{"id":916066,"date":"2026-10-01T02:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916066\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T02:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:54:11","slug":"legal-clinics-launch-court-challenge-against-montreal-bylaw-barring-people-from-insulting-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916066\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal clinics launch court challenge against Montreal bylaw barring people from insulting police officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Legal clinics are challenging the City of Montreal\u2019s new bylaw against insulting police officers and other municipal employees, seeking to have it declared invalid and its application stayed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The clinics announced the legal challenge Wednesday, arguing the bylaw violates freedom of expression and could enable police to discriminate people based on political beliefs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe believe this bylaw stifles freedom of expression and risks creating further tension and repression,\u201d lawyer B\u00e9atrice Allard of l\u2019Association des juristes progressistes said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legal clinics are challenging the City of Montreal\u2019s new bylaw against insulting police officers and other municipal employees,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-916066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}