No charges to be laid in Montreal North riot, police confirm

No one will be charged in connection with an Aprilriot inMontreal North that damaged several cars and a police station.

Montreal police confirmed Friday that theyclosed the file on the protest that turned violent. They refused to provide further comment.

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The riot broke out following apeaceful vigil to denounce the death Bony Jean-Pierre, who died during a police raid in which almost a dozen people were arrested.

Following the riot, the head of the police union said officers were given orders not to intervene, even as cars were being torched and bricks were being lobbed at Police Station 39.

A bank was also set ablaze.

"Know that police officers did not at all appreciate the order to keep their arms crossed,"YvesFrancoeur,president of the Montreal Police Brotherhood, wrote in a letter to Montreal Mayor DenisCoderreat the time.

Montreal police chiefPhilippePichethasacknowledged the force opted to take a less visible approach in responding to the violence.

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