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A Concordia University student who is suing the Montreal police suffered injuries Friday night during an anti-austerity protest when, she alleges, she was pushed to the ground by an undercover cop who was pretending to be part of the demonstration.

Katie Nelson, 23, said she was taken to a hospital by ambulance after having been shoved from behind by someone she says was an undercover police officer dressed to blend in with about 100 anti-austerity protesters who took part in a demonstration in downtown Montreal.

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Nelson, who studies philosophy and human rights, said she was pushed after warning fellow protesters that a small group of people, who were dressed in black and wearing black masks, were actually police officers. She said she realized this after one of the men removed his mask and she recognized the officer who had arrested her in the past and is also one of the people named in a $24,000 lawsuit she filed against the city in 2013. The civil suit is scheduled to have an 18-day trial in June at the Montreal courthouse.