Street fights

>> Cops and protesters mix it up, again,
at the annual anti-police brutality march

Photos by RACHEL GRANOFSKY

On Saturday, March 15, several hundred protesters marched through downtown Montreal calling for an end to police brutality. And as usual, the protest turned violent, with smashed shop windows, beer bottles and batons flying, and ending with dozens of arrests. A Couche Tarde on Sherbrooke was raided by protesters, who liberated some junk food before being booed by their fellow marchers. A police representative tells the Mirror 47 people were arrested, several vehicles damaged, around 10 commerce’s windows were broken and graffiti sprayed at St-Laurent and Place des Arts metro stations. The whole fracas lasted about three hours.

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