Police in Canada say they have made 70 arrests and progress in clearing out truckers who have paralyzed Ottawa for three weeks in a protest against the country’s COVID-19 restrictions
The crackdown on the self-styled Freedom Convoy began in the morning, when hundreds of police, some in riot gear and some carrying automatic weapons, descended into the protest zoneand began leading demonstrators away in handcuffs through the snowy streets as holdout truckers blared their horns.
But a steady procession of trucks began leaving Parliament Hill in the afternoon as lines of officers pushed through the streets.Hours into the show of force, authorities said 21 people had been arrested and roughly two dozen vehicles had been towed, including all of those blocking one of city's major streets.
Authorities had hesitated to move against the protests, in part because of the fear of violence. The demonstrations have drawn right-wing extremists and veterans, some of them armed. The emergency act also enabled law enforcement authorities to compel tow truck companies to assist. Ottawa police said earlier that they couldn’t find tow truck drivers willing to help because they either sympathized with the movement or feared retaliation.
Dan Holland, a protester from London Ontario, packed up his car, which was parked amid the trucks, as police closed in. “I don’t want to get beat up by this police,” he said. The Freedom Convoy demonstrations around the country initially focused on Canada’s vaccine requirement for truckers entering the country but soon morphed into a broad attack on COVID-19 precautions and Trudeau’s government.
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