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Montreal police clashed with anti-capitalist protesters in downtown Montreal Sunday afternoon, forcing some stores to temporarily lock their doors and sending shoppers fleeing from smoke bombs and tear gas.

Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of protesters after coloured smoke bombs, fireworks, rocks and paint bombs were thrown at officers outside police Station 20 on Ste-Catherine St. W. around 4 p.m. Over the next hour, police cruisers raced around downtown trying to nab the troublemakers. Police made nine arrests, including four people on Mansfield St. Two officers and two protesters suffered minor injuries. Police say 10 of their vehicles ended up with flat tires, and another non-police vehicle was damaged. Among the projectiles found by police was a Molotov cocktail, they said.

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Many shoppers were surprised to see police patrolling Ste-Catherine St. on horseback. “What the hell is going on?” asked one shopper as he left the Eaton Centre and saw a police helicopter in the sky.