Police Busted Trying to Start Riot

Observant protesters busted the police using agents provocateurs at the North American leaders' summit in Montebello, Que.

This video shows the confrontation between the protesters and three police undercover officers acting as agents provocateurs trying to cause a disturbance at this past weekend's North American leaders' summit.

The Toronto Star reports:

Protesters are accusing police of using undercover agents to provoke violent confrontations at the North American leaders' summit in Montebello, Que.

Such accusations have been made before after similar demonstrations but this time the alleged "agents provocateurs" have been caught on camera.

The three are confronted by protest organizer Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada. Coles makes it clear the masked men are not welcome among his group of protesters, whom he describes as mainly grandparents.

The three subjects then pushed their way through the police line and were shoved to the ground and "arrested".

While laying on the ground a photographer snapped a picture revealing that the bottom of the boots worn by the provocateurs are identical to bottom of the boots of the uniformed officers making the "arrest".

Late Tuesday, photographs taken by another protester surfaced, showing the trio lying prone on the ground. The photos show the soles of their boots adorned by yellow triangles. A police officer kneeling beside the men has an identical yellow triangle on the sole of his boot.

Kevin Skerrett, a protester with the group Nowar-Paix, said the photos and video together present powerful evidence that the men were actually undercover police officers.

"I think the circumstantial evidence is very powerful," he said.

Police records show that only four protesters were arrested during the protest. All four persons arrested were known to protest organizers yet no record exists of the three "arrested" in the video:

Veteran protester Jaggi Singh, who is helping to circulate the video as widely as possible, said all four of those arrested are known to organizers and are genuine protesters.

"But we see very clearly in that video three (other) men being arrested . . . How do (police) account for these three people being taken in, being arrested? Where did they go?" Singh said.

"I have no hesitation in saying they were police agents . . . and they were caught red-handed."

Check out the photo yourself.
Compare the boot bottoms of the officer kneeling to those of the boots visible on two of the "arrestees".
(Click on the photos to enlarge them.)

Full Toronto Star Article

This is another photo showing the boots of the third "arrestee" and a second uniformed officer - all the boots match!