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redcaimen 
If they had some mechanism for charging the police depts. budget for all the damage they failed to prevent you might get more cost effective policing.
I bet a lot of this one billion dollar figure went into stuff not spent or used during the G20. Look on the bright side. They now have the money to replace the cop cars that got burned. Of course if you are the owner of a Starbucks you are SOL.
i think all the starbucks are corporately owned, so are the american apparel stores.
not defending the protesters, but they are well organized and only targeted corporations. no civilians and local moms and pops stores were vandalized.
at one point some goons were trying to flip over a BMW outside the police headquarters and the head protesters stopped them and said "that's not our enemy". this is via the toronto star