Montrealer's Tweets & Photos From Yesterday's May Day Protest Downtown
The streets of Montreal were in discord last night as Montreal protesters, in support of the global May Day movement, were brutally detained by Montreal's police force.
Protesters converged near Papineau and Ontario, with smaller groups also at St. Catherine/Plessis and Place des Arts.
During the anti-capitalism demonstrations, five Montrealers were arrested and 132 were fined tickets of a whopping $638.
See how it all went down through on-site Montrealer's tweets and photos.
Guess the SPVM weren't enough
#SPVM + SQ + Cavalrie pour #manifencours#MayDay#MayDay2014#Montrealpic.twitter.com/NrpvoAa5UJ — fr0g5 (@frogsarelovely) May 1, 2014
One street corner you shouldn't post up by, no matter your profession
— JoO (@go_to_jo) May 2, 2014
Arrests are one thing, but flippin' us all off? Uncool.
To serve and protect: this is what your police think of you (via @99Media_org). #mayday#manifencours#P6pic.twitter.com/23uZB1hQvK — Jon Summers (@jonathans_mtl) May 1, 2014
Because marching bands are too dangerous for the outdoors
— Laura Pellicer (@LauraPLive) May 1, 2014
Raw and intense
Media comrade arrested #manifencours#MayDay2014pic.twitter.com/7rflRYNcMm — stimulator (@stimulator) May 1, 2014
A bird's eye view of the demonstration
— Betty Esperanza (@esperanza4hire) May 1, 2014
Herding Montrealers
Arrestation de masse vue d'en haut #mayday#montreal#manifencours#p6#monSPVMpic.twitter.com/CH1edPGLkl — Moïse Marcoux-Chabot (@moisemc) May 1, 2014
At least they got the guy an ambulance afterwards...
Photo Cred - Simon Lussier
The other use of STM buses
— Suzanne MacNeil (@esooze) May 2, 2014
Classic Montreal
In the last half hour I: grabbed a beer with a friend, saw police face off with #MayDay protesters and watched hockey #typicalmontrealnight — sophie tremblay (@sophietremblay) May 1, 2014
Did you see yesterday's May Day protest?
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