We brought you the story about the two people who had been run over by the Ottawa police on their horses.
The police ran their horses into a crowd of protesters much faster than they should have, despite the protesters being peaceful. You can see them knock over a woman who was on what appeared to be a disability scooter, and a man in a brown coat with a knit hat, who was trying to shield her or push her out of the way of the horses.
Police in Ottawa trample protesters with horses.
0:11 mark. pic.twitter.com/JS4ndtjYJN
— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) February 18, 2022
This is the lady who was trampled. Watch all the way to the end. pic.twitter.com/d1Y6IJqsI0
— Candice Malcolm (@CandiceMalcolm) February 19, 2022
Both were knocked to the ground, as people yelled about them being trampled. There were later reports that the woman had died, but as far as we can tell, at this point, that was a false rumor, as she was standing up after the incident.
The police say that everyone was able to get up okay afterward. But the police also appear to have told a whopper of a lie about the incident, claiming that a bicycle had been thrown at the horse.
As this was happening a bicycle was thrown at the feet of one of the horses in an attempt to injure it. One person was arrested for intentionally harming a police service animal.
— Ottawa Police (@OttawaPolice) February 18, 2022
From what we can see from the multiple videos, there was no “bicycle” thrown. The disabled woman had a scooter which she didn’t throw, since pictures show her still on it after she is run over by the police horses.
Police in Ottawa trampled protesters with horses today. pic.twitter.com/VPLX5XpDhf
— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) February 18, 2022
Now, there was another protester with a bicycle but he didn’t throw it, as we can see here. And he had nothing to do with them running over the other people. He was holding onto it as a barrier against the police; it’s a common protester move.
Thank you Twitter. Here is footage of the real bicycle. Watch for yourself (0:09 on). Doesn’t look like anything was thrown, or came close to the horses, from my perspective. pic.twitter.com/OYmtRLuXa5
— Candice Malcolm (@CandiceMalcolm) February 19, 2022
The police never should have run the horses that fast into a crowd of people. That’s a bad move right down the line. If no one was seriously hurt — and we don’t know that yet — it was by the grace of God, not because the police acted properly.
If the bicycle you allege was thrown was really just the mobility scooter of the disabled woman you trampled, you really ought to delete these tweets and apologize, @OttawaPolice pic.twitter.com/DT7jCsDiRC
— Candice Malcolm (@CandiceMalcolm) February 19, 2022
Then their story kept evolving from thrown bicycle to adding later that the “horse tripped.” The horses didn’t trip; they ran them right at the people. This isn’t going to look good for Justin Trudeau, when these pictures are splashed all over the front pages of media. This is where his invocation of the Emergencies Act has brought this. He got the violence he was talking about, and it was on the part of the police. The police had also said that no one was hurt, despite multiple videos of them kicking and beating people. So at this point, the police need to answer up for their actions.
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