Canadian police start arresting Ottawa protesters

(18 Feb 2022) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4366762 Police began arresting protesters Friday in a bid to break the three-week, traffic-snarling siege of Canada’s capital by hundreds of truckers angry over the country’s COVID-19 restrictions. Officers, some carrying automatic weapons and wearing tactical unit uniforms, were seen going door to door along a line of trucks, campers and other vehicles parked on Ottawa’s snow-covered streets. “I don’t want to get arrested today because I want to be able to continue fighting my fight, and I’ve heard word that... if I do get arrested I’d have to sign a paper saying, I’m not coming back to Ottawa, but we need to go somewhere, this is my right to be here,“ Jeromy Glass, who is protesting the vaccine mandates, said. Glass is not with the truckers but is protesting along side them “for the people that can’t be here.“ Some protesters surrendered and were taken into custody, police said. So