Busted

by titocurtis

Last night I skipped work to grab a beer with my friend Parker at Grumpy’s and within a few minutes we spoke to two different people who’ve been arrested during demonstrations.

The Canadian Press is reporting that at least 2,500 have been rounded up since the beginning of the 102-day-old crisis. Henry Gass (who was arrested alongside 517 others two nights ago) wrote that the Montreal Police have detained 1,589 people so far.

I remember walking home the other night around 2 a.m. and all I could hear was the SQ Helicopter and the echo of a thousand clanging pots and pans from miles away. That night, a handful of reporters were arrested alongside more than 500 others on the corner of Sherbrooke and St. Denis. It’s crazy how banal its become to see hundreds riot police whizzing through the city or to hear the explosion of stun grenades echoing into the night.

Surreal, man… f**king surreal.