City News Montreal reporter Johanie Bouffard interviewed me at the Public Security Commission's consultation on the SPVM’s 2026–2030 plan to address #PoliceDiscrimination & #PoliceRacism.
youtu.be/_i27mMVbyL8
#PoliceKillings #PoliceBrutality #RacialProfiling #SPVM #MySPVM #PolMTL #MTLpoli #PolQC
Johanie Bouffard of #CityTV Montreal News interviewed me when I was at the Public Security Commission's public consultation on the SPVM’s 2026–2030 plan to address police #discrimination and #racism.
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#RacialProfiling #SPVM #MySPVM #MonSPVM #PolMTL #MTLpoli #PolQC
“These #misogynistic & #disrespectful remarks have no place in #Montreal. Now, how do we ensure that citizens who are stopped by the #police feel they’re being stopped for the right reasons, & how do we ensure that the police are respected in their role?”
Soraya Martinez Ferrada
#MySPVM #PolMTL
If the #SPVM can arrest #YvesEngler for alleged #harassment for criticizing a #Zionist "influencer" who promotes the #EthnicCleansing of #Gaza on X, & for creating an email campaign calling for those charges to be dropped, it can arrest this #misogynist * for #CriminalHarassment.
#MySPVM #MonSPVM
Thankfully there a good number of #Montreal politicians who are not only aware that #SystemicRacism is a major problem in the SPVM, but who have directly or indirectly experienced #racism courtesy of #racist #SPVM police officers.
I know several of them. . .
#MySPVM #PolMTL #MTLpoli #CMMTL #PolQC
Over a quarter century ago, I published a web page titled 'Pepper Spray Is Torture'.
#SPVM cops misuse #PepperSpray as a #CrowdControl tool, & some abusive cops even deliberately & gratuitously misuse pepper spray to intimidate & inflict painful punishment on #protesters & #photographers.
#MySPVM
A screenshot from a Cheï Levesque video capturing a belligerent SPVM riot cop very purposely lunging directly at Montreal photographer Robin Edgar and violently shoving him to the ground during the 2025 Collectif 15 mars protest against police brutality.
A screenshot from a Cheï Levesque video capturing a belligerent SPVM riot cop very purposely lunging directly at Montreal photographer Robin Edgar and violently shoving him to the ground during the 2025 Collectif 15 mars protest against police brutality.
A screenshot from a Cheï Levesque video capturing a belligerent SPVM riot cop very purposely lunging directly at Montreal photographer Robin Edgar and violently shoving him to the ground during the 2025 Collectif 15 mars protest against police brutality.
A screenshot from a Cheï Levesque video capturing Montreal photographer Robin Edgar falling on his back after being violently shoved to the ground by a belligerent SPVM riot cop during the 2025 Collectif 15 mars protest against police brutality.
"One riot cop lunged directly at me. . . and very purposefully struck my camera"
I wonder if it was the same #SPVM #RiotCop who very purposely lunged directly at me & violently shoved me to the ground during the 2025 #Collectif15mars protest against #PoliceBrutality?
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#MySPVM
Good article.
I've been documenting the annual #IdesOfMarch protest against #PoliceBrutality for over a decade.
Thankfully there was no #PoliceViolence during this year's protest.
Lots of chalk was put to good use.
#Collectif15mars #15mars #BEI #MySPVM #SPAL #PolQC #PolMTL
youtu.be/E16pIwzZVW4
I documented the protests & vigils following the #SPVM #PoliceKilling of Nicholas Gibbs in #NDG.
In November 2017 I came across this "repurposed" 2017 municipal election campaign poster.
