{"id":359173,"date":"2018-05-01T05:43:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T04:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/montreal-police-a-problem-with-democracy\/"},"modified":"2018-05-01T05:43:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T04:43:57","slug":"montreal-police-a-problem-with-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/montreal-police-a-problem-with-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Police: A Problem with Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Montr\u00e9al police have a problem with democracy that the new progressive city council should address.<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday I was arrested for shouting \u201cshame; free Palestine\u201d at the large annual pro-Israel demonstration. Three officers on bikes blocked me from walking on the sidewalk of Boulevard Ren\u00e9 L\u00e9vesque and yelling \u201cshame, free Palestine\u201d at people with Israeli flags on the street. After being threatened with arrest for expressing my opinion in motion, I joined a small counter-demonstration called by the Action Antifasciste Montr\u00e9al (though most of the counter-demonstrators were Jewish anti-Zionist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neturei_Karta\">Neturei Karta<\/a>). Standing just behind a row of police officers at the edge of Square Dorchester, I restarted shouting for about five minutes at which point a cop told me to move further into the park. When I refused to be muzzled again I was handcuffed, searched, put in the back of a police van and given a ticket for having continued or repeated an act that a police officer said to cease doing (\u201cEn ayant continu\u00e9 ou r\u00e9p\u00e9t\u00e9 un acte interdit apr\u00e8s avoir re\u00e7u l`ordre d\u2019un agent de la paix de cesser cet acte.\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>After a half hour the police drove me a few blocks away and said if I returned to the protest site they would arrest me and take me to a detention centre. I was given a $150 fine, which I will contest. In fact, I hope to sue the police for breaching my Charter right to peacefully protest.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this incident of police overreach \u2014 in a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/04\/montreal-police-a-problem-with-democracy\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montr\u00e9al police have a problem with democracy that the new progressive city council should address. Last Thursday I was arrested for shouting \u201cshame; free Palestine\u201d at the large annual pro-Israel demonstration. Three officers on bikes blocked me from walking on the sidewalk of Boulevard Ren\u00e9 L\u00e9vesque and yelling \u201cshame, free Palestine\u201d at people with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-359173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}