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Posted on 2/12/2022, 8:05:21 PM by conservative98
Canadian police have apparently failed to reopen a bridge linking Ontario and Michigan, 24 hours after a judge ordered the span to be cleared of anti-vaccine mandate truckers who have occupied it for at least five days.
Demonstrators who had spent the night in their vehicles or at nearby hotels rose with the sun Saturday, vowing to continue their fight against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions. They gathered in small groups, discussing their strategies for keeping the bumper-to-bumper demonstration going.
Police moving to end Canadian trucker protest after court order Police arrived just after 8 a.m. to begin moving the protesters off the bridge.
At first, the demonstrators calmly packed up their BBQs and took down their tents, with most leaving without any resistance, according to Sean O’Shea of Canada’s Global News.
But while shoulder-to-shoulder lines made up of dozens of officers, many in military-style gear, slowly squeezed the demonstrators away from the intersection leading to the bridge, a steady flow of people carrying flags and chanting, “Freedom!” began joining the tense but peaceful standoff.
Law enforcement initially outnumbered the demonstrators, according to reporters on the scene, but by midday, the demonstrators had swelled to a few thousand people.
By Saturday evening, the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, was still closed to the public, according to reports from the scene.