{"id":1299765,"date":"2022-02-15T14:08:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1299765"},"modified":"2022-02-15T14:08:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T19:08:17","slug":"reports-ottawa-police-chief-resigns-after-weeks-of-freedom-convoy-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reports-ottawa-police-chief-resigns-after-weeks-of-freedom-convoy-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Ottawa Police Chief Resigns After Weeks of Freedom Convoy Protests"},"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\">22<\/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%2Freports-ottawa-police-chief-resigns-after-weeks-of-freedom-convoy-protests%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=1299765&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238391137-e1644948212703-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Ottawa police chief&nbsp;Peter Sloly resigned from his position Tuesday, multiple reports confirmed, after weeks of continued protests against Wuhan coronavirus restrictions by Freedom Convoy truckers, a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked emergency powers.<\/p>\n<p>Sloly, criticised by many opposed to the Freedom Convoy protests over his handling of the situation in downtown Ottawa, resigned Tuesday after alleged conflicts with colleagues in the Ottawa Police Service as well as conflicts with members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP).<\/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<p>Sources, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/sloly-ottawa-resigns-behaviour-leadership-1.6352295\">report<\/a> from Canadian broadcaster CBC, indicated that Sloly had a short temper and berated senior police officials. He allegedly raised his voice and yelled at the members of the Ottawa Police Service leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now the Ottawa Police Service is paralyzed,\u201d a source told the broadcaster and added, \u201cThey are paralyzed at the front line. They\u2019ve been waiting for directions from the senior leadership team and are frustrated with how they\u2019re being viewed by the public because of the spectacular failure of their leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others have accused Sloly of not having concrete plans to end the three-week protests, which have seen truckers and supporters encamp in front of the Canadian parliament building and the immediate area.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Justin Trudeau Grabs Powers Under Never-Before Used Emergencies Act to Stomp Out Trucker Protests<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3NyTY1kJwj\">https:\/\/t.co\/3NyTY1kJwj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1493510400163336195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf someone paid me $346M a year and I point-blank refused to do my job, I should get fired. The Ottawa police is employed and rewarded with budget increases every year. We have this all backwards. Defund the police,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hidrees\/status\/1488974563950141446?s=20&amp;t=Su8lZpgVrmzXpDi1GA-uqA\">wrote<\/a> Huda Idrees, CEO of the Toronto company Dot Health in the early days of the protests.<\/p>\n<p>Hired as Ottawa Police Chief in 2019, Sloly has spoken out at length on perceived issues of&nbsp;<a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/sloly-ottawa-police-abdirahman-abdi-1.5784059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/sloly-ottawa-police-abdirahman-abdi-1.5784059\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">systematic racism<\/a>&nbsp;within the police force and went as far as&nbsp;<a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/racist-meme-ottawa-police-charge-1.5593493\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/racist-meme-ottawa-police-charge-1.5593493\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">bringing charges<\/a>&nbsp;against one of his own police officers over an alleged \u201cracist meme\u201d that had been shared among members of the Ottawa police service in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Sloly had previously spoken out about the possibility of the military being asked to aid police to remove the trucks and other items placed downtown by the protestors and claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2022\/02\/01\/canada-police-all-options-on-the-table-to-end-peaceful-trucker-protests\/\">all options<\/a> were on the table. However, the military<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/03\/ottawa-police-threatens-to-call-in-military-to-stop-trucker-protest\/\"> rebuked Sloly<\/a>, claiming that it had no intention of getting involved in a law enforcement capacity in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wayne, a Freedom Convoy supporter in Ottawa, said nobody should &#8220;suffer from isolation&#8221; or &#8220;be stigmatized&#8221; for personal medical decisions. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dwz5v4hMvr\">https:\/\/t.co\/Dwz5v4hMvr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1493637019427381248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Canadian Armed Forces are not involved in law enforcement in this situation, and there are no plans for such CAF involvement,\u201d a spokesman for the Canadian Defence Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau further added that the government had<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/04\/canada-trudeau-vetoes-police-hint-of-military-force-against-peaceful-mandate-protesters\/\"> no plans<\/a> to deploy the military on the streets of the Canadian capital, a statement he reiterated on Monday after formally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/14\/justin-trudeau-grabs-powers-under-never-before-used-emergencies-act-to-stomp-out-trucker-protests\/\">invoking the Emergencies Act<\/a> for the first time in Canadian history.<\/p>\n<p>While Trudeau has claimed the emergencies Act will be&nbsp;time-limited and geographically narrow, promising to uphold rights set out in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland stated that the government would be looking at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/14\/trudeau-threatens-freeze-assets-suspend-insurance-freedom-convoy-truckers\/\">freezing bank accounts and assets<\/a> of supporters of the Freedom Convoy as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/14\/trudeau-targets-crowdfunding-platforms-cryptocurrencies-under-terrorist-financing-rules\/\">regulating crowdfunding platforms<\/a> and cryptocurrency under terrorist financing rules.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Far-Left Canadian PM Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act just days after the Biden administration urged him to use &#8220;federal powers.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vyBs5RcK73\">https:\/\/t.co\/vyBs5RcK73<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1493588400527618050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at&nbsp;<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span>or email at&nbsp;ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa police chief\u00a0Peter Sloly resigned from his position Tuesday, multiple reports confirmed, after weeks of continued protests against Wuhan coronavirus restrictions by Freedom Convoy truckers, a day after Prime Minister &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1299765","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\/1299765","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299765\/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=1299765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}