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A Video Shows Montreal Police Kneeling On A Black Teenager's Neck & Back

A video taken on June 10 appears to show a Montreal police officer kneeling on the neck and back of a Black teenager while conducting an arrest. 

The SPVM told MTL Blog that officers were responding to a 911 call at the George-Vanier High School, in Montreal's Villeray neighbourhood, "because a fight was in progress involving about fifteen individuals."

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A Quebec Man Was Allegedly Caught With Hundreds Of Guns (PHOTO)

On March 5, RCMP officers say they stopped a "suspicious vehicle" in Dundee, Quebec, near the U.S. border.

While searching the vehicle and a trailer, the officers found five hockey bags full of disassembled handguns, according to a report published by the federal police force.

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Montreal Is Now Asking The Canadian Gov't To Decriminalize Simple Drug Possession

A majority voted in favour of adopting the motion to call on the Canadian government to decriminalize the simple possession of drugs for personal use at Montreal's City Council on January 26.

"By ratifying this motion, the City of Montreal is adopting a change of direction that has become more than urgent," a joint press release from various community organizations reads. 

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Decriminalizing Simple Drug Possession Will Be Debated At Montreal's Next City Council

In the agenda for Montreal's City Council on Monday, January 25, a "Non-partisan motion calling on the City of Montreal to urge the government to Canadian to decriminalize simple possession of drugs for personal use" is set to be debated.

A press release about the subject asks that the City of Montréal "undertake as quickly as possible steps to request a city-wide exemption from the Government of Canada to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act."

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Montreal Police Found A Huge Load Of Drugs While Carrying Out Some Searches

On November 16, the SPVM announced that the Organized Crime Section "put an end last Thursday to the activities of traffickers suspected of selling narcotics mixed with fentanyl."

We're told by the SPVM that "The suspects were active in the Rosemont, Plateau Mont-Royal and South Central sectors of Montréal" and they're believed to have been "linked to several cases of opioid overdoses that occurred in different sectors of the city."

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