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MONTREAL — Police in Montreal made more than 150 arrests Thursday when an annual anti-police brutality march turned violent.

A police car was flipped over and smashed and numerous store-front windows destroyed when 2,000 protesters — a mix of students demonstrating against tuition hikes and citizens against police brutality — gathered for a rush hour march.

When some police officers appeared along the route, a few protesters started throwing rocks at them. At Aylmer and Sherbrooke streets, police fired off two loud sound grenades, sending a panic through the crowd. Protesters ran in all directions, but riot police formed a line, and banging on their shields with their batons, marched forward, shoving demonstrators north.

One man, trying to stop some young men from throwing rocks, was hit in the forehead with a tear-gas canister and it exploded.

Scott Weinstein, a nurse in the crowd who was providing first aid when needed, poured water over the man’s eyes, as he screamed in anger.