05-13-2010, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
it's because riot control does not understand anything but being assholes.
What generally happens is you have a large group of people, having fun , cops in riot gear show up , look mad , have weapons and start acting aggresively, the crowd responds the same way because of numbers and voila you have a riot.
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Hmm, thats not quite what I got watching the video and reading the reports. The police even praised the people who were out celebrating.
Montreal police assistant director Sylvain Brouillette congratulated the vast majority of Canadiens fans, estimated at 50,000, who poured downtown last night to watch Game 7 on giant screens at the Bell Centre or in local bars and to celebrate their team's success.
"We had huge crowds, and the great majority of people co-operated with us," he said Thursday morning at a news conference outside Foot Locker, one of three vandalized stores near Ste. Catherine and Drummond St. "It was only about 500 out of 50,000 who took part in criminal acts."
Once the vandalism and smash-and-grabs began, the Montreal police riot squad was called in and the street was cleared within 30 minutes, Brouillette said.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Polic...322/story.html |
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