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Originally Posted by Marshsparrow
Remember in 2020 when Nicholas and Laurier was blocked - did the Ottawa Police Service let them stay - NO, on day 2 they moved in and arrested 12 of them... how many arrests for the shitshow that continues downtown?
If we magically replaced truckers with blacks, indigenous or muslims - situation would have been cleared by now - and not nicely.
Yesterday we saw the mayor, Diane Deans and the police chief self-congratulate themselves, pats on the back all around, high fives and the message to residents was stop tweeting, emailing, calling and sit tight.
This is a complete failure of leadership.
And I can't get an answer - but was there a protest permit issued? If not, why all the accomodations?
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The simple answer no one is talking about is that these people are armed with 100% legal but very deadly and hard-to-stop weapons.
It only takes one degen to get fired up on Zello and plow his company's semi through barricades or cops arresting someone. Even a very remote chance of that happening, you want to avoid.
Obviously they should be ticketing those idiots blowing horns since yesterday. But arresting them would've been wrong.