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Related: About this forumPolice shoot explosives at student protesters' heads in Montreal
I treated a student (on Alymer and Milton) who had a police tear gas canister explode when it hit his forehead. Fortunately, he was wearing goggles because he could have been blinded. His hair was singed from the explosion, and he had a superficial skin burn besides the cut and bruise on his forehead. His goggles were covered in chemical powder. I assume the canisters explode on impact (his head in this case) because besides the physical signs, he said it exploded when it hit him.
Ironically, he was telling high-school kids not to throw rocks because this was a peaceful demonstration, just before he got injured. The riot police chased a group of people up the street and shot two tear gas explosives into the crowd. These were not flash-bangs because the tear gas was stinging our eyes and I see the cloud.
(Those of you not from Montreal, a student may have been permanently blinded in one eye a week ago during a protest when hit by either a police flash-bang or a rubber "bullet" shot into the group of students. He was playing the harmonica at the time.)
Tonight, I heard at least six, if not eight of these explosions, and when I could see, they were exploding inside crowds of students. The last two explosions were when the riot police had surrounded a group of 50 or 100 students passively standing arm in arm, chanting, on rue Berri outside the Bibleoteque nationale (National Library). They then told them they were under arrest, and arrested them. It was surreal to see riot police running inside the Bibleoteque nationale.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/campus-notes/2012/03/police-shooting-explosives-student-protesters-heads-montreal
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)What escapes most American voters is that this extreme aggressive RW push is international. Protesters are being savaged even in place like Canada and Europe. Yet it is not being reported in most media.
izquierdista
(11,689 posts)They were the only group in the last century to successfully deal with right-wingers.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)They had their moments, but overall they were a loser and defamed the movement
Lucy Goosey
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