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COPS – PIGS – MURDERERS<\/strong><\/p>\n from the 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.<\/p>\n Then they began smashing windows.<\/p>\n Members of the crowd picked up materials from a construction site and hurled them as projectiles.<\/p>\n They pelted bricks and chunks of broken concrete at about a dozen commercial windows, including restaurants and coffee shops. Several of the windows shattered.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Many of the 200 protesters were dressed head to toe in black or wore black bandannas to conceal their faces, garb commonly worn at rowdy protests.<\/p>\n They chanted slogans and held signs denouncing police violence. One giant banner said, “Never again.”<\/p>\n Dozens of officers on motorcycles kept an eye on the crowd in a city with a history of violence at anti-police protests.<\/p>\n Later, officers in full riot gear marched through a downtown street banging their batons on their shields in unison, forcing a large gang of demonstrators to disperse.<\/p>\n Some protesters quickly shed their dark clothing to blend back in with the peaceful activists.<\/p>\n In the end, this protest was quieter than recent anti-police events in Montreal. The police department said there were no arrests, no injuries and four windows were smashed.<\/p>\n This march was prompted by tragic events Tuesday,<\/a> when police shot and killed two people: a homeless man allegedly wielding a knife and a bystander who was on his way to work at a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n Minutes before the demonstration turned unruly, the crowd paused at the scene of the shootings just outside the Universit\u00e9 du Quebec a Montreal. One man speaking into a megaphone reminded fellow protesters that the blood of the victims was still visible on the rain-soaked sidewalk.<\/p>\n “We don’t forgive, we don’t forget,” the masked man shouted \u2014 in both English and French \u2014 into the megaphone.<\/p>\n His remarks prompted cheers and whistling from the crowd around him.<\/p>\n “I’m here to demonstrate against police impunity,” said another protester who would only call himself George.<\/p>\n “I’m here to protest in favour of . . . an independent inquiry committee, because cops investigating cops over these shootings \u2014 it just doesn’t work, man.”<\/p>\n Numerous critics are calling for a change in the way Quebec handles police-related shootings.<\/p>\n Any shooting in the province involving an officer’s gun is investigated by an outside police force. Provincial police have taken over the investigation into Tuesday’s deaths.<\/p>\n Critics say the system lacks transparency and police investigators ensure their colleagues never have to face justice.<\/p>\n “There was another murder by police and the other murders that happened in the past were never punished \u2014 I think that’s a problem,” demonstrator Jean-Luc Simard said Wednesday before the march.<\/p>\n “We know the same thing is going to happen again \u2014 the S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec [provincial police] will justify this assassination.”<\/p>\n In a bizarre twist, reports emerged just as the protest began that Quebec provincial police officers were involved in another shooting in the town of Rawdon, Que.<\/p>\n Two officers intervened to help a man who, police say, had been attacked. After an altercation, provincial police say one of their officers fired at a man they allege was causing the disturbance.<\/p>\n The man was brought to hospital and his injuries were not considered life-threatening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" COPS – PIGS – MURDERERS from the capitalist press (june 8, 2011): 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 … Continue reading capitalist press<\/del> (june 8, 2011):<\/em><\/p>\nProvincial police investigating<\/h3>\n