#MySPVM #PoliceBrutality #PoliceKillings #15mars #PolMTL #MTLpoli #CDNNDG #NDG
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A belligerent SPVM riot cop assaulting photographer-videographer Robin Edgar during the 2025 #15mars protest against police brutality in Montreal
A belligerent SPVM riot cop assaulting photographer-videographer Robin Edgar during the 2025 #15mars protest against police brutality in Montreal
A belligerent SPVM riot cop assaulting photographer-videographer Robin Edgar during the 2025 #15mars protest against police brutality in Montreal
Photographer-videographer Robin Edgar hitting the pavement with cameras flying after being violently pushed to the ground by a belligerent SPVM riot cop assaulting during the 2025 #15mars protest against police brutality in Montreal
One year ago today, Cheï Lévesque filmed a belligerent SPVM
#RiotCop assaulting me during the #15mars protest against #PoliceBrutality.
Hopefully today's #collectif15mars protest will have less #PoliceViolence, to say nothing of #PoliceStupidity.
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#SPVM #MySPVM
An anti-police brutality meme Robin Edgar created using an award winning Jacques Nadeau photo of three SPVM riot cops arresting an Extinction Rebellion protester during a climate change protest in Montreal. The French language text says: Les orientations stratégiques du SPVM La force d''être ensemble pour mieux sévir. Robin Edgar changed just one word in the SPVM's Copaganda. The motto of the SPVM is or was "Ensemble pour mieux servir" which means: "Together to better serve" Robin Edgar changed this SPVM motto to: "Ensemble pour mieux sévir" which means: "Together to better severely punish"
Hi Robin, as the youngest co-founder of #ExtinctionRebellion, and a disabled writer on revolution, strategy and community, you might like this meme I created using a Jacques Nadeau photo of three SPVM #RiotCops arresting an Extinction Rebellion protester during a protest in #Montreal.
#SPVM #MySPVM
Who knew that publicly criticizing a #Zionist influencer promoting the #EthnicCleansing of #Gaza on #SocialMedia could be a criminal form of #harassment?
The #SPVM & #DPCP have been UNjustly repressing our "Charter guaranteed" #rightsANDfreedoms for decades.
#MySPVM #PoliceRepression #FreeSpeech
LOL!
Back in 2015, #Montreal mayor Denis Coderre got 12/10. 🤣
youtu.be/as6viWPrGss
#FreedomOfSpeech #FreeSpeech #HumanRights #CharterRights #CivilRights #ManifEnCours #PoliceRepression #SPVM #MySPVM #MonSPVM #CMMTL #PolMTL #MTLpoli #DenisCoderre #SelfDelusion #MTLmoments #MontrealMoments
That's close to being the least of what happened to me. . .
The SPVM has brought bogus criminal charges against me multiple time in misguided efforts to suppress my "Charter guaranteed" #rightsANDfreedoms.
This happened to me last March 15th.
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#SPVM #MySPVM #PolMTL #MTLpoli
16 years ago I was arrested by a couple of rookie #SPVM cops for unpaid tickets. They deliberately drove me a long distance from where they had arrested me & threatened me with criminal charges & imprisonment during the drive. When I complained about this I was threatened with arrest again.
#MySPVM
"Pepper spray is one of the more unique lens filters in the technical repertoire of documentary photographers."
William Wilson
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#PhotoJournalism #PepperSprayIsTorture #PepperSpray #SPVM #MySPVM #PoliceBrutality #PoliceRepression #ManifEnCours #PolMTL #MTLpoli #CMMTL
An #SPVM cop approached William Wilson, lifted a can of #PepperSpray at his face. William held his breath, aimed his lens towards the #RiotCop & turned his face away from the nozzle. The high pressure stream of pepper spray impacted the left side of William's head & soaked his lens.
#MySPVM #PolMTL
Protest against GardaWorld ends in SPVM #PoliceViolence
Canada’s close ties to ongoing ICE operations and how resistance to #GardaWorld ended in the #SPVM pepper spraying, tear gassing and beating demonstrators.
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#ManifEnCours #MySPVM #PoliceRepression #PolMTL #CMMTL
"The protest drew people from the left-leaning party #QuébecSolidaire, #AmnestyInternational and union representatives. . ."
