Press groups are calling for an investigation after Montreal police allegedly beat a freelance journalist while he was covering an anti-AI protest in the city's downtown last week.
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@br00t4c.bsky.socialPress groups are calling for an investigation after Montreal police allegedly beat a freelance journalist while he was covering an anti-AI protest in the city's downtown last week.
@ledevoir.com«Deux agents m’ont frappé alors que j’étais étendu sur le trottoir», a raconté le photographe William Wilson. #SPVM
@robinedgar59.bsky.social"Ce dossier fait l’objet d’un suivi et a été transmis à la Division des normes professionnelles (DNP) pour analyse."
Qui aurait su que le SPVM a une "Division des normes professionnelles"?
#NormesProfessionnelles #SPVM #MonSPVM #MySPVM #BrutalitéPolicière #PolMTL #MTLpoli #CMMTL #PolQC #QCpoli
@robinedgar59.bsky.socialI've asked multiple questions about #SPVM #RiotCops targeting William Wilson & other photographers-videographers & journalists (including myself) for various forms of violence since the March 2025 #PublicQuestionsPeriod.
ALL #Montréal #politicians are aware of this #PoliceBrutality.
@robinedgar59.bsky.socialThe September #Montreal city council meeting concluded after 11pm last night.
The next opportunity to ask questions about #SPVM #PoliceBrutality during the #PublicQuestionsPeriod will be on October 19th.
I've been #AskingQuestions for over a decade.
@robinedgar59.bsky.socialLa Ligue des droits et libertés, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association & others warned Montréal politicians about the risks of abuse stemming from the bylaw prohibiting "insulting" Montreal city employees.
#CharterRights #FreeSpeech #MySPVM #SPVM #PolMTL #MTLpoli #CMMTL
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@robinedgar59.bsky.socialI have already asked #Montreal politicians multiple questions about SPVM #RiotCops assaulting William Wilson & other photographers-videographers & #journalists etc., starting in March 2025, but more people need to put pressure on #politicians to denounce & end #SPVM #PoliceBrutality.
@robinedgar59.bsky.socialThis is just the most recent SPVM #PoliceBrutality targeting #photographers, videographers, & #journalists documenting #protests.
SPVM #RiotCops have been assaulting William Wilson & other #Montreal photographers-videographers for about 2 years now.
@robinedgar59.bsky.socialThere's a #Montréal city council meeting tonight. You & other people who were subjected to #SPVM #PoliceBrutality last Wednesday (while the SPVM was presenting its annual report for 2025 to the #PublicSecurityCommission) should ask questions during tonight's #PublicQuestionsPeriod.
@robinedgar59.bsky.socialDuring their 8 years in power, did you ever see former #Montréal mayor Valérie Plante, or #ProjetMontréal as a political party, tell the #SPVM to "stand down" or use other tactics to de-escalate?
Or did they rather typically do nothing?
@robinedgar59.bsky.socialMayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada & her Ensemble Montréal administration have done more to address UNprofessional & #abusive behaviour by problematic #SPVM cops in its first 10 months than #ProjetMontréal did in its 8 years in power.
Let's see how things look in 2027.
@robinedgar59.bsky.socialI wanted to ask a question about #SPVM #PoliceBrutality against not only #protesters, but photographers, videographers & journalists documenting #protests, but because the Public Security Commission insisted that questions should be about things in the annual report, I asked a different question.
@robinedgar59.bsky.socialQuite ironically, that most recent SPVM #PoliceRepression of a protest, & #PoliceBrutality towards not only #protesters, but #journalists documenting a #protest, occurred while the #SPVM was belatedly presenting its annual report for 2025.
@robinedgar59.bsky.socialQuite ironically, that most recent SPVM #PoliceRepression of a #protest, & #PoliceBrutality towards not only #protesters, but #journalists documenting a #protest, occurred while the #SPVM was belatedly presenting its annual report for 2025.
@robinedgar59.bsky.socialMost ironically, this most recent SPVM #PoliceRepression of peaceful public protest & #PoliceBrutality towards not only #protesters, but #journalists documenting a protest, occurred while the #SPVM was presenting its annual report for 2025.
@robinedgar59.bsky.socialI'm not a professional #journalist, but I am something of a "police watchdog".
I noticed an increase in #SPVM #PoliceBrutality targeting photographers & videographers, including William Wilson, in the fall of 2024.
Since then, I've been assaulted by SPVM #RiotCops twice.
@robinedgar59.bsky.socialICYMI there was just as much #SPVM #PoliceRepression of peaceful public protests, & #PoliceBrutality towards not only #protesters, but #journalists documenting protests, during the 8 years "l'homme de la shituation" aka #ValériePlante & #ProjetMontréal were in power.
@robinedgar59.bsky.socialQuite ironically, that most recent SPVM #PoliceRepression of a protest, & #PoliceBrutality towards not only #protesters, but #journalists documenting a #protest, occurred while the #SPVM was belatedly presenting its annual report for 2025.
@robinedgar59.bsky.socialThis video from this year's #MayDay Workers' Rights demonstration shows #SPVM riot cops firing a #TearGas grenade at #protesters, then charging at them.
Two of the #RiotCops then assault the person filming that #police "intervention".