Thu Sep 7, 2023 – 8:03 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – During the second day of the trial for Freedom Convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, an Ottawa police officer testified that he was under direct orders to not give protesters an “inch” and allow them to protest closer to Canada’s Parliament building, which he said would have mitigated disruptions to the city.
“OPS (Ontario Provincial Police) was expecting about 1,000 vehicles, but more than 5,000 came before the end of the last weekend in January,” The Democracy Fund (TDF) noted yesterday on X (formerly Twitter).
The TDF said that about two-thirds of the protesters left by the end of the “last weekend in January. But the footprint of the protest was the same and the police were unable to shrink it.”
“The OPS traffic plan did not work for footprint of the protest,” the TDF said.
“Witness wanted to use public liaison officers to shrink the protest and concentrate it on Wellington, but he was directed by command not to give ‘one inch’ to the protesters.”
The “witness,” or Ottawa Police Service Inspector Lucas Russell, was the incident commander for the Freedom Convoy and
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