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Perhaps the most noteworthy G20 Toronto story that got attention was the story of "Officer Bubbles," the name given to a police officer, named Adam Josephs, who threatened to arrest a woman for assault if the bubbles she was blowing landed on him.
Officer Bubbles became a bit of an internet phenomenon, and others built on it, as normally happens in internet memes. Apparently, one person made cartoon versions of Officer Bubble arresting various famous people, such as President Obama and Santa Claus. Because of that, Officer Adam Josephs has now filed a $1.2 million defamation lawsuit.

20-year-old Courtney Winkels, a social worker from outside Toronto, blows bubbles near a line of police during the G20 summit of world leaders. Const. Adam Josephs, better known as 'Officer Bubbles,' appears on the scene to inform Winkels that "if the bubble touches me, you're going to be arrested for assault." Winkels puts the bubbles away while continuing to receive arrest threats from the officer. Moments later, Winkels is arrested.

Using lasers and nanoparticles, scientists at Rice University have discovered a new technique for singling out individual diseased cells and destroying them with tiny explosions. The scientists used lasers to make "nanobubbles" by zapping gold nanoparticles inside cells. In tests on cancer cells, they found they could tune the lasers to create either small, bright bubbles that were visible but harmless or large bubbles that burst the cells.

Evidence of provacateur action concerning two of the more infamous instances of police brutality at OCCUPY events (UC Davis and the "fenced in girls pepper sprayed") Ties all the way back to G20 "Officer Bubbles".

Waiting in line for the bus, a Pennsylvania kindergartner tells her pals she's going to shoot them with a Hello Kitty toy that makes soap bubbles. In Maryland, two 6-year-old boys pretend their fingers are guns during a playground game of cops and robbers. In Massachusetts, a 5-year-old boy attending an after-school program makes a gun out of Legos and points it at other students while "simulating the sound of gunfire," as one school official put it.

Local news report from Louisiana detailing the toxic gas blowing onshore.

A Toronto police officer has been charged with assaulting G20 protestor Adam Nobody, whose case became a flashpoint for public outrage over police actions at the summit.

A 61-year-old German woman has been fined €800 for blowing a whistle down the telephone at a call-centre worker and damaging her hearing.

A state grand jury in Winkler County, Tex., has indicted the sheriff, the county attorney and a hospital administrator for their roles in orchestrating the prosecution of two whistle-blowing nurses after they had reported allegations of malpractice.