Police reaching more often for tear gas

Police have been reaching for the tear gas a lot lately.

In tangential commentary, Ted Rutland writes in La Presse about the futility of returning to a gang crackdown which, in the past, has always mainly meant stopping and searching a lot of young Black men. The last time this was done, 40% of the young Black men in Montreal North and St-Michel were stopped and questioned by police, who eventually created an unwieldy database of 10,000 names of suspected gang members. It’s a nifty way to make a whole generation of guys know they’re excluded from society, but it doesn’t fix the problem, q.e.d.