Police Plants at Montebello Decried

Protesters showed what they say is evidence that police "agents provocateurs" tried to incite violence at the world leaders' summit on Monday.
A YouTube video called Stop SPP Protest, with photographs of phoney protesters being arrested, were offered yesterday as proof that police officers were planted in the crowd.

"I think it's imperative that the Canadian public see what the Security and Prosperity Partnership is really about," said Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada.
He called the police and federal government agents "goons".
"This is the face of it, where people can't even ask a question without having to face these kinds of goons." In the video, three men with bandanas over their faces were surrounded by a crowd of protesters. Coles confronts the men, telling them to leave the area where protesters were staging a sit-in.

In the video the crowd closes in on thethree "goons"who then quickly retreated to the line of Quebec riot police, where they say something to the officers. They then walk through the line where they are arrested and led away. Photos taken by a protester show the men lying on the ground being handcuffed. The yellow markings and treads on the bottom of their boots are identical to the officers arresting them.

The union has asked that Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Quebec Premier Jean Charest answer questions about the men.
"We can ensure that the RCMP does not use tactics that would encourage confrontation or incite violence," said RCMP Cpl. Luc Bessette.
Planting undercover police officers in a crowd of demonstrators is common practice.