Video: Montreal police pepper spraying bar patrons during protest melee

MONTREAL – Montreal police are being criticized over an altercation caught on video that shows a group of patrons on a patio bar getting pepper sprayed during a protest Saturday night.

Surveillance footage, being played in a loop today on one of Quebec’s all-news stations, shows several people sprayed by riot police at close range.

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The footage shows customers scrambling to get inside the bar as a police officer knocks over tables and chairs.

Another video from a local TV station shows the officers took action after one was hit by a flying chair.

Martin Guimond, the owner of the bar, says police went too far and he’s considering taking legal action.

There is a protest underway today in Montreal against Quebec’s new emergency law aimed at putting an end to the student conflict.