This striking video shows riot police aim tear gas canisters directly and at close-range at a protestor. This constitutes an entirely illegal useful of the purportedly less-than lethal weapon:
Meanwhile, this footage captures protesters wresting riot shields from the police and using them for their own purposes:
And in this video, we see protestor hijack an excavator to drive back police -- an importantly symbolic move, as the urban unrest is as much a fight against the government's commercialized reconstruction of the city as anything else:
This footage from Ferit Katipoğlu captures marching then careening crowds on the fifth night of unrest:
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