Longueuil metro: teenagers with sticks sow alarm
A crowd of young people, some armed with sticks, caused alarm at Longueuil metro on Friday afternoon. Nobody was hurt and even police admit there’s no apparent reason to arrest anyone.
Update: Not much of an update Saturday morning except an additional detail that some of the crowd also wore masks. CBC rather clickbaitingly headlines the story 30 masked youth with weapons but there’s no clarification the weapons were only sticks – just “at least one was also carrying a knife” although nobody got stabbed, and – as we’ve established on the blog previously – lots of people carry knives for practical, nonviolent reasons.
There have still been no arrests.
Ian 20:37 on 2020-03-06 Permalink
heavens, was it an old-fashioned rumble?
Kate 10:19 on 2020-03-07 Permalink
I half wonder if somebody said “Come on, I bet we can do something that will get us reported in the media…”
JP 00:51 on 2020-03-08 Permalink
I wonder what kind of masks they were wearing? Ski masks or the type of mask that people are wearing because of worry about viruses? My friend was on a metro today with a woman wearing a mask (the kind some people are wearing because of viruses) who would keep taking it off to scream out racist stuff.
Kate 10:54 on 2020-03-08 Permalink
I saw that happening once, JP, on the metro eastbound in the east end, and the woman was screaming in English. People were trying hard to ignore her – she was older, she was obviously somewhat crazy, but she wasn’t posing a physical threat so nobody seemed to think it worth signalling the driver about. Was a really poisonous atmosphere, though.
Ian 17:23 on 2020-03-08 Permalink
“the youths were all from Montreal and aged between 15- and 17-years old”
As FNoMTL pointed out, somebody just needs to check TikTok to see what they were up to.