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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 13:24:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: O Canada kept playing: "native leaders arrived to calm the crowd"
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POLICE BREAK UP NATIVE PROTEST AT MANITOBA LEGISLATURE
Canadian Press, April 6, 1999
WINNIPEG (CP) - Police in riot gear used pepper spray to beat back
several hundred protesters who stormed the Manitoba legislature
Tuesday. Some were also arrested after breaking past the 40 officers
and into the building.
The protesters, who were mainly aboriginal, were demonstrating at the
opening of the spring session of the legislature.
Those who managed to break through police lines were arrested in the
foyer and led away in handcuffs.
Police used pepper spray in the foyer to clear the crowd, hitting at
least one person.
But it failed, sending clouds of pepper spray back into the building.
A military band, meanwhile, could be heard playing O Canada above the
fray.
Order was restored about 20 minutes after the protest began after
native leaders arrived to calm the crowd.
The protesters were demonstrating for jobs, better housing and roads
and want the province, not the federal government, to have
responsibility for the welfare of status Indians.
The protesters repeated the same demands they had two weeks ago when
they stormed Premier Gary Filmons office.
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