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.
Enforcement actions continue at the demonstration area with arrests being made. Vehicles being towed. Please continue avoiding the area.
— Windsor Police (@WindsorPolice) February 13, 2022
Breaking News: Canadian police are arresting protesters near Ontario’s Ambassador Bridge, a vital U.S. crossing and major site of recent demonstrations.
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— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 13, 2022
BREAKING: Police have moved in to clear and arrest protesters opposed to COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other restrictions near the Ambassador Bridge, a key U.S.-Canadian border crossing. Fewer than a dozen people blocked the road at the time. https://t.co/GkHqcW63gQ
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 13, 2022
Police have cleared the entire Windsor protest zone and are pushing back anyone remaining who may be blocking the road leading to the Ambassador Bridge pic.twitter.com/MKx3o9C4gt
— Thomas Daigle (@thomasdaigle) February 13, 2022
The road to the Ambassador Bridge remains closed but it looks like it would be ready to re-open to traffic to and from the U.S. today pic.twitter.com/t0FrmlAucj
— Thomas Daigle (@thomasdaigle) February 13, 2022