BREAKING: Canadian police move in to arrest protesters blocking key U.S. border crossing.
“Enforcement actions continue at the demonstration area with arrests being made,” Ontario’s Windsor Police said. “There will be zero tolerance for illegal activity. The public should avoid the area,” it added in separate post.
Television images showed officers arresting the few protesters who remained near the Ambassador Bridge linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario — the busiest border crossing to the U.S., the Associated Press reported. Only two pickup trucks and less than a dozen protesters blocked the road to the bridge before police moved in, according to the AP. Afterward, police barricades remained and it was not immediately clear when the bridge might be opened.
Police officers began to disperse protesters on Saturday after Chief Justice Geoffrey Morawetz of the Ontario Superior Court ordered them to leave. His ruling, at a hearing on Friday, came after the city of Windsor and lawyers for auto parts makers had successfully argued that the blockade was causing undue economic harm for the city and region by disrupting the flow of traffic and goods as well as forcing the auto industry on both sides to roll back production.
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