Canadian police use pepper spray, stun grenades in push to clear capital
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Via: hallux • 2 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
It is a text book example of what secular progressives everywhere particularly in America wish for and hope to do to their conservative opposition. Total police state fascists in action in Ottawa.
Comment 1.2 is an example of true fascist propaganda.
And the people who lived/worked in the area ... What of them? Should they have pulled a Patricia and Mark McCloskey stunt?
add in stupidity and ignorance and we have the trifecta.
Police state fascists would have put an end to it on day one.
Believe me I’m glad that the protesters who stayed long enough did so so that they could expose the true nature of the Canadian regime and it’s urban secular progressive elites smashing a labor action like the true fascists that they are. I’ll never visit Canada again so long as black face Trudeau and his party are in power.
No where near to the extent that comment 1.2.1 is as you describe above.
I'm sure that the Canadians are really upset about that. On second thought they are probably relieved since they already have more than enough militia type and they are running out of room in their jails.
I'm already missing you.
Morning xx..
Well your travel itinerary is getting less and less..
Won't come to Australia because we have a Gulag set up for the unvaccinated in Melbourne and the Northern Territory. The dogs and crocs are well fed..I promise they won't bite.
Not going to Canada because the ferals are being cleaned out..and you can add New Zealand to the list now..that freedumb rally was hijacked by the "unvaccinated" mob who are now living in mud and squalor..
The cops are also in the process of removing the "unwashed and unvaccinated" from Wellington..so much for staying until the law of the land changes...in your dreams xx.
For once the majourity rule the minority..and we love it.
Canada will do the same happy dance that they did when they gave us Beiber.
Oh no some complete stranger of no importance who no Canadian even knew or cared existed won't be coming to visit. The horror! lmao
I see that in minute 32 that you changed your post after you were informed by a friend that your post was flagged for singling me out by name for insult
For someone that supports militia threats to members of the Board of Supervisors in Redding, one of which had been the Chief of Police you have no credibility at all. Any name you are called is fitting and well deserved.
BTW the reason that I never flag your comments is that I love to see the ignorance of them stand so all of NT and our readers can review them and think, oh what dumbass comments.
Poutine sales will plummet! Oh the humanity!
Lol take my life, take my liberty but don't take my poutine (or maple syrup)
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
Freaking jackasses both!
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.
Maybe now they will simply not travel at all to certain jurisdictions. I can’t imagine truckers looking forward to making deliveries to Ottawa. They don’t have to be in Ottawa to mess with it.
Completely reasonable and long overdue. Probably better than a bullet to the neck, too.
Like this:
How convenient. /s