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Trudeau's trucker crackdown begins: Hundreds of cops backed by armored vehicles and horses start arresting Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa and towing their big rigs as they use powers granted by Emergencies Act
Daily Mail ^

Posted on 02/18/2022 12:04:58 PM PST by algore

A police force of hundreds has descended on the Freedom Convoy truckers in Ottawa, Canada, making arrests and towing away big rigs that have formed a three-week blockade protesting the country's vaccine mandates.

Using Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's extraordinary powers under the Emergencies Act, police have established a 'no-go' zone around the demonstration in Ottawa's core, and on Friday morning a massive force of cops and a fleet of tow truck drivers began clearing out the Convoy's final stronghold.

Citing the 'exceptional circumstances' of the police action, Canada's Parliament suspended Friday's debate on Trudeau's emergency powers

The crackdown came after police arrested key leaders of the protest movement on Thursday night. rumors of a similar protest convoy headed to the US capital.

In Ottawa, cops carrying automatic weapons and wearing tactical unit uniforms converged on a line of trucks, campers and other vehicles parked on Ottawa's snow-covered streets. Police brought a dozen horses to confront protesters, backed by an armored vehicle.

Tow truck operators wore neon-green ski masks with their companies' decals taped over on their trucks to conceal their identities from protesters. They arrived under police escort and set to work removing the big rigs, campers and other vehicles parked bumper to bumper in the Parliament Hill blockade.

As the massed ranks of heavily armed cops in tactical gear moved forward, protestor Dallon, from Alberta said: 'this is a sledgehammer to kill a fly.'

'I’m not afraid to get arrested. In fact I’m expecting it.

Around 100 cops in green military-style riot gear with black helmets and vizors came from the opposite direction, wearing gas masks and brandishing tear gas guns effectively trapping the protesters between the Chateau Laurier and the Westin Hotel.

The riot cops are from Quebec's provincial police force, which has a reputation for tough tactics.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Canada; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: backtheblue; braking; canada; canadatyranny; convoy; fascism; fascistcanada; fascnadians; freedomconvoy; jawohlmeintrudeau; lawandorder; mandate; mandates; ohvichynada; ottawa; policestate; politicalprisoners; protest; thinblueline; truckers; trudeau; vaccinemandates; vichycanada
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1 posted on 02/18/2022 12:04:58 PM PST by algore
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Tow truck operators wore neon-green ski masks with their companies’ decals taped over on their trucks to conceal their identities from protesters. They arrived under police escort and set to work removing the big rigs, campers and other vehicles parked bumper to bumper in the Parliament Hill blockade.

The word is “collaborator”.


2 posted on 02/18/2022 12:06:34 PM PST by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer.)
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To: algore

Note that the Daily Mail is refusing to allow comments on the article.


3 posted on 02/18/2022 12:07:23 PM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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4 posted on 02/18/2022 12:07:52 PM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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Back the Blue as long as they back you. Seems to me that some Ottowa police have chosen which side they are on. Canadian patriots should act accordingly; whatever that is.


5 posted on 02/18/2022 12:08:19 PM PST by Turbo Pig ('To close with and destroy the enemy")
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“The riot cops are from Quebec’s provincial police force”

Ah. Just like Tianamen Square. Brought in troops from the Western provinces for that one. Beijing cops thought too friendly.


6 posted on 02/18/2022 12:09:49 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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Do the cops even CONSIDER for one single minute that six months from now THEY could be on the receiving end of this persecution?

Do they recall when nurses were being called heroes in 2020 when playing the government’s game — and a year later were being fired and otherwise persecuted as time progressed?

They’re playing a dangerous game. Sometimes you’re the bug; sometimes you’re the windshield.


7 posted on 02/18/2022 12:10:10 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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Scum. Communist scum.


8 posted on 02/18/2022 12:10:43 PM PST by Hattie
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Keep in mind that we’re being told they’re riot cops from Quebec.

We don’t for a fact know who the hell they are.


9 posted on 02/18/2022 12:11:19 PM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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To: algore

Horses at a protest like this seems really stupid.


10 posted on 02/18/2022 12:11:36 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: algore

This is crazy. I just checked Canada’s COVID stats, and it’s almost over there, as it is here.

This is a power grab. There’s no other reason.


11 posted on 02/18/2022 12:11:55 PM PST by keats5
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The State is using brute force to stop the exercise of free speech by peaceful protestors.


12 posted on 02/18/2022 12:12:02 PM PST by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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CASTRUDEAU MAY GET 10X KARMA OVER THIS


13 posted on 02/18/2022 12:13:05 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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14 posted on 02/18/2022 12:13:19 PM PST by Paul46360 (What??ME worry?)
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To: Flick Lives

“-—decals taped over-—” yeah that oughta do it? paint jobs and license plates should identify the quislings. Rule number one for the citydicks, mounties, and towers: be polite. You will be remembered.


15 posted on 02/18/2022 12:13:31 PM PST by OldWarBaby
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EXACTLY..this what scares me about cops here..will they do the same????


16 posted on 02/18/2022 12:13:54 PM PST by Paul46360 (What??ME worry?)
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To: Flick Lives

The tow truck companies that are complicit in this attack on peaceful protestors should be boycotted.


17 posted on 02/18/2022 12:14:05 PM PST by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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Hope the citizens of Ottawa don’t mind starving in the absence of any deliveries.


18 posted on 02/18/2022 12:14:24 PM PST by G Larry (Tolerance will rise until intelligent people are banned from thinking to avoid offending imbeciles)
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To: MayflowerMadam

they just want their paychecks and don’t think beyond that.


19 posted on 02/18/2022 12:14:51 PM PST by NicoDon
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To: algore

Dictator Trudeau brought in troops from Quebec like the ChiComs did with using rural troops to shoot protesters in Beijing.


20 posted on 02/18/2022 12:15:07 PM PST by WMarshal ("No war for communism"I doubt they're smart enough to make the connection)
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