477362
Three songs were supposed to be sung:
• Justice (Jennifer Castle)
• Ceasefire (adrienne maree brown)
• Nací en Palestina / I was born in Palestine (Emel Mathlouthi)
They didn't get to the third song.
(I'm going to add links and lyrics to the thread.)
A young woman from out of town who was there with friends to watch the Christmas tree (having nothing to do with the group) was elbowed in the face by either security or a cop during the utterly unnecessary fray. She's going to have a black eye tomorrow, along with her new opinion of cops.
Rather a LOT of bystanders seemed shocked to discover that cops/security are violent assholes. So, I guess there was that.