Photographs by Alex Firmani / Shot In Vancouver Photography.
An anti-Olympics protest called the 2010 Heart Attack turned violent today in Vancouver as black-masked marchers clashed with over 200 police.
The protest started calmly at Terminal Station on Main street. The entire block was surrounded by police on bikes and in cars, both marked and unmarked.
Bike patrols accompanied the protesters down Main street and soon blocked traffic for the march.
The vandalism began with local newspaper boxes and this VANOC-marked vehicle.
The protest headed down Georgia street and left a wake of overturned newspaper boxes and traffic barriers.
A ladder was stolen from London Drugs.
The first windows were broken at the Hudson Bay Company.
The TD Bank on Georgia street was hit.
A VANOC-marked vehicle was told to quickly turn around as the marchers approach. The passenger continued to take photos.
A line of police on bicycles was positioned on Georgia street and Thurlow avenue but quickly fell back to their reinforced stand at Georgia and Denman.
The first clash between protesters and police.
The real violence erupted at the police stand on Denman.
Some sources say over a dozen arrests were made. The march regrouped briefly on Robson street but the violent aspect had either been quelled or removed from the scene.
