[4] Officers were initially unable to find any alcohol and left the premises but returned about 15 minutes later, at which point they forced Sex Garage's 400 patrons to evacuate.

It is believed that one partygoer, Bruce Buck, was the first person to be assaulted after he tried to go back into the venue to retrieve his leather jacket.

"[4] However eventually the police began pursuing Hammond, at which point she managed to throw her camera to another patron as they were fleeing the scene.

[6] Hours after the raid victims of the assault, along with other citizens of Montreal, held a sit-in at Saint Catherine Street to protest the night's events.

[3][5] The protesters disbanded after they were promised that police chief Alain St-Germain would meet them the following day at downtown Station 25.

[6] The brutality of the assault against the Sex Garage patrons and protesters is also credited with bringing the Montreal LGBT community together and with alerting other citizens of the unfair treatment of gays and lesbians.