Abandoned at King/Bay?

Allegations have been made that police left two cruisers at King/Bay to be torched by protesters.

Check this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjOMYlsVNCo&feature=channel

At 0:44 the camera faces south and you can see a line of vehicles across the street -- marked cruisers and unmarked vans -- a sort of loose barricade.

You can see no more than 30-50 cops were at that intersection initially. Plain uniforms with helmets, no riot gear.

At 1:08 you can hear "Let's get some help here"

At 2:22 you can see a small defensive cluster guarding east on King.

At 5:11 you can see the size of the mob; probably 1000s strong.

Police understand the power of a mob, of a riot. The cops mentioned above were overrun, overwhelmed and knew full well how vulnerable they were.

Just like these ones: check 0:40 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjOMYlsVNCo&feature=channel

No wonder the line of vehicles were abandoned. What were they going to do, start shooting people?