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CANADIAN PRESS Protesters are accusing police of using undercover agents
to provoke violent confrontations at the North American leaders' summit
in Montebello, Que. . . A video, posted on YouTube, shows three young
men, their faces masked by bandannas, mingling Monday with protesters in
front of a line of police in riot gear. At least one of the masked men
is holding a rock in his hand. The three are confronted by protest
organizer Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and
Paperworkers Union of Canada. Coles makes it clear the masked men are
not welcome among his group of protesters, whom he describes as mainly
grandparents. He urges them to leave and find their own protest
location. Coles also demands that they put down their rocks. Other
protesters begin to chime in that the three are really police agents.
Several try to snatch the bandanas from their faces.
Rather than leave, the three actually start edging closer to the police
line, where they appear to engage in discussions. They eventually push
their way past an officer, whereupon other police shove them to the
ground and handcuff them.
Late Tuesday, photographs taken by another protester surfaced, showing
the trio lying prone on the ground. The photos show the soles of their
boots adorned by yellow triangles. A police officer kneeling beside the
men has an identical yellow triangle on the sole of his boot.
Kevin Skerrett, a protester with the group Nowar-Paix, said the photos
and video together present powerful evidence that the men were actually
undercover police officers. . . The three do not appear to have been
arrested or charged with any offence.
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/248608
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CANADIAN PRESS Protesters are accusing police of using undercover agents
to provoke violent confrontations at the North American leaders' summit
in Montebello, Que. . . A video, posted on YouTube, shows three young
men, their faces masked by bandannas, mingling Monday with protesters in
front of a line of police in riot gear. At least one of the masked men
is holding a rock in his hand. The three are confronted by protest
organizer Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and
Paperworkers Union of Canada. Coles makes it clear the masked men are
not welcome among his group of protesters, whom he describes as mainly
grandparents. He urges them to leave and find their own protest
location. Coles also demands that they put down their rocks. Other
protesters begin to chime in that the three are really police agents.
Several try to snatch the bandanas from their faces.
Rather than leave, the three actually start edging closer to the police
line, where they appear to engage in discussions. They eventually push
their way past an officer, whereupon other police shove them to the
ground and handcuff them.
Late Tuesday, photographs taken by another protester surfaced, showing
the trio lying prone on the ground. The photos show the soles of their
boots adorned by yellow triangles. A police officer kneeling beside the
men has an identical yellow triangle on the sole of his boot.
Kevin Skerrett, a protester with the group Nowar-Paix, said the photos
and video together present powerful evidence that the men were actually
undercover police officers. . . The three do not appear to have been
arrested or charged with any offence.
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/248608
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