回复: 今天看新闻，说蒙城今天发生骚乱，具体什么情况啊？
zt Public inquiry sought in Montreal shooting
August 12, 2008 at 12:11 PM EDT
MONTREAL A Montreal-based race-relations group is calling for a public inquiry into the police shooting of an 18-year-old.
The Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations said Tuesday that a Quebec provincial police inquiry into the death of Fredy Villanueva would not be transparent enough.
The group wants a public inquiry that would allow witnesses to testify, and which would shed light on what exactly happened.
A Montreal police officer shot Mr. Villanueva in a park last Saturday.
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There are conflicting reports on the circumstances leading to the shooting, with police saying that they felt threatened by a group of 20 youths.
The death sparked widespread looting and vandalism a day later in the north-end neighbourhood where Mr. Villanueva was shot.
Provincial police are to hold a news conference later Tuesday to discuss their investigation.
On Monday, hundreds of people milled about ransacked shops in Montreal North, where many argued over who is to blame for the slaying of a teen by police and the riot that followed on the weekend.
”What happened in the riot is one-hundredth of what should happen, what will happen,” said Lambert Ronald, a 49-year-old man who held court as tow trucks hauled away burned-out vehicles a few metres away.
Ludny Jean-Philippe, a nursing student and mother of a six-year-old girl, watched the parade as downtown politicians and high-placed police officials strode through her neighbourhood promising security and answers.
Down the block, city workers used chainsaws to cut down trees singed by burning cars as dozens of police stood watch, measured crime scenes and questioned neighbours.
”The kids insult the cops and pretend to be surprised when they get a reaction,” Ms. Jean-Philippe said. ”The police have the unfortunate tendency to lump everyone with brown skin into some street gang when, in reality, most people here study hard and work hard.
”There is a real failure to communicate, on both sides.”
Alexandre Monsef watched as workers boarded up a looted convenience store and pizza parlour in a building he owns. He pointed to an intersection about 20 metres away where he says police watched as the businesses were robbed and arsonists tried to torch the building.
”On Saturday, the cops overreact and shoot three young guys who did nothing wrong; on Sunday they do nothing while this happens,” Mr. Monsef said.
The weekend violence started Saturday evening when police interrupted a dice game to arrest Dany Villanueva, a 20-year-old whose court record shows he is out on bail pending trial on a charge of armed robbery.
When Mr. Villanueva resisted, his brother, Fredy Alberto Villaneuva, 18, approached the struggle and yelled at officers to stop. An officer opened fire, killing the younger Villanueva and wounding two others.
”I heard my brother say, ‘What are you doing to my brother?' and then I heard gunshots,” Dany Villanueva said yesterday, breaking into tears.
He admitted he overreacted when he resisted the initial police approach, but maintained he did nothing wrong. His brother had a clean record.
”My brother tried to help me and now he's dead,” Mr. Villanueva said.
A protest against police that started peacefully Sunday night degenerated over several hours with arson, looting and gunfire.
An ambulance worker and three officers were injured, including one who was shot in the leg. None of the injuries were considered serious.
Eight vehicles were torched, two fire trucks damaged and countless businesses were vandalized or robbed. Six people were arrested, though police say they have documented 20 breaking and entering instances and 40 instances of mischief.
Mayor Gérald Tremblay promised to push the province, which is now charged with the investigation, for an open airing of the facts as he offered his condolences to the Villanueva family.
Provincial police investigating the shooting offered no new details on Monday. Public Security Minister Jacques Dupuis promised in a statement that results will eventually be shared with the public. He did not say if a public inquiry would be the forum.
Montreal Police Chief Yvan Delorme acknowledged that the force has bridges to repair and asked for neighbourhood help.
In Montreal North, the oblong municipal borough situated along the Rivière des Prairies, in the northeastern part of the island, immigrants make up 33 per cent of the population. People milling around slum apartment buildings sprinkled with tidy duplexes yesterday blamed poverty, street gangs, ”the system” and other ethnic groups for the violence.
Men and women who were quick to identify themselves as Haitians, Arabs, Latinos or Québécois all seemed to share at least one target: the police.
With a report from Les Perreaux
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但真的不能因为一次骚乱就否定大气候.哪里都有那么些不和谐的因素,轮到个人头上是百分之百,在政府工作报告中就是个百分比.警察也是人,哪里都有那么些"坏"孩子.但在他的父母和朋友 眼里,他就是个"好"孩子,"好"哥们.你说呢?
,是呀，看到有的贴说不好的和好的都是在讨论，大家很平和。观查了一段时间，感觉房同志一定有个心结，而这个心结很早就有了（是在另一个很长的贴上），房同志念念不忘呀，希望大家还是已开导为主，光吵是没啥效果的，只能适得其反，讲道理也是功效甚微。关键还是要把房同志的心结给解了，这才是正题。