{"id":1323930,"date":"2022-02-21T19:52:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T00:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1323930"},"modified":"2022-02-21T19:52:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T00:52:59","slug":"watchdog-says-woman-seriously-injured-by-horse-despite-ottawa-police-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watchdog-says-woman-seriously-injured-by-horse-despite-ottawa-police-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog Says Woman \u2018Seriously Injured\u2019 By Horse Despite Ottawa Police Denial"},"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%2Fwatchdog-says-woman-seriously-injured-by-horse-despite-ottawa-police-denial%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=1323930&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\/Canadian-PM-Trudeau-Invokes-Emergencies-Act-As-Protests-Continue-In-Ottawa-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Ontario\u2019s Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the official watchdog group for the province, said this weekend it is investigating an incident in which a mounted police officer trampled a woman on Friday during police action to break up the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Contrary to statements from the Ottawa police, SIU confirmed the woman suffered a \u201cserious injury\u201d during her \u201cinteraction\u201d with the horse.<\/span><\/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><span>Video of the mounted police riding through protesters and smashing a woman with a walker to the ground went viral on Friday evening, accompanied by incorrect rumors that the woman had been killed.<\/span><\/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\">This is disturbing. Is the woman with the walker trampled by Mounted Unit horses alive? Is she in surgery? Has \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SIUOntario?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SIUOntario<\/a>\u2069 been notified? Do you have any concerns or comment \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OttawaPolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OttawaPolice<\/a>\u2069 \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinTrudeau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JustinTrudeau<\/a>\u2069 \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fordnation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@fordnation<\/a>\u2069 \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimWatsonOttawa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JimWatsonOttawa<\/a>\u2069 \u2013 Why? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X251vZiIaq\">pic.twitter.com\/X251vZiIaq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joe_warmington\/status\/1494823238626869251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The Ottawa Police denounced reports of the woman\u2019s death as \u201cmisinformation\u201d and then claimed no one was injured at all during the encounter:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We hear your concern for people on the ground after the horses dispersed a crowd. Anyone who fell got up and walked away. We&#8217;re unaware of any injuries. A bicycle was thrown at the horse further down the line and caused the horse to trip. The horse was uninjured. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tgfsl6uxT7\">pic.twitter.com\/tgfsl6uxT7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ottawa Police (@OttawaPolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OttawaPolice\/status\/1495026664845328388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>On Saturday, the Ottawa Police <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OttawaPolice\/status\/1495449099113488389\"><span>announced<\/span><\/a><span> SIU was reviewing the case, and pledged to \u201cfully cooperate\u201d with the oversight process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>SIU issued a press release on Saturday in which it confirmed that a 49-year-old woman reported a \u201cserious injury,\u201d but stressed that rumors of her death were false.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>SIU said it was also investigating a report of non-lethal weapons discharged by Vancouver police officers against protesters in Ottawa. At least 21 Vancouver officers were reportedly flown to the national capital to help with the protest situation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario\u2019s Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the official watchdog group for the province, said this weekend it is investigating an incident in which a mounted police officer trampled a woman on &#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-1323930","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\/1323930","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=1323930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323930\/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=1323930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}