It's 820 pm and the police arer throwing tear gas down the stairs at the bottom floor of CMAQ

It's 830 pm on the second day of action against the FTAA and the streets around the CMAQ are filled with tear gas as nonviolent protestors are being excessively gassed for no reason whatsoever. I don't understand this. For the past two days now I have witnessedd well over a dozen skermishes between police and protestors and they all start the same way. The crowd steps up or peacefully sits down, the police start volleying tear gas, then the black block jumps in , as police for the protestors, drawing the fire away from those who are suffering from trauma. There have been reports that the black block members at the end of Cote d' Abraham where it meets the highway have started throwing molotovs at the police. This seems to have happened just moments after the death of an unamed protestor came in. It looks as if the Black Block Found out first. I have just been informed that the front of the Media Center has been turned into a triage unit and writing this article doesn't seem very important. If ther is anything to be said it is that if it werre not for the Black block we would all be in a world of shit. the police are not the good guys, they are not doing their job, someone has just brought in a seventh month old child that is suffering from tear gas. This now a fucking war.