As Twitchy just reported, a Rebel News reporter just posted video of the police assaulting her on the front lines of the Freedom Convoy protest. And earlier, we covered Keith Olbermann expressing his desire to see more elderly women on mobility scooters be trampled by police on horseback.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had said earlier he’d be taking action against the Freedom Convoy protests to ensure Canadians’ safety, and Ottawa Police tweeted a message early Saturday essentially saying, “You made us do this” and making it clear they’d be using helmets and batons for their own safety, as protesters had been “assaultive and aggressive with officers and the horses.” We told you to leave, they said.
PROTESTORS: We told you to leave. We gave you time to leave. We were slow and methodical, yet you were assaultive and aggressive with officers and the horses. Based on your behaviour, we are responding by including helmets and batons for our safety. pic.twitter.com/drxfhG9clP
— Ottawa Police (@OttawaPolice) February 19, 2022
The protesters aggressively hit your batons with their faces
— Razor (@hale_razor) February 19, 2022
HONK.
— Brittany Hughes (@RealBrittHughes) February 19, 2022
I was patient. I told you three times to get me my beer. You made made me hit you.
— Neil Donnelly (@MisterZloot) February 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/Thekid77780836/status/1495070219563327493
Canada becomes a police state. For all those who welcome this, you must hope that you always will able to be obedient to your government.
— Inge (@IngeJip) February 19, 2022
Same reason they threatened to arrest media, easier to push their narrative. Their facts are what matter. Forget all the videos of abuse from yesterday, it's the protestors who are wrong.
— Jackal (@RagingJackal) February 19, 2022
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"Assaultive and aggressive" pic.twitter.com/9p0ZdEdZYR
— Jackal (@RagingJackal) February 19, 2022
I feel something was lost in the German to English translation of this tweet
— Allan (@AllanRicharz) February 19, 2022
We should all feel shame in how our government handled this. And I understand people getting frustrated, but so was the convoy. All of them have lives, too. If a conversation had taken place, they would have been gone weeks ago.
— Joanne (@Joanne25658435) February 19, 2022
Just let them make their own medical decisions. It is an easy policy with no monetary cost or even a planning aspect.
— Haunted Backlog (@Haunted_Backlog) February 19, 2022
You do know we all can see the cell phone footage right? You’re the bad guys here.
— Priscilla Rodewald (@pkrodewald) February 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShrinkGov/status/1495049823631912963
You trampled people with horses.
— Jacob Airey (@realJacobAirey) February 19, 2022
I guess trampling people with horses was the fault of peaceful protesters.
Which officers will be charged with assault and civil rights violations?
— Jason Roberge (@JasonRobergeVA) February 19, 2022
I don’t think throwing bikes at horses is “peaceful assembly”
— John Barron Miller 🌻 (@JohnBarronMill3) February 19, 2022
Where’s the bike?
— FunkyPox (@corrcomm) February 19, 2022
It was the Indigenous woman's mobility scooter, not a bike. Maybe turn off your TV and tune into Independant Media. They show you facts from the front line, literally. There's half a dozen angles of the horse incident
— P G (@trish_rose_) February 19, 2022
You should know that was the woman’s walker. It was not a bicycle. She is a Mohawk elder who was peacefully protesting and was trampled.
— Rebecca Lofsnes (@glossrock) February 19, 2022
Care to show proof? Because none of the footage shows this
— J.Del Skeleton Pimp (@Blindspoted) February 19, 2022
— KD Sweaty. only here for Stock info (@KDSweaty) February 19, 2022
“Throwing bikes at horses.”
Honestly, I don’t think helmets will protect you from chants of “We love you.” The livestreams don’t support your story.
— Matthew Fenn (@PrMatteus) February 19, 2022
@OttawaPolice Thanks for the history lesson but @RebelNewsOnline and #FreedomConvoy had cameras rolling and the winners will write the history. You lose.
— BYOBB (@BYOBB5) February 19, 2022
My God, you liars. You trampled a woman yesterday, you assaulted people…YOU KNOW WE CAN SEE YOU, RIGHT?
You absolute THUGS.
— FunkyPox (@corrcomm) February 19, 2022
“We asked you to leave so we are going to physically assault you and beat you cause it’s just our job”
— E (@ElijahSchaffer) February 19, 2022
“We told you to take down the bounce houses. We told you to stop dancing. We told you to turn down the music. You didn’t so we made up stories about you and now we’re bringing batons and helmets, removing our name badges because we’re sissy obedient cowards to the Trudeau regime”
— Five Times August (@FiveTimesAugust) February 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/westerspace/status/1495099611748261889
"remember it's for your health.." pic.twitter.com/Fx8TN9GzLx
— 𝕕𝕣𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕘 (@dro_og) February 19, 2022
Where are your videos of these assaults?
— Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BillboardChris) February 19, 2022
They never existed, otherwise they would certainly have shown them.
— T.Tondering 🔬 (@vondering) February 19, 2022
I don't understand I have watched half a dozen live feeds and I can find a single incident of a protestor being violent.
— Wesley Mann (@WES_MANNCO) February 19, 2022
Do you not know we can see videos??? You are the only ones who have been aggressive. You are supposed to be police to protect us.
— 🇨🇦⚡️PLATE LICKING PLEB (@PlateLicker_21m) February 19, 2022
Proof please? We need proof. Accountability at all levels is crucial. Proof is a fair request. And not EDITED footage either. Real concrete proof please?
— Living by Faith (@shannanzin) February 19, 2022
Thought you were moving trucks out
— Raven (@Raven60311142) February 19, 2022
Wait… WHO was assaultive and aggressive?pic.twitter.com/Vv89CI4Jfa
— Arthur (@Candid_Apples) February 19, 2022
Translation: based on your behaviour of non-violent non-submission to our unlawful aggression, we will be further increasing the violence we alone introduced into what was otherwise a peaceful situation.
— Luminous (@ShogunWasRobbed) February 19, 2022
You’d think the police would have a ton of footage by now of them being assaulted by protesters. “We were slow and methodical” until you made us club you.
Related:
Here’s video footage from the front lines of the Freedom Convoy protests showing police getting serious https://t.co/sohf9D4zRC
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 19, 2022
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