{"id":1502720,"date":"2022-06-03T15:05:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T19:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502720"},"modified":"2022-06-03T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T19:06:08","slug":"fact-check-did-the-ottawa-police-chief-say-that-every-single-canadian-who-supported-truckers-will-be-hunted-down-and-ruined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-the-ottawa-police-chief-say-that-every-single-canadian-who-supported-truckers-will-be-hunted-down-and-ruined\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did The Ottawa Police Chief Say That \u2018Every Single Canadian Who Supported Truckers Will Be Hunted Down And Ruined\u2019?"},"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\">42<\/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%2Ffact-check-did-the-ottawa-police-chief-say-that-every-single-canadian-who-supported-truckers-will-be-hunted-down-and-ruined%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=1502720&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><span>A post <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheBlueVoiceSupport\/posts\/pfbid02gHBp5ocjwHMMPafz5uFSjj7aF3D5swKwGFJMdnvHjxUwZAkCa9yFa3ckfTJQtyYtl\"><span>shared on Facebook<\/span><\/a><span> claims <\/span><span>interim Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell <\/span><span>said that \u201cEvery single Canadian who supported truckers will be hunted down and ruined.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence Bell made this statement. A representative for the Ottawa Police Department denied the claim.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A large group of Canadian truckers arrived in Ottawa earlier this year where they staged a weeks-long demonstration against pandemic-related restrictions, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/timeline-of-convoy-protest-in-ottawa-1.6351432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBC<\/a>. A recent Facebook post claims that Bell expressed his intent to \u201chunt down and ruin\u201d all Canadians who supported the demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOttawa Police Chief: \u2018Every Single Canadian Who Supported Truckers Will Be Hunted Down and Ruined,&#8217;\u201d reads the Facebook post. \u201cChief, it sounds like you are in the wrong line of work. To hear a public servant (especially a Chief) speak like this, truly disgusts me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, no evidence that Bell made such a statement. No such quote appears on the Ottawa Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ottawapolice.ca\/en\/index.aspx#?cludoquery=Hunted%20Down%20and%20Ruined&#038;cludopage=1&#038;cludorefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ottawapolice.ca%2Fen%2Findex.aspx&#038;cludorefpt=Ottawa%20Police%20Service&#038;cludoinputtype=standard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>. There are likewise no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Every+Single+Canadian+Who+Supported+Truckers+Will+Be+Hunted+Down+and+Ruined&#038;rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS820US820&#038;oq=Every+Single+Canadian+Who+Supported+Truckers+Will+Be+Hunted+Down+and+Ruined&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i61.234j0j15&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credible news reports<\/a> that attribute such a quote to the police chief.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe quote is false,\u201d a representative for the Ottawa Police Department confirmed in an email to Check Your Fact. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/02\/23\/fact-check-ottawa-police-violently-restrain-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Video Show Ottawa Police Violently Restraining A Man?)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While there is no evidence Bell made the statement attributed to him in the post, he did make a similar comment during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tJe9gbDiWvY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press conference<\/a> in February about the demonstration.\u00a0<span>\u201cIf you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges, absolutely,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/disclosetv\/status\/1495155791623606284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Bell. \u201cThis investigation will go on for months to come.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The fabricated post appears to stem from a 2022 NewsPunch <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/newspunch.com\/ottawa-police-chief-every-single-canadian-who-supported-truckers-will-be-hunted-down-and-ruined\/\"><span>article<\/span><\/a><span>. <a href=\"https:\/\/newspunch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NewsPunch<\/a> was formerly known as YourNewsWire until the website changed its domain name in an attempt to elude Facebook\u2019s fact-checking system, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/fact-checking\/2019\/want-to-get-away-with-posting-fake-news-on-facebook-just-change-your-website-domain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poynter<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims interim Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell said that \u201cEvery single Canadian who supported truckers will be hunted down and ruined.\u201dVerdict: False\u00a0There is no evidence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502720","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\/1502720","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\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502720\/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=1502720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}