January 27th, about 200 students in Montreal were protesting on the Government’s plan to hike up university tuition in front of the offices of the Ministry of Education, were peacefully protesting, standing still holding up a red banner and just staying put not making any aggressive moves to police when suddenly, one hothead thug police officer decided to zero in on a student and beat him. That same officer later later in the video then pushed harshly a female student to the ground.
The video was posting and went viral and now Montreal police are opening an internal investigation following complaints after the publication of a video on YouTube that clearly shows police brutality.
In the video (see above from about 0:36 to 0:43) the police thug strikes a protester with about three punches to the abdomen, pushing the students back about five times.
The language spoken is french since Montreal is 50% French within the Provence (similar to a state) of Quebec, 85 % are French Canadians.
The students in question did not appear to be seriously hurt and did not make any attempt to fight back or defend themselves.
The police lied by explaining that they reacted after the students circled the police in an threatening attempt to prevent them from clearing the area.
Montreal police investigating brutality claims
Montreal police are investigating allegations of police brutality after footage of an officer hitting a protester surfaced on the internet Friday.
The video, shot during a protest against university tuition hikes on Jan. 27, shows a police officer approach a protester and strike him in the stomach using the butt end of his baton. The officer proceeds to shove the young man several times as protesters yell for him to stop.
“What we saw was pretty simple,” event organizer Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois told La Presse. “We have a police who walked up to someone and hit him while this person was simply holding a banner.”
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Admittedly, looks bad. Not what I would call a “savage beating”‘. But does look bad.
No t, it doesn’t look bad, it was a criminal battery. Call a spade a spade, huh? Especially when police will consider it assault on a LEO if you lightly and accidently brush up against them. So don’t try to minimize it, he committed a crime and should be arrested and charged just like any other criminal. Because that’s what makes you a criminal, right? When you commit a crime. The crime is that he assaulted the student unlawfully. Not if it was a savage beating or not, but if it was unlawful or not. So stand up to your oath, and say he should be arrested and prosecuted.
Certain: Can you read?? Or just not comprehend? Did I defend this at all?? No, I did not. Wow, slow down a little and READ.
I love how NOT ONE of the cops does a single thing about the attack OTHER than to make sure he was well defended.
The LEOs are on here all the time talking about how it’s just a few bad cops. But 100% of the cops in this video FAILED to protect the innocent and unarmed.
So is this just an impossible case of the few bad cops all being grouped together OR are we on this site 100% correct that given the option, LEOs will fail to judge the rights of unarmed citizens to be more important that watching the back or an agressive cop making a bad decision?
I’m sure the silence will be deafening…
I translated what was said, the guy clearly said, “Dear constable, I seem to be in a conundrum, my chum and I have a gentleman’s wager over the composition of your side-handle baton, could be please jab me with it so I can test it? Thank you my good sir, have a pleasant day..”
This little “ditty” emulates, (in a way), that filth “Jay” Gould’s statement re;
I can hire one-half of the poor to kill the other half. Hell, It might catch on!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/da-mass-police-officer-shot-wounded-by-off-duty-sergeant-who-later-kills-himself/2012/02/24/gIQAvO4yYR_story.html
Common and T and PSOSGT want to go on and on about “statistically insignificant” and “asking for it” and “bad cops vs. good cops” but NOT one of them will touch my simple question. Why did 100% of the cops in this video FAIL to do the RIGHT thing?