Two PhD students walking home after a night out in Montreal’s west end decided to skirt around a police operation by stepping into the empty road.
Within minutes they found themselves slammed against a fence in what they say was a violent arrest — one with his arms twisted to the near breaking point and the other his legs spread so far apart that his pants tore and both his knees were injured.
“It was confusing because I didn’t really understand what was going on,” said Amaechi Okafor, a Black man from Nigeria who came to Montreal three years ago to pursue
