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Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees

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heisgone · 1790176572 · focus · HN ↗
For context, police gained support for this bylaw following this video. The guy posted the video of himself of calling an office a whore on socia media. The fact the officer was so polite and couldn't do anything about it made people furious. Of course, there is real risk of abuse of this law but that's the context.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9YMLpiDPWs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9YMLpiDPWs
1. S0y · 1790176930 · focus · HN ↗
  Yeah, hopefully this bylaw is only going to be used for extreme cases like these.
  1. slackfan · 1790177404 · focus · HN ↗
    Famous last words.
  2. fidotron · 1790177944 · focus · HN ↗
    The entire m/o of Montreal cops is to act as bait to raise money from fines.
    If they haven't made enough from fines for a particular time window they all start messing with the traffic to get people to drive over reds in frustration, or get pedestrians to cross against the light. I've seen them leave people at intersections for over five minutes trying to do this.
    Never seen it taken to such an extremely obvious level anywhere else, along with their bizarrely over the top body armour for what is in reality a very safe place.
  3. nxm · 1790182168 · focus · HN ↗
    Can bet they won’t
  4. morkalork · 1790202398 · focus · HN ↗
    Yes, hopefully. Let's check in on our friends at the SPVM and see how they're doing?
    <a href="https://therover.ca/open-letter-investigate-the-montreal-police-who-beat-and-hospitalized-our-colleague/" rel="nofollow">https://therover.ca/open-letter-investigate-the-montreal-pol...
    <a href="https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2261943/calls-grow-for-independent-investigation-into-alleged-racism-at-montreal-nord-police-station" rel="nofollow">https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2261943/calls-grow-f...
    ...oh dear..
  5. cucumber3732842 · 1790204726 · focus · HN ↗
    It always starts that way so the useful idiots can feel right.
    Give it a decade and they'll be using it for everything.

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