Videos: Pro-Palestinian Protestors at University of Calgary Follow American Example – Learn The Hard Way That Canadian Police Are Not Messing Around
City police brought a pro-Palestinian encampment on the University of Calgary campus to a swift end in a barrage of tear gas and flash bangs late Thursday.
The protesters had set up a tent camp surrounded by wooden palettes on MacEwan Hall’s south lawn early Thursday morning and had engaged in peaceful activism calling for the university to divest itself of any Israeli-linked investments during the course of a warm, sunny day.
But the activists galvanized by Israeli attacks on Gaza had been warned by both police and U of C officials that they were trespassing and that their encampment would be removed. Participating students said they were also threatened with sanctions from the U of C.
“Members of the campus community are free to protest but they are not free to camp,” the university said in a statement earlier Thursday.
At around 8:30 p.m., police officers including tactical team members and others equipped in riot gear moved into the camp’s southern perimeter, pulling down some of the palettes and hurling aside a few of the roughly 20 tents erected by demonstrators.
That began a standoff that lasted for nearly three hours as activists and police discussed bringing an end to the encampment while activists chanted and taunted police who showed up in considerable numbers as a CPS helicopter circled overhead.
“This is not a negotiation,” said one officer.
That same officer who spoke to activists in urging them to depart said peaceful protest on campus was fine but their barricades wouldn’t be tolerated.
Then at around 11:10, after numerous warnings by police that arrests were imminent if protesters didn’t leave the campus, officers began forcefully pushing back the line of activists with their shields before loosing tear gas.
Some of the activists tried to resist being shoved back.
The Canadian police acted tougher than the Texas
PD in this case!
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🇨🇦This is the University of Calgary…
Canadian police are not messing around. pic.twitter.com/e0pxcM4vCE
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 10, 2024
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Shameful.
Shame on Calgary police. Shame on University of Calgary. pic.twitter.com/YY2rRtj5sf
— Private Investigator (@Top1Rating) May 10, 2024
From earlier on at the University of Calgary Campus. The thugs at the Calgary Police harassing peaceful student protesterspic.twitter.com/FBfgbtXTYy
— Private Investigator (@Top1Rating) May 10, 2024
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