Footage of a “Freedom Convoy” trucker taking a beating from Canadian police is going viral, with the protester contending that while the Ottawa police “broke my body a little bit,” his spirit was not damaged.
“I got down from my truck, I went down right on my knee, I put my hands behind my head,” said Csaba Vizi, a 20-year-old Canadian resident hailing from Romania. “I was waiting for them to take me away. In that moment, the police officers — they start to punch me with those sticks, they were yelling to me, ‘Go back! Go back!’ And I just told them, ‘Hey, I’m the driver.'”
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“They drag me in, they lie me down on my belly, and I don’t — I don’t recall how many were on top of me … I felt like I was beaten, but I took it like a man,” Vizi said.
The young driver described his injuries in one sentence. “They broke my body a little bit, but not my spirit.”
Vizi said he expected to be arrested after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau enacted the Emergencies Act, but he never thought he’d be beaten.
Truckers like Vizi first took to the streets of Canada’s capital weeks ago, clogging up roads and protesting for an end to the nation’s vaccine mandates.
As a result, Trudeau invoked the nation’s Emergencies Act, granting the federal government and authorities controversial powers to restore order.
“Those who are willing to give their life for this cause need much more than being threatened with arrest, with fines, with losing insurance,” Vizi told Fox News. “I moved to Canada — everything was wonderful … I was so happy. I said, ‘Jeez, that is so nice.’ Everything was beautiful in the last 20 years I can say.”
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“But the last two years, it’s like impossible to live here anymore.”
