Wed Feb 23, 2022 – 6:54 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Ottawa police have vowed to seek to identify all those involved in the city’s Freedom Convoy protest this past weekend and to punish them criminally.
“If you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges,” interim Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell said during a Saturday press conference in response to a journalist’s question about “intelligence gathering” and possible “repercussions” for protesters.
Bell said the investigation will be “complicated” and “will go on for months to come.” He explained it will be pursued “from a federal financial level, from a provincial licensing level, from a criminal code level, from a municipal breach of court order, breach of court injunction level.”
Ottawa Police’s Twitter account reiterated Bell’s exact statement on Sunday about pursuing protesters to press charges. The declaration was met with a trickle of supporting comments and a deluge of criticism.
“These words are more like something from the Soviet Union or Communist China than anything resembling a free Western nation,” one Twitter user said in one of the most popular comments, with 8,019
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