Oka residents teargassed during police assault
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Oka resident Georges Peerillard will long remember the police assault on the Kanesatake blockade of Highway 344.
He saw everything from his vantage point at the bottom of the hill, where he lives.
But he paid a price for seeing Canadian history in the making.
Perillard said he, another Oka man and a police officer were accidentally teargassed during the assault, which came at quarter to five in the morning.
It was cal "but when they pitched it, the wind started just a little bit, enough for the gas to come into the village."