False trampling death rumours at Ottawa protests a sign of misinformation campaign, police say – By Joanne Chianello (CBC News) / February 19, 2022
No one seriously injured when officers rode in on Friday, according to police
It was one of the most dramatic moments of Friday’s massive police action designed to end the three-week-long demonstration in Ottawa.
Roughly 10 officers on horseback rode down Rideau Street late in the afternoon, leading to two people being knocked over — and a persistent social media rumour that one woman had been trampled.
For more than five hours Friday, hundreds of police officers from across the country — including from the OPP, Sûreté du Quebec, Toronto’s public order unit, and officers from Durham region — moved intermittently from the eastern edges of the core, pressing protesters out of the ByWard Market, off Sussex Street and north on Colonel By Drive.
By mid-afternoon, a line of armed officers several persons deep stood nose-to-nose with protesters, spanning Rideau Street from the Château Laurier hotel to the Senate Building.
