Hundreds of people on motorcycles and on foot rolled into downtown Ottawa for day 2 of the 'Rolling Thunder' biker event, as a heavy police presence kept an eye on the events.
Hundreds of people on motorcycles and on foot rolled into downtown Ottawa on day 2 of the ‘Rolling Thunder’ biker event, with a strong police presence deployed to keep an eye on the protesters.
Police said a driver was arrested after rushing an OPP motorcycle at a checkpoint in the exclusion zone. “From what we’re hearing from our community is they're happy with our police response. They would prefer these don’t happen, but they understand that people will come to our city and they expect their police service to actually manage it, and I believe we’ve done a fairly good job in that over the weekend.”
"Our intelligence gathering indicates that many convoys have chosen not to come to Ottawa based on the police operational posture," police said."A major goal of our efforts will be to support and protect the CN Cycle for CHEO." “Fear and division equals hate. We may disagree with each other, but we don’t hate each other,” Sheard said.
“The truckers sacrificed, these men sacrificed, these people came here and sacrificed. They spent money to come here, they sacrificed. This is the sort of sacrifice we’re asking for because Canadians need to sacrifice to keep our freedom.”
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