Ottawa police and city lawyers are discussing applying for a court injunction as means of ending the ongoing trucker convoy protest, with Ottawa Police Service Chief Peter Sloly saying Wednesday that the situation is intolerable and unprecedented.
Some of the main organizers for the Freedom Convoy spoke to reporters Thursday at a press conference decrying that they had been painted as racists, misogynists…and even terrorists, and that no one from the federal or provincial government had met with them.
Crowds are thinning on Parliament Hill, but a lingering cohort of protesters has vowed to stay the course as the trucker protest neared the end of a fourth day in Ottawa, despite condemnations, calls to go home, and arrests.
Ottawa Police Service Chief Peter Sloly says the trucker convoy protest has been intolerable and unprecedented, and that officers have been pushed to the limit and injured in the course of their duties.