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This happened in Montreal yesterday.

TLDR crowd: A homeless man was fucking up some trashcans around 7 am. the police came and he had a knife. they chased him in front of a hospital and shot him and a hospital worker who was coming to work on his bike.



http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/06/08/montreal-police-shooting.html

Quote :

" Hospital worker ID'd as bystander killed by police A 36-year-old hospital worker was on his way to work — possibly on his bicycle — when he was fatally shot by Montreal police who opened fire on a homeless man they were pursuing in the downtown core, according to details released Wednesday. Patrick Limoges was on his way to work at St. Luc Hospital on Tuesday morning when he was killed by a stray bullet, after police fired on the homeless man, Mario Hamel, who they had been pursuing near the corner of St-Denis and Ste-Catherine streets. Hamel also died. Officers had confronted Hamel on St. Denis while Limoges was on the other side of the street, police said Wednesday. There are reports the hospital worker may have been on a bicycle when he was shot. A bike was found near the spot where he fell. Employees at the hospital didn't want to publicly speak to media, but said the death is shocking and that they feel any one of them could have been the one killed. At the time of the shooting, police were after Hamel, 40, who they say was brandishing a knife. He was shot, and like Limoges, died in hospital. The incident began when a police officer approached a man who was allegedly disturbing the peace and overturning garbage cans around 6:40 a.m. ET Tuesday. Hamel had been living at the Maison Eugénie-Bernier, a shelter for homeless people run by the Welcome Hall Mission on St. Denis. Officials there say he had been receiving psychological help and was able to get himself off the street. However, one of the mission's co-ordinators said his mental health problems seemed to be getting worse. "Up until about a few weeks ago there was no problem, but then he realized he wasn't doing so well. We tried to help him see a doctor, but he refused, said Lise Ouellette, who added that Hamel was "never physically aggressive." with the staff or clients. "He had made some progress," the mission's director general Aubin Boudreau said. "It's a shame his life ended like this." Provincial police are investigating the actions of the Montreal police. It's not the first time this year that city officers have been investigated after fatal shooting incidents. In January and February, the force was involved in three incidents over three weeks, two of them resulting in deaths."

how many cops out there are crazy?

6/8/2011 11:59:15 AM

6/8/2011 12:06:38 PM

When I picture this I envision Cops on horses riding down the street randomly shooting at a homeless man in a group of pedestrians.













With antique rifles ofc.

6/8/2011 12:28:11 PM

Also:

http://www.news10.net/news/article/141072/2/Dept-of-Education-breaks-down-Stockton-mans-door

Education officials break down Stockton man's door

Quote :

"The U.S. Department of Education issued the search and called in S.W.A.T for his wife's defaulted student loans. "

You'd think they could've just called Vinny and Roco.

6/8/2011 12:42:19 PM

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=610687&page=3

[Edited on June 8, 2011 at 12:46 PM. Reason : ]

6/8/2011 12:45:33 PM

We've annexed Canada eh?

6/9/2011 4:55:29 PM

This stuff is really troubling.

As the economy worsens, families will be less and less able to take care of their loved ones with mental illnesses. And, at the same time, politicians feel the need to tighten our collective belt and cut back on services to folks with mental illnesses. And the police have taken to killing homeless people who get rowdy on the street. This is not a good combination.

6/9/2011 5:57:26 PM

OH MAH BridgetSPK needs to use her critical reading skills.


I hope I was just trolled.

6/9/2011 6:30:18 PM

^?

I'm not trying to comment on the specific story. I'm looking for broader themes and whatnot.

6/10/2011 2:12:36 AM

how many "fuck the police" threads do we really need? it absolutely sucks an innocent bystander was hit, but you act like it was intentional.

6/10/2011 8:03:56 PM

this is what socialized health care gets you.

6/10/2011 10:14:11 PM