This organization consists of victims, witnesses, representatives of ethnic communities, marginalized youth, small political groups, the homeless, sex workers, LGBTQ+, drug users, and others who have questions about police authority.
The protest occurred on August 19, 1995, when Human Life International (HLI), a Catholic pro-life organization, visited Montreal, Quebec.
The information contained in the booklets is based on Canadian laws as well as on the rules and regulations applying to police forces in Quebec.
[5] C.O.B.P intervenes when people are unaware of their rights, helping with the steps required to obtain justice in cases of police brutality.
[10] The Canadian cities that take part in the IDAPB (International Day Against Police Brutality) demonstrations are Belleville, Calgary, Guelph, Trois-Rivières, Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg and Vancouver.
[15][16] Key events in recent years that have influenced C.O.B.P organizers of the IDAPB protest in Montreal include: When considering the International Day Against Police Brutality, mainstream media offers event based news coverage and editorial content, focusing on arrests, disorders, accounts of the day's actions.
It also provides many stories from primary definers, such as police and municipal officials who often project a seeming and somewhat self-sustaining public consensus which casts the protest as airing a valid concern but as incoherent and misguided in its tactics.,[21] Alternative coverage tends to be more sympathetic to the aims of the C.O.B.P, with reports on their efforts more often found within activist blogs, social networks, video and picture uploads and both student run and local weekly newspapers.
Student run newspapers are viewed as alternative by providing factual reporting otherwise unavailable, as well as furnishing efforts at interpretation indicating an examination of power dynamics.