Ottawa Police Threaten to Arrest Media Covering Freedom Convoy Arrests By Cassandra Fairbanks
The Ottawa Police have threatened to arrest members of the media who are covering the Freedom Convoy arrests.
The threat comes one day after a vow from Interim Police Chief Steve Bell to crack down on the protest.
On Thursday evening, two key organizers of the convoy were arrested.
Tamara Lich, a spokesperson for the demonstration and organizer of the GoFundMe and GiveSendGo fundraisers, and organizer Chris Barber, were both arrested.
According to the Freedom Convoy Twitter account, Lich and Barber have been charged with “counseling to commit mischief.”
Barber has additionally been charged with “counseling to commit obstruction.”
We are going to take back the entirety of the downtown core and every occupied space,” Ottawa Interim Police Chief Steve Bell told the city council on Wednesday.
“It will be a very different picture of the downtown core this weekend than it has been from the previous three weekends,” Bell said. “We want people to peacefully leave. But I can tell you that if they do not peacefully leave, we have plans, strategies and tactics to be able to get them to leave.”
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