Investigators are looking into two police-related incidents that occurred on Saturday during the Freedom Convoy trucker protest in Ottawa, Canada.
A Special Investigations Unit from Ontario is conducting an investigation surrounding “two police-involved incidents” during the protests, the SIU said in a statement, according to CNN. One incident involved a police officer on horseback and a 49-year-old woman, while a second incident involved a group of police officers aiming “Anti-Riot Weapon Enfields” at a crowd of protesters.
The unit “is urging anyone who has information, including video, to come forward,” the SIU said.
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Around 5:14 p.m., a “Toronto Police Service officer on a horse and a 49-year-old woman on Rideau Street and Mackenzie Avenue” got into an altercation, according to a statement from the SIU. “The woman has a reported serious injury.”
Another separate incident occurred around 7:18 p.m. between officers from the Vancouver Police Department and a crowd of demonstrators, according to the SIU’s statement. “Officers discharged Anti-Riot Weapon Enfields (less-lethal firearms) at individuals in the area of Sparks Street and Bank Street.”
“The SIU asks anyone who may have been struck by a projectile to contact the unit,” the agency said.
By Sunday morning, there had been roughly 191 people arrested by officers, according to the Ottawa Police Department.
More than 100 protesters, including four organizers of the Freedom Convoy movement, were arrested as multiple Canadian law enforcement agencies and tactical units worked together to clear demonstration sites.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau enacted on Monday the never-before-used Emergencies Act, which provides the government with the power to prohibit the public from assembling and traveling in response to the demonstrations. The act allows the government to arrest people and freeze their funds.
Truckers, who call themselves the “Freedom Convoy,” have been assembling for about a month over a rule requiring Canadian truckers traveling back from the United States to show proof of vaccination. The weeks-long protests have created a backlog at several border crossings.
