[bleep] [background sounds] david: canadian police firing tear gas near protesters in ottawa, this after making a hundred arrests yesterday while cracking down on truckers for defying orders to clear out. matt finn is following it all in ottawa. matt, i saw you in the last hour, and you could hear the sound we thought they were flash and bang rounds, but those were actually rounds from tear gas canisters, right? reporter: you know, it s not entirely clear. it sounded like a flash bang and maybe the tear gas canisters came afterwards. we can t really confirm that right now. but nonetheless, this is still a really tense moment because police are, you know, kind of systematically squeezing out some of the fine protesters her. our understanding that parliament is in session today, so you have the prime minister in there. these people not happy with the prime minister here. so this is pretty much the
in which a 49-year-old woman was reportedly seriously hurt by mounted police on horseback. in another case police used less lethal rounds, things like tear gas canisters and rubber bullets. so that oversight agency looking into that as nearly 200 people were arrested, about half of them facing charges. but the interim police chief here in ottawa is defending the response of police. listen. the vast majority of our members have remained extremely professional. they have executed an extremely methodical plan that has been focused on the safety of the residents, the safety of our officers and the safety of the people engaged in the protests. reporter: part of the
using what is considered less lethal rounds, things like tear gas canisters and rubber bullets to disperse the protesters. the entire country is still under that emergencies act right now. prime minister justin trudeau was asked why is that the case if this issue, as the government considers it, has been resolved? we don t want to keep it in place a single day longer than necessary. the state of emergency is not over appear there continues to be real concerns about the coming days. the emergencies act still has to pass parliament. about expected this evening. the freedom convoy is pushing back, saying truckers as well as demonstrators have dispersed. what reason wants the perpetuation of such police state measures and fear? we ask all members of parliament to carefully reflect upon the historical precedent they are about to set.
first day that police started really moving into this area. and that s when a woman was allegedly seriously hurt by a horse because mounted police were moving into this area. the second has to do with an incident that happened on saturday and what police call less lethal ammunitions which refer to things like gas canisters, tear gas canisters as well as rubber bullets. so police are looking into both of those instances to see if they used too much force in those cases to try to get protesters out of here. there s also criticism of prime minister justin trudeau who, as you know, invoke ised the emergencies act at the beginning of this week. police say that was instrumental in being able to clear the protesters, but a lot of people say the standards were not met to invoke that emergencies act which has never been used before. we learned from federal authorities this weekend, eric,