Black Lives Matter in Canada

>>>Michele Hehn reports from Montreal on the ongoing demonstrations there and in Toronto to stand up against racism and police violence.

April 14, 2016

BRAVING A spring snowstorm, a young, multiracial and multilingual (French, English and Haitian Creole) crowd gathered in North Montreal April 6 to protest the death of Jean Pierre Bony, a North Montreal resident and Haitian immigrant shot a week earlier by police with a rubber bullet to the head while he was trying to escape a marijuana arrest.

The demonstration followed a rally two hours earlier at the same location to observe the birthday of another North Montreal victim of police murder, Fredy Villanueva, who was killed eight years ago during a drug raid. Like Bony, Villanueva was unarmed.

Undeterred by the weather, the protesters' numbers swelled to 400 as they chanted, "Police partout, justice nul part!" (Police everywhere, justice nowhere!), "On avance, on ne recul pas" (We're going ahead, we're not turning back) and "Black Lives Matter!"

The crowd marched to the spot where Bony was killed to observe a moment of silence. Banners included pictures of Montreal's police victims and the text "Qui nous protegera de la police?" (Who will protect us from the police?)

After the protest ended, there was some property damage done to a local police station, a Banque of Montreal kiosk and parked cars. Even the police admitted that the >>>
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