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The story of a burned out police cruiser...

Queen said his attackers started wordlessly banging on his car windows and jumping on the roof before quickly moving on.

Fellow officers came to his aid but were surrounded once more by protesters. Queen said he was struck by a pole. “I was hit in the back of the head,” he said.

Queen’s supervisor told him not to get back in the car due to the shattered glass and he removed some equipment while waiting for a tactical team. Because of the increasing violence and evolving chaos, he was forced to abandon his cruiser at 415 Queen St. W. in front of Steve’s Music Store

The following day, 26-year-old Kirk Warrington appeared in bail court, accused of setting Toronto police car 3251 on fire during the height of violent demonstrations on Queen St. He was charged with five counts of mischief, including impersonating a police sergeant and arson. The charges were among the most serious laid against more than 200 demonstrators who appeared in bail court Sunday. Warrington is still in custody

In court, Warrington admitted to climbing onto the car and lighting himself on fire with a piece of burning paper at the urging of the crowd. Warrington tucked the burning paper under his jacket before it fell onto the windshield; that’s when he noticed flames inside the car

Warrington described “big billowing smoke coming out of me.” He also said he called for water and help but people around him said, “No, let it burn, let it burn.”

“Look, though I do believe I was definitely being mischievous, I wasn’t the bad apple in the crowd,” Warrington said in court. “I was entertaining the mass. I thought I did a pretty good job.”

The unemployed Cambridge man explained he is bipolar, has a Grade 7 education and medicates himself with marijuana. He is also on disability

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/toro...d-the-cop?bn=1