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• Kate 18:24 on 2021-08-03 Permalink | Reply  

  I try to stick to stories on the island of Montreal, but if I’m posting about deer in Longueuil I’ve got to post about the shooting in Repentigny on the weekend. The mother of a Black man called 911 because he was having mental health problems, expecting help in getting him to hospital – but police showed up and shot the man dead. There’s a sit-in planned at Repentigny city hall Wednesday at 6 pm.

  “911 is not for Black people,” said Marie-Mireille Bence, the mother of Jean René Junior Olivier. Hard to argue with that.

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  • DeWolf 08:31 on 2021-08-04 Permalink

    The broader context is that Repentigny has a fast-growing Haitian community and a police force that seems to go out of its way to target Black people. The Human Rights Commission have ruled against the police in four separate cases over the past year alone.

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• Kate 10:04 on 2021-08-03 Permalink | Reply  

  An Old Montreal restaurant was firebombed early Tuesday but not too much damage was done.

  This brief piece also reports on a woman who was found injured on Plaza Saint-Hubert overnight, but no further information is given.

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  • Jeff 15:51 on 2021-08-03 Permalink

    Is there more violent crime in the city these days or am I just paying closer attention?

  • JP 16:27 on 2021-08-03 Permalink

    I’ve been wondering the same. I think there is something more going on…

  • Kate 18:27 on 2021-08-03 Permalink

    I’m not sure there is. It’s more that a whole class of media stories has been squelched by the pandemic – a ton of cultural stories have been omitted from the media for a year and a half. Basically we’re left with a skeleton of:
    1. Covid
    2. Sports
    3. Politics
    4. Acts of violence

    Also, we live in such a generally peaceful city that the occasional outbreak stands out by its contrast with the background.

  • walkerp 09:13 on 2021-08-04 Permalink

    Firebombing restaurants is almost a tradition in Montreal.

• Kate 08:55 on 2021-08-03 Permalink | Reply  

  Also Monday night, a man was stabbed in Verdun, but when three people were shot dead, there’s not much written about a non-fatal stabbing.

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  • MarcG 19:40 on 2021-08-03 Permalink

    I saw a little bit of police tape in the trees near the beach earlier.