{"id":1310621,"date":"2022-02-18T15:37:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T20:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1310621"},"modified":"2022-02-18T15:37:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T20:37:58","slug":"freedom-convoy-leader-accuses-police-of-blocking-ottawa-protesters-from-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/freedom-convoy-leader-accuses-police-of-blocking-ottawa-protesters-from-leaving\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Convoy Leader Accuses Police of Blocking Ottawa Protesters from Leaving"},"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%2Ffreedom-convoy-leader-accuses-police-of-blocking-ottawa-protesters-from-leaving%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=1310621&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-1238594930-e1645213687799-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A leading organiser of the Freedom Convoy protestors in Ottawa claimed on Friday that police are surrounding protestors and conducting mass arrests, while not allowing people to leave the area peacefully.<\/p>\n<p>Organiser B.J. Dichter claimed on Twitter on Friday afternoon that police forces in Ottawa were escalating the situation on the ground and not allowing protestors to peacefully leave the area.<\/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>\u201cOttawa police are now boxing in \u2018protestors\u2019 and executing mass arrests. Once again escalating the situation and not allowing people to leave in peace. Why are you always escalating?\u201d Dichter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BJdichter\/status\/1494733499785490437?s=20&amp;t=n_8Z6BoHgZlxy_fDQkvGYw\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Police are starting to make arrests, many protesters who have formed a line in front of police remain <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ctvottawa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ctvottawa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eWhrTZzYo1\">pic.twitter.com\/eWhrTZzYo1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Claudia Cautillo (@ClaudiaCTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClaudiaCTV\/status\/1494715126682898433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Breitbart News attempted to contact the Ottawa police but was unable to reach a representative to confirm or deny Dichter\u2019s allegations or reports of mass arrests. The Ottawa police hotline advised those concerned to check the police department\u2019s Twitter account.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Dichter had previously<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BJdichter\/status\/1494717870407888896?s=20&amp;t=n_8Z6BoHgZlxy_fDQkvGYw\"> called on protestors to leave<\/a> Ottawa earlier in the day, claiming that one of the Freedom Convoy drivers had been dragged from his vehicle at gunpoint by police.<\/p>\n<p>Several videos posted on Twitter have shown police <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvanLSolomon\/status\/1494743699095490568?s=20&amp;t=n_8Z6BoHgZlxy_fDQkvGYw\">breaking into vehicles<\/a>&nbsp;and in some cases, police have been spotted at the protest&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMarieOakes\/status\/1494725517525893123?s=20&amp;t=n_8Z6BoHgZlxy_fDQkvGYw\">armed with rifles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ottawa Police,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OttawaPolice\/status\/1494753928449302530?s=20&amp;t=n_8Z6BoHgZlxy_fDQkvGYw\">21 people have been arrested<\/a> as of 2:21 pm eastern standard time and 21 vehicles have been towed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">People are leaving their trucks and cars as cops coming up with some big guns at Rideau and Sussex. Cops go and search the cars after <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cdnpolj?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cdnpolj<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ottnews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ottnews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pZc5bQGUap\">pic.twitter.com\/pZc5bQGUap<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mackenzie Gray (@Gray_Mackenzie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gray_Mackenzie\/status\/1494723391764508676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The arrests come just hours after two of the main organisers of the Freedom Convoy, Tammy Lich and Chris Barber, were arrested on Thursday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Lich, 49-years-old from Medicine Hat, Alberta, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ottawapolice.ca\/Modules\/News\/index.aspx?newsId=d49945ff-146f-4355-adbb-c2a975e9eb1b\">charged<\/a> Friday with counselling to commit the offence of mischief, while Barber, 46 from Swift Current, Saskatchewan, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ottawapolice.ca\/Modules\/News\/index.aspx?newsId=77f4cfcc-25a5-42f8-9edb-cc4492c361fa\">charged<\/a> with counselling to commit the offence of mischief, counselling to commit the offence of disobeying a court order and counselling to commit the offence of obstructing police.<\/p>\n<p>Lich had commented prior to her arrest that she was resigned at the fact that she would be arrested and noted that her bank account had been frozen.<\/p>\n<p>Following the <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\/\">invocation of the Emergencies Act<\/a> for the first time in Canadian history by leftist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the government announced it would be freezing the bank accounts of people linked to the protests.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s Justice Minister, David Lametti, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/16\/canadas-justice-minister-trump-supporters-oughta-be-worried-bank-accounts-will-be-frozen\/\">commented<\/a> on the topic of people worried their bank accounts may be frozen by the government saying, \u201cWell, I think if you are a member of a pro-Trump movement who\u2019s donating hundreds of thousands of dollars and millions of dollars to this kind of thing, they oughta be worried.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Canada&#8217;s Justice Minister David Lametti has told Trump supporters who donated to the &#8220;Freedom Convoy&#8221; to be worried about accounts frozen.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OLTAfZBv8G\">https:\/\/t.co\/OLTAfZBv8G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1494163104359456769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 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>A leading organiser of the Freedom Convoy protestors in Ottawa claimed on Friday that police are surrounding protestors and conducting mass arrests, while not allowing people to leave the area &#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-1310621","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\/1310621","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=1310621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310621\/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=1310621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}