Windsor Police Clear Remaining Protesters At Bridge

February 13, 2022 Canada, Covidiots

The CBC reports:

Officers from multiple police forces began advancing toward protesters on Sunday morning to break up a days-long occupation near the Ambassador Bridge border crossing in Windsor, Ont.

A group of protesters opposing pandemic-era laws such as vaccine mandates has been at the bridge since Monday, blocking what is typically Canada’s busiest border crossing. On Friday, a judge granted an injunction demanding that the protesters clear the bridge by that evening.

While some people left immediately, including some transport trucks, a crowd remained and even swelled heading into Saturday evening.

The Detroit Free Press reports:

Several hundred demonstrators protested Saturday, despite a large police presence that initially pushed them back from the entrance.

Around 4:40 p.m., a crew used earth-moving equipment to position concrete barricades across Huron Church Road, which carries traffic to the toll booths of the bridge. The barricades were the first moves of the afternoon after a busy morning.

All the pickups and semi-trucks that had stayed overnight Friday drove off by mid-morning, leaving about 50 protesters on foot. A line of police then pushed them back several hundred yards past College Avenue.

Click On Detroit reports:



Ontario and Windsor police took decisive action Sunday morning as they worked to clear protesters from the Ambassador Bridge area by making arrests and moving vehicles that had been parked there for days. Police began moving in on protesters lingering in the area, including two pickup trucks that had been parked and blocking the road for several days.

Ontario police then walked half a mile to another intersection, where a second convoy of vehicles had set up in protest, including a tractor, an RV and several pickup trucks. They had been parked in the area for at least one day. As police started walking toward that convoy Sunday morning, those vehicles began to leave.

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