Mistakes Were Made in G20 Chaos: Police Chief

Toronto's top cop says his officers were ill-equipped to handle the challenges that arose during protests held a year ago this weekend.

Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair admits in a just-released report that police weren't trained properly to deal with the chaos that unfurled during the G20 summit last year in the Ontario capital. Blair said the force didn't anticipate the intensity with which Black Bloc anarchists struck downtown Toronto, and were left unsure of how to handle the aftermath. Further, communications between senior supervisors fell apart as concerned junior officers flooded radio channels that they were supposed to keep off of. The report follows an announcement this week that the Toronto police will never use the “kettling” tactic for crowd control again, which the report says they used incorrectly during the summit because police did not provide a means for protesters to escape the walls of police closing in on them.