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Quebec Student Strike: Police Begin to Apply Draconian Bill 78
Excerpt from: Quebec Student Strike: Police Begin to Apply Draconian Bill 78
By Keith Jones - WSWS The organizers of Tuesday’s nocturnal protest, the 29th successive evening demonstration held in downtown Montreal in support of the student strike, had defied the legal requirement that they seek police permission for their demonstration. Citing this failure, the police declared the protest an “illegal assembly,” then used tear-gas and baton charges to disperse the crowd of more than 2,000...In the melee that followed, 113 people were arrested...for alleged acts of violence committed while resisting the police’s violent dispersal of the protest or for wearing a...Published By: Resist!ca - Thursday, 24 May, 2012