So that explains why Amnistie Internationale belatedly got around to denouncing SPVM #PoliceRepression of protests.
amnistie.ca/sinformer/20...
#SPVM #MySPVM #ManifEnCours
I'm well acquainted with the #SPVM, including its proclivity to repress #PeacefulPublicProtest & other "Charter protected" #rights&freedoms.
I'm not sure #MySPVM is "the worst police force in Canada", but its pretense to be the best #PoliceForce in #NorthAmerica is questionable.
#MonSPVM #PolMTL
“But then I was told that the outdoor cameras in the area haven’t been working. The officer who responded was very nice, but I’m still not thinking there will be any results.”
The #SPVM has done nothing when I have reported crimes that took place when CCTV security cameras were working.
#MySPVM
In related news. . . photographer-videographer & #PoliceWatchdog Robin Edgar was very forcefully thrust to the ground by an #SPVM #RiotCop while covering the annual protest against #PoliceBrutality in Montreal on March 15, 2025.
#MySPVM #MonSPVM #COBP #COPB #15mars #PolMTL
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Montreal activist encourages #Montrealers to wear their own #BodyCameras, other otherwise #FilmThePolice, when dealing with #SPVM cops, especially when there's a good chance they will behave badly. . .
#PoliceAccountability #BodyCams #MySPVM #MonSPVM #PolMTL #PolMun #PolQC
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I'm serious about photography, so I would think twice about bringing a #Leica, or another expensive camera, to document a protest where it is highly probable my camera(s) could be damaged. I've risked my #Nikons, but I also use inexpensive cameras that are "disposable" "riot cameras".
#SPVM #MySPVM
An SPVM riot cop violently shoves photographer and videographer, and police "watchdog" Robin Edgar onto the pavement during the annual COPB protest against #PoliceBrutality in Montreal on March 15th 2025.
An SPVM cop violently shoved me onto the pavement during a 2025 #COPB protest against #PoliceBrutality in #Montreal.
The shove could have seriously injured me given how hard I hit the pavement.
Watch the video in this X post to see this for yourself.
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#SPVM #MySPVM #PolMTL
A meme based on an award winning Jacques Nadeau photo of three SPVM riot cops torturing an Extinction Rebellion protester. The meme is captioned with a parody version of the SPVM's motto - Ensemble Pour Mieux Sévir
This is interesting.
I wonder if it's possible for the #AuditorGeneral of #Montréal to open investigations into actual assaults on people by city employees known as #SPVM police officers to determine if they breached Montreal's #CodeOfConduct or Charter.
#PoliceBrutality #MySPVM #MonSPVM #PolMTL
An SPVM riot cop aims a tear gas grenade launcher directly at a videographer documenting a protest from less than 10 feet away.
The #SPVM #RiotCop should not have aimed his teargas #GrenadeLauncher at you or anyone else period.
It is against the protocol for using teargas grenade launchers, but too many #RiotCops not only aim #GrenadeLaunchers at people, but fire them from close range.
#MySPVM #MonSPVM #PoliceViolence
An SPVM riot cop points his teargas grenade launcher direct at a photographer-videographer documenting a protest from less than 10 feet away.
Do you have any idea why #SPVM brass seem to have "understood" #ProjetMontréal would never enter into conflict with them?
I'm not impressed by how #ValériePlante & other PM politicians repeatedly refused to tell #MySPVM to stop intimidating & attacking photographers documenting protests.
#PolMTL
Police are not supposed to aim their teargas grenade launchers at people.
An #SPVM riot cop aimed his grenade launcher at me while I was documenting last year's #COBP protest against #PoliceBrutality & got called an asshole multiple times for doing so.
#MySPVM #MonSPVM #PoliceViolence #PolMTL
It was a spectacularly stupid & incompetent police intervention by the SPVM as far as I am concerned. . .
I'm not impressed with SPVM director Fady Dagher & other #SPVM spokespeople trying to spin this as the #police doing their job well.
#MySPVM #PoliceStupidity
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