Listen to the tone of this, wagging their finger in disapproval...
To the media, the police in Montreal just killed an innocent bystander in their unbridled zeal to kill a homeless man, and you're surprised people are angry?
Don't be surprised if among some, the feeling is growing that police are overstepping their bounds, not just in Montreal, but across North America (G20 and Miami anyone?)
Anti-police demonstrators in Montreal marched to the site of a tragic shooting Wednesday night where two people, including an innocent bystander, were killed by officers' bullets.
Then they began smashing windows.
Members of the crowd picked up materials from a construction site and hurled them as projectiles.
They pelted bricks and chunks of broken concrete at about a dozen commercial windows, including restaurants and coffee shops. Several of the windows shattered.
An outdoor portable toilet was overturned and tossed into the street. Buildings, streets and at least one onlooker were splattered with pink paint tossed by demonstrators.
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Dude my main man is Martin Luther King and I also have a thing for Gandhi and Anne Frank. There's no excuse for this kind of behaviour and it totally de-legitimizes their grievances against police "overstepping their bounds".
I see nothing wrong with the coverage that you've excerpted here.
Those restaurants and coffee shops didn't kill an innocent man. The onlooker splattered with paint didn't kill or beat anyone.
I'm more and more concerned in recent times about the morals and ethics of police officers, and their unions. It's wrong for public servants whom we entrust with power to abuse citizens.
More violence and more hate are not the answer. The citizens ought be the real power and the police must conform to our standards; vandalizing and harassing innocent folks has nothing to do with reforming police perceptions of their power, and I don't think I can continue to visit your blog after this.
I wasn't advocating violence, just saying CBC shouldn't be surprised by it. You can only push people so far.
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