The police had stopped a bus that was about to leave for Quebec City, taking protesters back home, and sorted the protesters out in the street as they went through their possessions trying to figure out which ones they could arrest.
…The number of Charter of Rights and Freedoms violations that were committed here is beyond belief, and you can’t help but think that police, who are trained to know what the law will and won’t allow in detention and search procedures, knew that most of their arrests would be invalidated very quickly. Not that this stopped them from doing so.
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