Two hurt in fracas at an SQDC
Two men, one of them a cop, were injured Monday evening in a brawl in the SQDC outlet on Queen Mary. A man who had attacked a store employee then a policeman was subdued by a blow from another policeman’s baton. The BEI is investigating.
Update: Tuesday morning, it’s reported that three men were knocked out in this cannabis store incident, including two cops. The effort to subdue the instigator with a baton was unsuccessful, according to this piece, but he ended up unconscious somehow. A CP report mentions pepper spray. At least no shots were fired.
walkerp 07:15 on 2021-01-26 Permalink
He should have ordered the indica.
qatzelok 12:16 on 2021-01-26 Permalink
“There were no Hacidim involved, so I don’t see why this is even news.”
(This blog is approaching 50% Hacidim content.)
Kate 12:18 on 2021-01-26 Permalink
qatzelok, I begin to think you have a masochistic desire to get banned.
Bill Binns 14:28 on 2021-01-26 Permalink
I didn’t think Montreal cops carried batons. Seems like we would be hearing a lot more baton news if they all had them. I’m a fan though. Nice non-lethal alternative to guns. Probably safer than Tasers too.
Tee Owe 14:36 on 2021-01-26 Permalink
Somebody should invent a cannabis spray 🙂
Kate 16:48 on 2021-01-26 Permalink
Bill Binns, they don’t often get mentioned, but I gather SPVM cops have an extensible baton, as mentioned in this story from two years ago: “le policier frappe l’homme avec son bâton télescopique.”
Bill Binns 10:05 on 2021-01-27 Permalink
@Kate – Ah, well that explains why the baton “failed to subdue”. It’s like whacking someone with a car antenna. Hard to believe now but the cops where I grew up were issued these little leather pouches filled with sand (in addition to the hickory club). Not a lot of “cop shoots unarmed man” stories back then but lots of mugshots with eyes swollen closed.
dwgs 11:33 on 2021-01-27 Permalink
Bill those are called saps or blackjacks, they were also sometimes filled with lead shot. Hit someone at the base of the skull with one and you knock them out instantly. Nasty. And the batons are not like hitting someone with a car antenna. If you get hit with one in the side of the knee you are going down and staying down.
CE 12:56 on 2021-01-27 Permalink
Would the cops hit the person with the bag of sand or throw the sand in their eyes? I’ve seen Montreal cops carrying billy clubs on their belts before. I’ve been on the receiving end of one before, not fun.
I found it interesting and unsettling to see cops in the US holding clubs that looked like big pieces of wood at BLM protests. The optics of it seemed weird to me.
Kate 14:57 on 2021-01-27 Permalink
A sock-shaped leather bag filled with dense sand has the advantage that it sort of wraps to the shape of head and conveys all your force to your victim. Same if you put lead shot in there. I don’t know whether they’re legal, but it’s hard to make a leather bag and a few handfuls of sand illegal.