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Montreal mom demands apology for police intervention at sons’ lemonade stand

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Their secret recipe has helped raise more than $1,500 dollars.Things took an unfortunate and unexpected turn on Saturday, however.“To have such a beautiful story turn into such a nightmare disaster like it did yesterday, I was shaking,” Ayana recounted on Sunday.The mother says the boys were periodically using a megaphone to attract customers, and one angry man angrily approached them.“He said, ‘you little mother-effers.

I’m going to shut you down.’ So I told him to get the hell off my property. And he said, ‘I’m calling the police,'” she claims.Minutes later, she says police arrived and told her the stand must be shut down.“I tell him, ‘look, officer, give me a fine.

I’ll pay the fine.’ He said, ‘oh I’m not giving you a fine. You think that because you’re in a wheelchair, you’re above the law,'” she said.She says the officer threatened to arrest her, so she started recording.“The guy had his hand on his holster telling me that I’m aggressive and I told him to get off my property.

He refused,” she said of her interaction with an officer.Three hours later, she says police left“It ended with this sergeant telling me my kids are not allowed to have their megaphone and that they don’t want to have to come back here and arrest me,” she said.Montreal police said they would not be in a position to comment on the case on Sunday, explaining more analysis would be needed before they issue any kind of statement.Retired Montreal police officer André Durocher wondered if the mother unnecessarily escalated the situation.

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