“OTTAWA — Organizers of a peaceful protest at this week’s Montebello summit want answers from the Prime Minister about three demonstrators whom they say were police agents.
Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers union, says the three were trying to provoke violence.
A video of a confrontation with the three, posted on YouTube, shows one of the men holding a rock in his hand.
The men, who had their faces masked by bandannas, eventually got through police lines where they were whisked away.
But there is no record of their arrests and police have refused to comment on the matter.
Video and photos of the men show them wearing boots with the same marking as police boots.”
“Activists say they believe the three were planted in the crowd to provoke a confrontation to give police justification for moving on the peaceful protesters.
Mr. Coles wants the Prime Minister’s Office and the office of Quebec Premier Jean Charest to say whether they had any knowledge of the protest infiltrators.”
This is how this event was covered on CTV’s national newscast:
Photo of one of the ‘protesters’ on flickr:
Photo by Kate.
Update: thanks for the link Boing Boing.
Update: the police admit they went undercover but claim it wasn’t to cause trouble. Why was the cop holding a rock then?
“Quebec provincial police admitted Thursday that their officers disguised themselves as demonstrators during the protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello, Que.”
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