20:57 on 2012/05/18 Reply  

• Marc 21:58 on 2012/05/18 Permalink

  Molotov cocktails have been tossed at the police.

• Kate 22:08 on 2012/05/18 Permalink

  La Presse’s P. Teisceira-Lessard just tweeted: Résumé: après une flambée de violence coin St-Laurent/St-Denis, un calme relatif est revenu. La #manifencours illégale est tolérée.

• Anto 22:16 on 2012/05/18 Permalink

  Yeah well you should always expect the unexpected at the corner of two parallels.

• Kate 22:17 on 2012/05/18 Permalink

  Yes, if the demos are bending space-time we’re really in trouble.

• mare 00:45 on 2012/05/19 Permalink

  At a certain point the demonstration split up and then later reunited. It was kind of cool to see another demonstration coming towards you. Now my feet hurt after more than three hours continuous walking. And I left earlier, they’re now (2PM) almost 5 hours demonstrating.

• Ian 08:15 on 2012/05/19 Permalink

  What I’d like to know is how, with 10s of thousands of peoples, many with cameras, hundreds of cops, many with cameras, helicopters, probably with cameras, and dozens of photojournalists, nobody managed to get a shot of these alleged “molotov cocktails”.

• Kevin 08:25 on 2012/05/19 Permalink

  @Ian
  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/molotov-cocktails-launched-in-montreal-protests-following-legal-crackdown/article2437892/

• Kevin 08:25 on 2012/05/19 Permalink

  That’s a photo of a smoke bomb, and the report says a CP photographer saw the firebombs.

• Marc 08:43 on 2012/05/19 Permalink

  @ Ian, It was reported on the SPVM’s Twitter feed. I realize you don’t find that to be trustworthy but you have to give them the benefit of the doubt.

• Ian 08:45 on 2012/05/19 Permalink

  A smoke bomb’s not a molotov, and if you’re seriously telling me a photographer saw the molotovs but got no pictures as proof… well, if you hear a soft snickering sound, that’s me over here, laughing derisively.

• Ian 08:48 on 2012/05/19 Permalink

  @Marc – no I don’t. The cops have lied many times before, and they have every reason to lie about this. That they let the protest re-form speaks volumes to disorganization up the chain of command – I can just imagine, “There’s too many people on the street to control! Shut it down, make up something about molotovs!” “Oh no, they’re not going home & we can’t arrest them all, we need to look like we’re in control – tweet that it’s legal after all!”

• Marc 08:51 on 2012/05/19 Permalink

  @ Ian: Seeing you resorting to non sequiturs it’s obvious that you and I won’t agree on this (or on anything, for that matter), so I bid you farewell.

• steph 11:29 on 2012/05/19 Permalink

  This reddit user details the passing of events, and tells “A molotov cocktail is throw at police but lands in the street without hitting anyone”
  http://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/tu702/quebec_student_protests_turn_increasingly_violent/c4psjt4

• Ian 13:16 on 2012/05/19 Permalink

  …and still, no photos.

• Kevin 21:07 on 2012/05/19 Permalink

  @ian
  I am so glad you think journalists are perfect ;)

• Ian 11:36 on 2012/05/20 Permalink

  @Kevin – I don’t expect them to be perfect, but I do expect them not to propagate lies on behalf of the alarmist police. tens of thousands of people and not a single photo? I call bullshit. We’ve all seen the cops stretch the truth to serve their needs on many occasions, why would this one be any different?

• Ian 09:16 on 2012/05/24 Permalink

  I stand corrected – a friend forwarded me this youtube footage. Pretty intense, and I can’t support throwing molotovs at the cops. http://youtu.be/IZBzWqp6mRQ

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