The peaceful protest in Ottawa turned violent over the weekend but not how the nets like to claim. Protesters remained peaceful but under the orders of the rotten prince Justin Trudeau, police were sent in to break up protesters at all costs.
During that procedure, the mounted police were brought in and two protesters were trampled under the feet of their horses. One of those victims happened to be an elderly woman with a walker but the Ottawa Police Chief claimed the act was justified:
“They faced a barrage of resistance, shoving and vitriol. We all saw that the protesters were aggressive with the officers and we needed to use horses at one point,” Police Chief Steven Bell said at the conference. “As a result, we responded this morning by adding helmets and batons to our equipment for the safety of our officers.
He continued, “Our officers continued to face resistance at one point, a flare was ignited by a protester. Officers used a chemical irritant also known as pepper spray, to disperse unlawful demonstrators who were resisting police orders. Sadly, we again saw young children being brought to the unlawful demonstration and to the front of our police.”
Reporters questioned Bell on rumors and video that purported to show violent clashes between the horse-mounted officers and protesters.
“What I can indicate is there was two members of the protesters who did collide with the horses. They fell down,” Bell told the reporters. “They immediately got back up and started to again engage in their protest and demonstration activity. That is one of the circumstances where as we monitor it, we’re identifying this information as quickly as we can, providing accurate, real information about what is occurring on the ground.”
On Twitter, Ottawa police claimed that a bicycle was thrown under one of the horses in an attempt to hurt the animal. That’s a lie. As you will see in the footage their ‘bicycle’ is the wheeled walker used by the elderly protester. The footage also proves that she did not throw her walker under the horse.
Another camera angle of the incident shows the elderly woman trampled by police horse in Ottawa.pic.twitter.com/xrK4s5JHoX
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BUT WAIT! There’s more…
Ottawa police told protesters to go home and they would not face further rage-filled retaliation:
“As indicated earlier, we will have the opportunity to review all of those files. There are complaint mechanisms for people to enter into if they feel that there is excessive use of force by members of our police service,” Bell said. He added, “This occupation is over. We have advised them that if they peacefully leave, they may go home. That still exists. We also indicated that we would escalate and forcibly remove people from the streets if they did not comply. Some of that is what you’re seeing. So I will stand here today again and say this demonstration is over. Go home. If you don’t go home, we will remove you from the streets.”
He then went on to contradict that statement by vowing to hunt down everyone that attended the protest:
“If you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges. Absolutely. This investigation will go on for months to come. It has many, many different streams both from a federal financial level, from a provincial licensing level, from a criminal code level, from a municipal breach of court order breach of court injunction level, it will be a complicated and time consuming investigation that will go on for a period of time. You have my commitment that that investigation will continue and we will hold people accountable for taking our streets over.”
Erica Carlin is an independent journalist, opinion writer and contributor to several news and opinion sources. She is based in Georgia.