#crowd-altercation

#crowd-altercation

A bomb threat was sent to Garda Headquarters, warning that a device would be detonated near a garda station if authorities acted heavily against fuel protesters.

Video footage captured a chaotic scene as a group of nearly a dozen people engaged in a violent brawl on Santa Monica Boulevard, with bystanders scrambling to avoid the conflict.

Garda public order units used pepper spray on a number of fuel protestors who refused to obey instructions to clear a route into the refinery. Major Garda reinforcements and Defence Forces units deployed on Saturday morning around Whitegate oil refinery which had been blockaded for four days by fuel protestors.

Accused gunman Amuri Greene was allegedly targeting the baby's rapper father, Jamari Patterson, when he fired into a crowd in Williamsburg on April 1, killing little Kaori Patterson-Moore.

Hundreds of gardaí have formed an effective ring of steel around the city centre. Protesters did not resist the move to free up the country's main thoroughfare.

Reifschneider said he tries to think about a moment when he helped someone, even if it's something mundane like pulling up behind a driver who ran out of gas. He's encouraged his fellow police officers to also reflect on a good deed.

Due to the changing security landscape in Toronto in recent weeks, including increased volatility and heightened fear in our communities, demonstrations moving into residential neighbourhoods in the Bathurst and Sheppard area presents an unacceptable risk to public safety.

The violent incident on April 3 started as an argument in front of 1585 Flatbush Ave. just before 2:30 a.m.

Officers were called to Clapham High Street on Tuesday evening and put a dispersal order in place to move the young people out of the area.