Fri Feb 4, 2022 – 3:03 pm EST
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) – Announcing a three-pronged “surge and contain” strategy, the chief of the Ottawa Police Service, Peter Sloly, outlined an impending crackdown on the Freedom Convoy protestors in the coming hours and days.
The Freedom Convoy protestors are calling for an end to all tyrannical COVID measures in the country.
“There are three parts to this new strategy,” opened Sloly at a press conference on Friday afternoon.
“Number One: We’re deploying a surge of police officers in the downtown and the immediate neighborhoods. There will be approximately 150 additional officers dedicated to only patrolling and addressing unlawful and threatening conduct in the most impacted neighborhoods,” explained the chief, saying that this “surge” will “offer a clear message to the demonstrators [that] ‘the lawlessness must end.’”
Part two, Sloly detailed, will be “a hardening of the perimeter in the demonstration ‘red zone,’ the immediate area of Wellington Street in front of the Parliament buildings,” with police being used to ensure a “further isolation and containing [of] the demonstration” through the use of “concrete barriers” and “heavy equipment barricades” to shut off access to aspects of the city.
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