The police must be preparing some manœuvre: they won't stand here forever while their colleagues are gasing the crowd. We think their unit is going to move towards René-Lévesque to disperse or arrest people.
Maybe she's right, the woman who just suggested to wait here by the police? After all, we're honest citizens, there is nothing hostile about our behaviour, on the contrary. People around us are absolutely peaceful. There are young people as well as older people, like this slim lady in her early sixties, I'd say, wearing a sports outfit. A man is sitting on a doorstep, holding a sign that says on one side, "$ IS NOT THE BOTTOM LINE" - and on the other: "DANCE UPON INJUSTICE". My friend and I also decide to sit down on a porch. We're getting more and more tired. We think that when the police wall eventually moves forward, they'll march in front of us without paying much attention to our presence. Haven't they seen that we're peaceful? Moreover, since we're sitting on a porch, we're not blocking their way at all. Once they'll have past, we'll be able to go home to my mother's.