Canadian police use pepper spray, stun grenades in push to clear capital
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Via: hallux • 4 years ago • 48 commentsBy: Steve Scherer and Carlos Osorio
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OTTAWA, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Canadian police on Saturday used pepper spray and stun grenades in a final push to clear the capital of trucks and demonstrators who have occupied the downtown core of Ottawa for more than three weeks to protest against pandemic restrictions.
After clearing a portion of the blockade and making more than 100 arrests on Friday, 47 more arrests were made on Saturday morning as police moved quickly to disperse the main portion of the blockade in front of parliament and the prime minister's office.
"We told you to leave. We gave you time to leave. We were slow and methodical, yet you were assaultive and aggressive with officers," police said in a statement to the truckers posted on Twitter. Police used loudspeakers to warn the crowd to disperse or face arrest.
Protest organizers for the so-called Freedom Convoy said they had asked trucks to withdraw because of heavy-handed police tactics, and many trucks did exit the downtown core on Saturday. Thirty-eight vehicles have been towed, police said.
Officers smashed vehicle windows to arrest people locked inside, but the overall number of protesters has dwindled dramatically compared with previous days, with a couple hundred remaining near the advancing police cordon.
Some of those arrested on Saturday wore body armor and had smoke grenades and other …
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Other than 100 or so hardcore protesters looking for Youtube fame, this is basically over.
A few observations from having watched live broadcasts over the past 24 hours:
There are at this point probably more journalists milling around than protestors or police.
I saw no evidence of police brutality despite what some of the protestors are claiming. Horses trampled no one, but on the other hoof, a protestor threw a bicycle at a horse. (Apparently Gulliver's Travels is no longer taught in Eng. Lit.)
This is the first day in a month I have not seen an American Flag.
In Ottawa the weather is cold and windy, basically one of those ubiquitous Canadian winter days that makes one stamp their feet and start wondering about the sanity of the organizers.
It's over FOX, don't forget to inform the cast and crew.
cool, now those free dumb warriors can pack up and fuck off.
Some of them will be charged with hefty crimes. Other than one or two days waiting for plea/bail hearings, I doubt there will be any jail time administered. Fines will be hefty and many will find that their cell phone bills are much higher.
The fines could be as high as $100,000.
Lol Paula it's kinda comically karmic, they'll have to get the jab in order to work to pay off the fines from protesting the jab
Wait till they get the bills for towing their vehicles and cleaning up their 'camp'.
I always copy and paste the whole articles even if it takes a few minutes more since I'm aware that not all web sites will open for all people. It's just a common courtesy.
Good, it's finally done a bit late in my opinion, but it is what it is.
Perhaps now that it's over Laura Ingram will show up braving the cold.
I saw her last night, not having Hillarygate to rant and rail over, she chose Justin ... she's about to become a persona non grata.
Old hat .... try harder
Send me a pic of yourself, I'll photoshop you in.
Actually his father and Fidel were good friends. Fidel came to his funeral. Justin's father had no love for Nixon, and I'm sure he would have despised Trump.
The irony of some folks support of these government actions is crazy. Especially after their direct or tacit support of all the rioters, looters and malcontents from the summer of love.
Quite amazing really.
The hypocrisy is great, isn't it?
During the riots of 2020, you had cops in Seattle and Portland told to stand down and give looters and rioter their space. If one of them dared to fire any type of spray, the snowflake leftists screamed at the sky, demanded charges to the cops, lit [police precincts on fire, some repeatedly, and started the "defund the police" joke that will a big part of taking down the democratic party this November,
Here we see those same leftists cheering the cops firing tear gas and trampling protesters.
These are big reasons why most Americans can't stand the American left...and rightly so.
Seattle and Portland are not in Canada.
So true, people are free to protest in Seattle and Portland.
On average there are some 40 protests in Ottawa every year over whatever strikes a protestor's fancy. The current gang of narcissists may have ruined it for the other 39.
Ruin it did they?
What a cerebral move that would be for our little brother to the north.
So?
The loons on the left are the same no matter what country.
I’m fine with the gas, etc. but I would have also been fine with it in Seattle and Portland and D.C. (especially in June 2020). I mean this shit is either ok or it’s not. I have no problem with people demonstrating for what they want, but when you start clogging up the roads and messing with other people’s lives and livelihoods, it’s time to pull out the gas, pepper spray, and so on.
I agree, Its the double standard the partisan have that is the real problem. Myself I would have made a judicious use of the taser dance on the really unruly ones. In both cases. Riding the lightning would have fixed them real quick.
The truckers were screwing with commerce and people’s lives by shutting the roads down. Enough was enough.
Completely reasonable and long overdue. Probably better than a bullet to the neck, too.