Bad scenes along Ste-Catherine
Twitter sounds like there’s some pretty violent scenes along Ste-Catherine near Crescent on Saturday evening – follow the usual tags #ggi and #manifencours.
Many reports say merely wearing a red square tonight in certain parts of town can get you arrested, or at least attract unfavourable attention from police. Please be careful out there.
Recent tweets say police cars are destroyed and the SQ’s riot squad has arrived on the scene. CUTV’s live feed is now up again after a short outage.
jeather 21:38 on 2012/06/09 Permalink
It must be recent, because I just left there an hour or so ago, and there were lots of cops and lots of tourists, but nothing much different from the usual Crescent Grand Prix weekend. They were really restricting entrances and exits to Crescent, though.
Kate 22:10 on 2012/06/09 Permalink
It’s recent, but the CUTV feed seems to suggest that right this minute things have calmed a little, although Ste-Catherine’s still full of people.
Doobious 23:44 on 2012/06/09 Permalink
It’s after midnight and the cops are still at it with their buzz-harshening helicopter. Cops and protesters alike all seemed to be well behaved enough earlier this evening, but holy crap it smells like the pot’s going to boil over sooner rather than later.