{"id":1267026,"date":"2022-02-02T21:37:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T02:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1267026"},"modified":"2022-02-02T21:37:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T02:37:58","slug":"exclusive-police-confirm-no-assault-on-officers-at-alberta-border-blockade-despite-premier-kenneys-assertion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-police-confirm-no-assault-on-officers-at-alberta-border-blockade-despite-premier-kenneys-assertion\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Police Confirm No Assault on Officers at Alberta Border Blockade Despite Premier Kenney&#039;s Assertion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-police-confirm-no-assault-on-officers-at-alberta-border-blockade-despite-premier-kenneys-assertion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1267026&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have confirmed to Breitbart News that no officers have been assaulted by protesters at the Alberta border blockade despite the assertion from the province\u2019s Premier, Jason Kenney, that they had.<\/p>\n<p>The blockade \u2013 in which truckers protesting various Canadian coronavirus mandates by blocking the highway used as an international border crossing between Coutts, Alberta, and Sweet Grass, Montana \u2013 is part of what has become known as the \u201cFreedom Convoy,\u201d which also has conducted large demonstrations in Ottawa, the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19679122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/Freedom-Convoy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19679122\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/Freedom-Convoy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of the Freedom Convoy protest Covid-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions on January 29, 2022 in Ottawa, Canada. \u2013 Hundreds of truckers drove their giant rigs into the Canadian capital Ottawa on Saturday as part of a self-titled \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d to protest vaccine mandates required to cross the US border. (Photo by Dave Chan \/ AFP) (Photo by DAVE CHAN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>At a press conference Tuesday, Kenney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/canada\/kenney-calls-for-calm-says-rcmp-officers-assaulted-at-coutts-border-crossing\/ar-AATnDoe\">called<\/a> for \u201ccalm\u201d and said that he had heard reports of \u201cpeople allied with the protesters assaulting RCMP officers, including one instance trying to ram members of the RCMP [with a vehicle].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis kind of conduct is totally unacceptable,\u201d Kenney continued. \u201cAssaulting law enforcement officers who were simply doing their job to maintain public safety and the rule of law is completely unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>As first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/rcmp_confirm_jason_kenney_statement_about_truckers_assault_of_an_officer_is_untrue\">reported<\/a> by Rebel News, the assault claim was untrue, and RCMP Cpl. Curtis Peters, who is on the ground in Coutts, independently confirmed to Breitbart News that no such assault took place, and the incident with the vehicle was an accident that occurred between civilians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were no RCMP officers assaulted,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was an assault that took place between two civilians. One of them was a protester who had been traveling the wrong way on a one-way lane of highway and then got in a collision with the innocent person. \u2026&nbsp;But we haven\u2019t had any assaults of police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Peters, the collision caused a fight to break out between the drivers.<\/p>\n<p>While Kenney said that the protesters have \u201crefused to negotiate in good faith with the RCMP,\u201d Peters told Breitbart News that communications have been \u201cconstant\u201d and \u201congoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peters said the RCMP\u2019s goal is to peaceably \u201cbring this around to opening the roadway,\u201d and added that in the past several hours, the truckers had agreed to open one lane of traffic for the northbound and southbound access. \u201cBut that wasn\u2019t really opening up the border and bringing vehicles down, it just sort of allowed some more people to leave that had originally taken part in the protests and wanted out. That was done on their own accord,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been told that might be a temporary thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In the negotiations, the truckers are maintaining that unless all the mandates are dropped, they are not leaving.<\/p>\n<p>While \u201cnobody\u2019s been seriously hurt,\u201d Peters said, \u201cthere\u2019s still conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One such instance of conflict has to do with Coutts Mayor Jim Willett, who has reported harassment from some supporters of the protest.<\/p>\n<p>According to Peters, Willett \u2014 who <a href=\"https:\/\/www12.statcan.gc.ca\/census-recensement\/2016\/dp-pd\/hlt-fst\/pd-pl\/Table.cfm?Lang=Eng&amp;T=302&amp;SR=1&amp;S=86&amp;O=A&amp;RPP=9999&amp;PR=48\">represents<\/a> a town of 245 persons as of Canada\u2019s last published census \u2014 said he has protesters outside his residence harassing him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fight isn\u2019t with the mayor,\u201d Peters said. \u201cHe has no stake in the game when it comes to mandates. He\u2019s trying to keep this community trucking along.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The RCMP has also been tracking online threats to the mayor, but could not confirm to Breitbart News that those threats were coming from protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Peters says he cannot predict when an end to the blockade, which entered its fifth day Wednesday, will come.<\/p>\n<p><em>Breccan F. Thies<\/em>&nbsp;<em>is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreccanFThies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BreccanFThies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have confirmed to Breitbart News that no officers have been assaulted by protesters at the Alberta border blockade despite the assertion from the province\u2019s Premier, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}