Hundreds Of Protesters Arrested In Trudeau's Canada

Written By BlabberBuzz | Sunday, 20 February 2022 09:45 PM
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Hundreds Of Protesters Arrested In Trudeau's Canada

More than 100 protesters, including four organizers of the Freedom Convoy, have been apprehended by law enforcement and tactical teams from multiple Canadian jurisdictions attempting Friday to clear protests in the capital city.

Hundreds of truckers and thousands of protesters have gone to Ottawa over the past 22 days to protest COVID-19 restrictions.

Some convoy organizers issued calls to withdraw and told parents to keep their children at home. Others joined, refusing to move and yelling at the police officers tasked with getting them to leave.

Ottawa police said protesters had assaulted officers and attempted to take their weapons, according to two tweets posted Friday evening.

As the "assaultive behavior" persisted, police sent in officers on horseback to separate protesters from a police line.

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"As this was happening a bicycle was thrown at the feet of one of the horses in an attempt to injure it," the tweet reads. "One person was arrested for intentionally harming a police service animal."

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Another officer suffered a minor injury, but no protesters were wounded, interim Police Chief Steve Bell said earlier in the day. He added that authorities will "continue to push forward to take control of our streets" and will work "day and night until this is completed."

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The crackdown against protesters began late Thursday with the detentions of organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber.

Barber, 46, of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, has been charged with counseling to commit the offense of mischief, counseling to commit the offense of disobeying a court order, and counseling to commit the crime of blocking police. Lich, 49, of Medicine Hat, Alberta, was also charged with counseling to execute the offense of mischief. Key convoy figures Pat King and Daniel Bulford have also been arrested.

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In downtown Ottawa, police, some wearing riot gear and others armed with automatic weapons, walked into the protest zone around Parliament Hill. Throughout the day, they arrested protesters who refused to leave. They also began towing large trucks that had been parked in the downtown core for three weeks. Many convoy supporters showed up, carrying flags and yelling at officers.

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"This is a sad day for Canada," Marie Saunders told the Washington Examiner.

A few counter protesters also came, praising officers for "doing their job" and "keeping the peace."

Promising a very different weekend from the last three, Bell said Thursday that police would take a much stronger approach to the demonstrations that began after a group of Canadian truckers and their supporters drove from Western Canada to Ottawa to challenge a regulation that requires truckers returning from the United States to show proof of vaccination.

If the truckers are not fully vaccinated, they will be subjected to COVID-19 testing and quarantine requirements. Those same requirements exist on the U.S. side of the border.

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