Policing Protest: Who Gets to Break the Law?
The criminalization of peaceful protests as violent conduct has become an increasingly concerning issue in Canada. The imposition of criminal language on protest action delegitimizes activism by framing it as violence, and in turn legitimizes police intervention against activists. The legal and rhetorical criminalization of protest, how the justice system redefines democratic participation as disorder and the proportionality between protest tactics and injustice they challeng
