Wed Feb 23, 2022 – 11:38 am EST
(American Thinker) – The Ottawa Police Department (OPD) recently received many phone calls protesting its abhorrent abuse of peaceful protesters surrounding the Freedom Convoy. The department apparently did not like the calls.
Ergo, it took to Twitter to tweet: “We know the events in #Ottawa are upsetting. Still, we’re asking people to stop calling critical emergency and operational phone lines to express displeasure about the police action to remove an unlawful assembly downtown.”
A subsequent tweet stated: “We track calls and will charge anyone deliberately interfering with the phone lines.”
We know the events in #Ottawa are upsetting. Still, we’re asking people to stop calling critical emergency and operational phone lines to express displeasure about the police action to remove an unlawful assembly downtown.
— Ottawa Police (@OttawaPolice) February 19, 2022
Lives can depend on 911 calls getting through. It is a crime to unnecessarily call 911 or our non-emergency number (613-236-1222). We track calls and will charge anyone deliberately interfering with the phone lines.
— Ottawa Police (@OttawaPolice) February 19, 2022
Got it. Don’t call us just because you witness an unresisting protester being trampled, kicked, clubbed, kneed, tasered, or teargassed. We need to keep
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