Tue Sep 19, 2023 – 5:05 pm EDT
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) –– During the ninth day of the trial of Freedom Convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, a Quebec police captain deployed to the “front line” of the protest admitted that he was able to break for lunch during the crackdown despite the fact that his orders to him came in “military-style.”
Captain Etienne Martel with Surete du Quebec, the province’s provincial police force, led a squad of some 45 officers who were brought in to assist the Ottawa Police around February 18, 2022, for the last three days of the protest. Their job was to disperse the Freedom Convoy protesters and stop them from making any more advancements towards Parliament.
During Martel’s testimony, while being questioned by the Crown, he admitted that orders for him to direct his “green squad,” as they were known, came from a “command center,” and were done in a “military-style” format. His orders were to stay about 15 feet behind the front line and simply “make a line” to try and push back protestors.
The court learned that Martel’s team was not wearing body cameras and that he
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