{"id":1311172,"date":"2022-02-18T13:32:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T18:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1311172"},"modified":"2022-02-18T18:37:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T23:37:36","slug":"watch-ottawa-police-use-pepper-spray-clubs-horses-against-freedom-convoy-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-ottawa-police-use-pepper-spray-clubs-horses-against-freedom-convoy-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Ottawa Police Use Pepper Spray, Clubs, Horses Against Freedom Convoy Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fwatch-ottawa-police-use-pepper-spray-clubs-horses-against-freedom-convoy-protesters%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=1311172&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\/Ottawa-1-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Canadian law enforcement are using crowd control tactics such as horses, pepper spray, and clubs to arrest and push Freedom Convoy protesters out of downtown Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement launched a campaign to break the protest, which has gone on for weeks after truckers rolled into the city in late January to protest against vaccine mandates. The demonstration has since grown to oppose other COVID-19 restrictions as well.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, enacted in 1989 as a successor to the War Measures Act, on Monday as a \u201clast resort\u201d to deal with the Freedom Convoy protest that has camped outside of Parliament for roughly three weeks. Law enforcement began what could be its final crackdown on the protest on Friday after thousands of officers reportedly circled the protest area.<\/p>\n<p>Police began making arrests and towing vehicles. Several hours into the sweep, police have arrested at least 70 protesters and removed over 20 vehicles, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OttawaPolice\/status\/1494777102608052228\">Ottawa Police Department<\/a>. Later in the afternoon, police broke out heavy crowd control tactics such as horses, clubs, and tear gas to push the protesters back.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Police horses are brought in again against the freedom protestors as law enforcement surges forward.<\/p>\n<p>Footage by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PuffinsPictures?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PuffinsPictures<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CyVCrGICmZ\">pic.twitter.com\/CyVCrGICmZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1494802105147617283?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Police deployed pepper spray against protesters in Ottawa. <\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lincolnmjay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lincolnmjay<\/a> \u2018s livestream to witness history. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G8F2AHFyRq\">https:\/\/t.co\/G8F2AHFyRq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LUQm2CLldc\">pic.twitter.com\/LUQm2CLldc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mocha Bezirgan (@BezirganMocha) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BezirganMocha\/status\/1494800765306609665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Police officer appears to beat protester with the stock of his gun. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xnqR2JI4oI\">pic.twitter.com\/xnqR2JI4oI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Candice Malcolm (@CandiceMalcolm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CandiceMalcolm\/status\/1494800900879228936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Ottawa police claimed that the escalation in tactics was a response to protester tactics. The police claimed protesters were getting violent and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OttawaPolice\/status\/1494718932212662284\">accused<\/a> demonstrators of placing children in between officers and the protest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProtesters are assaulting officers, have attempted to remove officer\u2019s weapons. All means of de-escalation have been used to move forward in our goal of returning Ottawa to it\u2019s normalcy,\u201d the Ottawa Police Department Twitter account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OttawaPolice\/status\/1494797253554450433\">posted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe protesters continued their assaultive behaviour with the police line, to prevent an escalation or further injury, mounted officers were sent in to create critical space between the police line and protesters. This is done to create a safe distance,\u201d the account posted later. \u201cAs this was happening a bicycle was thrown at the feet of one of the horses in an attempt to injure it. One person was arrested for intentionally harming a police service animal.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The protesters continued their assaultive behaviour with the police line, to prevent an escalation or further injury, mounted officers were sent in to create critical space between the police line and protesters. This is done to create a safe distance. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PUIj7w1rwc\">pic.twitter.com\/PUIj7w1rwc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ottawa Police (@OttawaPolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OttawaPolice\/status\/1494806133646794752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Authorities have taken at least three organizers of the Freedom Convoy protest into custody. Daniel Bulford, a former Royal Canadian Mounted Police sniper, is the latest to have been arrested. Bulford <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-freedom-convoy-organizer-daniel-bulford-peacefully-turns-himself-in-arrested-by-police\">turned<\/a> himself into police on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Two other organizers, Chris Barber and Tamara Lich, were arrested by police on Thursday. Ottawa police confirmed the arrests on Friday. Barber is facing several charges of \u201ccounselling to commit the offence of mischief,\u201d \u201ccounselling to commit the offence of disobey court order,\u201d and \u201ccounselling to commit the offence of obstruct police.\u201d Lich has been charged with \u201ccounselling to commit the offence of mischief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Trudeau claimed that the Emergencies Act would be used to break \u201cillegal blockades\u201d set up by the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not using the emergencies act to call in the military. We are not suspending fundamental rights or overriding the charter of rights and freedoms. We are not limiting people\u2019s freedom of speech. We are not limiting freedom of peaceful assembly. We are not preventing people from exercising their right to protest legally. We are reinforcing the principles, values, and institutions that keep all Canadians free,\u201d Trudeau claimed.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire\u2019s first original film, Shut In, has made its cinematic debut, being met with rave reviews. The Daily Wire is building an alternative to the leftist entertainment industry, one gripping movie at a time. Join us in this mission and stream Shut In today by becoming a Daily Wire <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian law enforcement are using crowd control tactics such as horses, pepper spray, and clubs to arrest and push Freedom Convoy protesters out of downtown Ottawa.Law enforcement launched a campaign &#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-1311172","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\/1311172","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=1311172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311172\/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=1311172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}