Posted on 02/12/2022 6:05:21 PM PST 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.
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HOLD THE LINE!
They are hold the winning hold the line.
Looks like that judge is going to get right on over there himself and start throwing those Truckers right off that bridge!
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🤞 Crossed Fingers and praying 🙏
It’s a nationwide movement.
Not a fringe minority, the vast majority.
The Son of a Castro
Interesting....
FWIW , and nobody seems to mention it, the Ambassador Bridge is privately owned, so it would seem to me that the owners could do whatever they wanted. They could hire private security to control their property. I’m going to assume that the approaches are part of the bridge as well. The public could prevent entry to those approaches and plug up the streets on either side.
I’m not sure Castreau has the balls to go full “Tanks in Prague” on them, or if he’s going to try and mealy mouth it in hopes that they fold.
The obvious is that Castreau is done as Prime Minister, and the truckers are going to force the issue on the mandates until he has capitulated and is gone.
They have a lane open, what more do they want?
At least on the Detroit side the approaches are all
Public thoroughfares
I wonder what they make per day from Tolls?
I hope the truckers double their numbers Sunday night into Monday.
Nothing like the Superbowl to take attention away from any crackdown.
Funniest headline I saw today was from the Bee: "Socialists condemn workers of the world for uniting"
Biden will provide air support as Canada takes out “these people”. They are probably all unvaccinated anyway.
Well theres more than 300 of them also 600 ...
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