{"id":935768,"date":"2026-10-17T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/935768\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T00:02:09","slug":"montreal-police-officer-suspended-over-reports-of-urinating-on-unhoused-person-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/935768\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal police officer suspended over reports of urinating on unhoused person downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two Montreal police officers have been suspended following reports that one urinated on at least one unhoused person while on duty and another photographed a suspect in a \u201chumiliating\u201d position, police said Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The officers, both assigned to Station 21, located on Berri St. in downtown Montreal, were suspended in recent weeks over the separate incidents, as <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lapresse.ca\/actualites\/grand-montreal\/2026-10-16\/centre-ville-de-montreal\/un-policier-suspendu-pour-avoir-urine-sur-un-sans-abri.php\">first reported by La Presse<\/a>. The station serves Old Montreal and eastern downtown, where many unhoused people live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both suspensions are with pay and the police department\u2019s professional standards division is now conducting internal investigations, not criminal ones, according to Jean-Pierre Brabant, a Montreal police spokesperson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Montreal police officers have been suspended following reports that one urinated on at least one unhoused person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-935768","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\/935768","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=935768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}