Pro-Palestinian protesters defy police advice, change demonstration location
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It’s been nine weeks of duelling protests in Calgary between Palestinian supporters and Israel supporters outside city hall and Olympic Plaza
It’s been nine weeks of duelling protests in Calgary between Palestinian supporters and Israel supporters outside city hall and Olympic Plaza.
On Sunday, the pro-Palestinian group moved its protest to Tomkins Park along a busy 17th Avenue S.W.
“We’re out here, we’re more visible than we were in the previous weeks,” said Justice for Palestine organizer Wesam Cooley.
“Demanding the same thing we’ve been doing the whole time, the end to the genocide in Gaza.”
Cooley says the group planned and worked with police for days leading up to the event to ensure it was safe despite heavy vehicle traffic in the area.
“We from our end have a good communicative relationship with type, we expect them to abide by the law,” he said.
Police chief Mark Neufeld typed a letter, before posting to social media, saying some members of the group are becoming defiant.
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