Two gun calls.

A stabbing and slashing.

An officer making an arrest after a group of intoxicated people were seen jumping on top of a police cruiser, only to be bitten by a suspect.

Toronto police dealt with all of these “drug-and-alcohol-fuelled” incidents and more within a block of Yonge St. and Dundas St. W. during Nuit Blanche which is why they tried, but failed, to disperse a large crowd gathered at Dundas Square early Sunday, Toronto police spokesperson Victor Kwong said.

Three videos posted to YouTube Sunday show a tense confrontation between a large crowd and outnumbered Toronto police officers at Yonge-Dundas Square. The crowd can be seen shouting obscenities and throwing debris at police officers before advancing toward them.

In one video, an officer can clearly be seen getting hit in the head with what appears to be a bottle.

In another video, the officers can be seen backing into a glass kiosk at the northwest corner of the square, as the crowd pushes forward.

Shota Abaishvili, a film school graduate who shot and uploaded two of the videos, said the confrontation took place around 12:30 a.m. Sunday, when officers tried to move people out of Yonge-Dundas Square.

“The crowd was in the middle of Dundas Square, and police wanted to disperse them and police started moving into the centre,” Abaishvili said. “After that the crowd started throwing bottles at the police.”

Abaishvili said he did not see anyone get injured in the commotion.

Police attempted to get the crowd to disperse after being “inundated with a large number of priority calls specifically to that area,” Kwong said, listing off incidents in the square including a gun call in which the crowd taunted police as they took down a suspect who had an imitation firearm; a separate call where a woman was trampled by the crowd when panic broke out after someone shouted that there was a gun in the square; a stabbing around 11 p.m. where a man received multiple but non-life-threatening wounds; a separate slashing; a person-with-a-knife call; and multiple calls regarding fights, substance use, underage drinking and unconscious people.

Nearby, police were called to fights at Queen and Dundas subway stations — one fight at Dundas ended with a person being pushed on to the tracks. A fight also broke out at a restaurant and a window was smashed. At St. Michael’s Hospital, officers leaving the building found a group of intoxicated people jumping on their cruiser, who then fled the scene. Officers pursued the group and arrested one person, who then bit one of the officers.

Kwong said officers giving up on trying to get the Dundas Square crowd to disperse was a “tactical decision for public safety and officer safety” after the crowd grew agitated and developed a “mob mentality.” One officer received minor injuries after being hit in the head with a thrown glass bottle and another injured his hand after a struggle with some members of the crowd, Kwong added.

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Multiple arrests were made Saturday night into Sunday morning in and around the square and police are investigating the incidents of objects being thrown at officers with the help of high-definition security footage from cameras in the square.

“We cannot attribute everything to Nuit Blanche,” Kwong said, explaining that the art festival could not be blamed for what people chose to do. “But I can say that alcohol and drugs were behind all these calls.”