Police began arresting protesters Friday in a bid to break the three-week siege of Canada’s capital. Hundreds of officers descended into the protest zone and led demonstrators away in handcuffs as drivers blared their horns in defiance.
Protesters dance and embrace as a song plays over the speakers, during an ongoing protest against COVID-19 measures that has grown into a broader anti-government protest, in Ottawa, Ontario, on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022.
OTTAWA, Ontario — Hugs under the falling snow, dancing in the street, people warming themselves around fires. That’s what the last few hours of a truckers’ protest outside Parliament looked like in the Canadian capital. For more than three weeks, semitrucks, cars and pickups sat idle along streets in downtown Ottawa, as hundreds of truckers and other protesters parked side by side and bumper to bumper to oppose vaccine mandates and other COVID restrictions. The demonstrations also createdThe protesters set up camp in what authorities called an illegal occupation, and refused police orders to leave. The long honks of semitruck horns blared through the streets, despite a court injunction against it.
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