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Testimonies of Police Abuse
You have been victim of police abuse ?
(témoignage provenant de cet article de presse : http://fr.canoe.ca/infos/societe/archives/2011/02/20110202-110607.html)
Je suis étudiante à l’UQAM, je sortais d’un cours et je marchais sur la rue Saint-Denis, a-t-elle expliqué. J’ai voulu traverser la rue Laurier. J’étais pressée. La lumière était...
(testimony taken from CRARR website http://crarr.org/?q=node/19299)
A young biracial man (White-Latino) was driving home in his wife's car from a corner store in Laval, a municipality north of Montreal, accompanied by his male cousin, who is Latino. They had gone to buy eggs and bread for breakfast...
(testimony taken from CRARR website http://crarr.org/?q=node/19299)
In a case of Any Negro Will Do (a term to refer to the police practice of arresting a Black person based on a vague racialized suspect description), a young Black man was arrested in broad daylight in downtown Montreal by the...
An English-speaking man who looks much younger than his age, Mr. V., then in his 50s, was on his way home from work when the incident occurred. He arrived at Lionel Groulx metro station close to midnight and was hurrying to catch his bus when he heard a voice mumble something in French. Mr. V.,...
27 January 2012
Une fois le micro bien rangé et les journalistes des médias corporatifs sur le chemin de leur prochaine nouvelle, un article fait état de "quelques bousculades entre policiers et manifestants".
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/education/201201/27/0...
La violence policière de...
15 July 2011
Un jour de l'été 2011, je m'en allais me baigner dans la piscine illegalement car il était passé l'heure mais c'est une piscine exterieure , et la police nous a pogné mais j'avais même pas eu le temps de me baigner et il arrive et me demande de sortir immediatement de là. Donc moi encore avec mon...
25 November 2011
When I was arrested at Occupy Montreal on the 25th of November 2011 They were taking my information. They wrote on my hand with a permanent marker and then after I felt something pointy and metallic scraping across my skin. I immediately asked "What are you doing" and they simply said we wrote on...
31 March 2011
Pendant la manifestions contre la hausse des frais de scolarité du 31 mars 2011, un policier pousse une dame qui magasine sur le sol, sans lui venir en aide par la suite. Ceci après avoir chargé la manifestation d'appui à une occupation, les deux complètement pacifiques. This is what democracy...
07 September 2011
A police intervention in Montreal on Wednesday night around 11pm the 7th of September 2011. Around 8 cars and 30 cops that will arrest 3 guys, hit some of them, pepper spay a guy and push a girl really hard on a post.