Evoking memories of George Flyod, a video of a white police officer appearing to be kneeling on the neck of a Black teenager who is face down on the ground on a Montreal street went viral on the Internet.
The Canadian police said that they were investigating what happened after a video of the encounter drew an outcry from politicians and human rights advocates, many of whom expressed alarm over the way the 14-year-old appears to have been restrained.
Montreal police said that the encounter took place on June 10 after officers were called to the scene of a fight among 15 young people near a high school in Montreal’s Villeray neighborhood. They said that two of the youths were armed.