Uh-oh. A tweet from Toronto notes that weirdly, there are 4 cop cars outside #hacklabto as they are having a party for #freebyron. HackLabTo is the Kensington Market hackerspace that Byron Sonne (who was acquitted yesterday on all counts related to his emperor-wears-no-clothesery of the Toronto G20 summit in 2010) is affiliated with. Update: they're gone now.

  • Paul Renault

    The partiers should have invited the cops in.

    • http://twitter.com/rvitelli Romeo Vitelli

       Or offering them some pizza. 

  • AlexG55

    That’s what happens if you have a hackerspace in a room above a donut shop.

  • t3kna2007

    I’m sure people in countries known for police corruption are familiar with this behavior.

  • http://delayofgame.ca Rajio

    To be fair, its an area of town theres often a lot of police presence, and its more likely they just wanted to check that shits not going down (with media etc too it could turn into a circus) an not trying to intimidate attendees or send a subtextual message. 

    • bloopeeriod

      Could you shove that benefit of doubt any higher up there?

      • http://delayofgame.ca Rajio

        about as far as you can shove the Orwellian paranoia, yeah.

        • Mark Lee McDonald

          Orwellian, yes. Paranoia? In this case, I don’t think so.