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Beautiful sad video about the Police Brutality going on in Quebec.
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May 20, 2012- Montreal police under fire after video surfaces of officers pepper spraying bar patrons
source: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1181479—montreal-police-…
Montreal police pepper-spray bar patrons amid protest- CBC News
“A day after a sometimes violent Montreal protest ended in a series of street fires, police were criticized for pepper-spraying patrons at a nearby bar patio.
Surveillance footage shows several people on the St-Bock Brasserie terrace being sprayed at close range by police in riot gear.
As other customers at the St-Denis Street bar scurry inside, an officer barrels through a tangle of tables and chairs.
Another video from a local TV station shows the officers took action after one was hit by a chair that someone threw. The chair was then flung back toward the patio.
“About one foot from the faces of my clients, police also threw this,” said bar owner Martin Guimond, holding up an empty muzzle blast.
“They created panic, they destroyed the terrace and people scrambled inside, throwing themselves over each other. Everyone left without paying.”
A waitress told him to call 911, then said, “But wait, it’s the police that are doing this,” Guimond recounted.
“That’s when you realize there’s a total breakdown of order.”
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/05/20/quebec-student-protes…
Montreal cops seen pepper spraying bar patrons
MONTREAL — Montreal police are being criticized over an altercation caught on video that shows a group of patrons on a patio bar getting pepper sprayed during a protest Saturday night.
Surveillance footage, being played in a loop today on one of Quebec’s all-news stations, shows several people sprayed by riot police at close range.
The footage shows customers scrambling to get inside the bar as a police officer knocks over tables and chairs.
Another video from a local TV station shows the officers took action after one was hit by a flying chair.
Martin Guimond, the owner of the bar, says police went too far and he’s considering taking legal action.
There is a protest underway today in Montreal against Quebec’s new emergency law (Bill 78)
source: : http://www.windsorstar.com/news/Montreal+cops+seen+pepper+spraying+patrons/66…
Quebec Student Protests: Video Shows Police In Montreal Pepper Spraying Bar Patrons (VIDEO)
Surveillance footage, played in a loop Sunday on one of Quebec’s all-news stations, shows several people sprayed by riot police at close range. Customers are seen scrambling to get inside the bar as a police officer knocks over tables and chairs.
source: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/20/video-montreal-police-pepper-spray-pa…
CTV: Montreal police pepper spray bar patrons on video
Bar manager Nicolas Paquet said police also fired a crowd-dispersal powder at the patrons gathered on the patio. “In my eyes, (police were ) violent and rough with the customers,” Paquet told CTV Montreal. “All that for only one guy.”
Martin Guimond, owner of the bar, said he’s considering taking legal action against police. “People were falling on each other running inside to get away from the pepper spray, breaking things, and then people left by the back exit,” Guimond told The Canadian Press. “My waitress said, ‘We have to call 911.’ And then she said, ‘But wait, it’s the police that are doing this.’ That’s when you realize there’s a total loss of security.”
source: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20120520/quebec-tuition-protests-make-wa…
The bar owner said police went too far and he’s considering taking legal action.
“People were falling on each running inside to get away from the pepper spray, breaking things, and then people left by the back exit,” said Martin Guimond, who runs the Saint Bock brasserie in the city’s lively Latin Quarter. “My waitress said, ‘we have to call 911.’ And then she said, ‘But wait, it’s the police that are doing this.’ That’s when you realize there’s a total loss of security.”
source: http://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/national-news/video-shows-montreal-police-p…
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Broadcaster: Canadian Press, CTV news
Video Credit/sources:
1.http://ca.news.yahoo.com/video/canews-22424922/video-shows-montreal-police-pep
per-spraying-bar-patrons-29356157.html
2.http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20120520/quebec-tuition-protests-make-waves-120520/
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Another protester on the ground with blood dripping from his face. Police everywhere. #NoNATO
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NATO-SUMMIT/PROTESTS
A police officer swings a baton at protesters during an anti-NATO protest march in Chicago May 20, 2012. Baton-swinging police officers clashed with anti-war protesters at the start of the NATO summit on Sunday, beating some and dragging others away. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
