Ontario police stop by a woman's house for some 'proactive relationship building' after seeing her post to a pro-convoy Facebook group

Here’s something interesting. The police officer from the Ontario Provincial Police was nothing but courteous and just wanted to drop off some information about peaceful protesting. The police officer did this at a woman’s home after seeing her active in a pro-Freedom Convoy Facebook group. Apparently, the police have something called Provincial Liaison Teams who try to resolve conflicts at major events, and this was just a PLT member using “proactive relationship-building and communication to facilitate safe and lawful environments for everyone wanting to exercise the rights to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly.”

Statement from the OPP regarding the video of an officer checking in on a Peterborough County woman to provide "some information about peaceful protest" after seeing her in a convoy-related Facebook group. pic.twitter.com/FcAOsY2zQL

— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) February 12, 2022

You can watch the video of the interaction here. pic.twitter.com/4YvEos2ghC

— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) February 12, 2022

The officer was professional and courteous and nothing she told the woman was incorrect. My concern with this doesn't lie in the content of the conversation, but its existence.

— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) February 12, 2022

Agreed. The police are just being “proactive”? Is there a violent protest we don’t know about?

When the police knock on your door to tell you about a protest they know you're going to be at because they were monitoring Facebook, what they're really doing is saying "We know who you are and we're watching you."

— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) February 12, 2022

There's a difference between protest organizers liaising with police (as is common with any events) and police preemptively canvassing people because they were reading their Facebook posts and want to cloak this surveillance with seemingly benign "information."

— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) February 12, 2022

Intimidation, but softened b/c of a petite officer with a pony tail.

"Hi, I'm, like, Becky. I'm, like, with the OPP. Did you, like, umm, 'like' some things on Facebook? Well, you know, umm, like, here's some info so that you don't, umm, like, do any more wrongthink. Bye-bye!"

— John Szucs (@szucs_john) February 12, 2022

Notice how they almost ALWAYS send in the female officers? If there’s a male officer as “backup” he usually hangs back, looking slightly sheepish.

— JennyWeepsForTheCulture (@MommaJen6974) February 12, 2022

Which leads to the question, how did they know who said what on what platform? If one of the neighbors didn't snitch, then the OPP, and most likely other police agencies, have complete access to and are spying on residents of this country. #OverReach

— Roberto Fontana (@rfontana881) February 12, 2022

https://twitter.com/smooresfit/status/1492528885761724424

I don’t think it had the effect of ‘building a relationship’

— Josee Gunville (@JoseeGunville) February 12, 2022

Pure INTIMIDATION

— Bonnie Turner (@BonnieT06556986) February 12, 2022

https://twitter.com/WISE_Approach/status/1492533292410851329

100% would be ok if they were just handing out pamphlets to ALL residents in nearby towns of expected protests but targeting certain persons in a social media group is trying to intimidate even if she was professional.

— True North, Strong and Free (@NorthernMomFree) February 12, 2022

Under the guise of "safety"these public servants are violating rights, and spying on private Canadian citizens without justification. It's seems all that is required is to utter the phrase "it's for safety" and it negates all legal requirements? This abuse of power needs to end.

— #TrudeauMustGo Ausra Borean – 🇨🇦 (@AusraBorean) February 12, 2022

Yup, anything goes now "for the greater good", including spying and blatant intimidation.
Our compliance brought us to this. It has to stop.

— UnacceptableSilverFox 🍁 (@Cdn_Eliana) February 12, 2022

They make it sound so benign when it’s anything but.

— 🎯#TrudeauMustGo RuLaLa 🇨🇦 (@DaPearl1978) February 12, 2022

Add "proactive contact" to the lexicon of Newspeak.

— WhistlingWoman (@intheWildHills) February 12, 2022

Pure intimidation. Plain and simple.

— Oscar the cat (@ScottWGerber) February 12, 2022

Maybe they need a budget cut if they have surplus resources for this.

— Alex (@kwralex) February 12, 2022

https://twitter.com/trocbe/status/1492574906395078663

So they essentially admit to spying on public platforms ie social media.

— 🇨🇦 shane 🇨🇦 (@scorpio3474) February 12, 2022

How did they get her address?

— 🇨🇦Canadian El Jefe🇨🇦 (@CanadianElJefe) February 12, 2022

Yeah right. Could have sent a message. Showing up at your door for saying something on the Internet is new level overreach however you spin it.

— John Adams (@john_adams_can) February 12, 2022

Nothing says proactive "relationship building" to facilitate the safe expression of free speech and assembly, by having a cop show up at your door, and suggesting , you might want to rethink your social media posts.

— George Qua (@classicaviator2) February 12, 2022

It is not the job of the police to facilitate our acces to our rights and freedoms. It is our job as citizens to take control of our rights. The minute the police start to tell you how you are allowed to use those rights you no longer have them

— John Taylor (@JohnTaylor101C) February 12, 2022

People see through this. pic.twitter.com/eVGwRwgpuT

— Satanas… (@DSmykal) February 12, 2022

"Just wanted to drop off this brochure that says doing illegal shit is illegal have a nice day"
If they didn't post anything against the law, why the hell are we paying for cops to moderate Facebook likes?

— Unacceptable Fringe Minority Tin Foil Hat Yob (@ErwynJr1985) February 12, 2022

Sure didn’t stop the tearing down of statues, burning of churches, vandalized business, looting, assaulting police. But Trudeau likes to work with them, just like he said 3 weeks ago about BLM and where BLM goes antifa follows.

— biggy12 (@Biggy12Rbig1) February 12, 2022

https://twitter.com/adrupsytov/status/1492525871873335303

This reminds us of CNN ambushing an elderly woman in her driveway because she shared a Facebook post that was supposedly Russian disinformation.

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