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Nobody intimidated or enact violence against Ottawa residents. Based on what I saw with my own eyes last week, protesters and truckers are friendly and peaceful

Nobody intimidated or enact violence against Ottawa residents. Based on what I saw with my own eyes last week, protesters and truckers are friendly and peaceful. IDK maybe they turn to werewolves at night, but the most aggressive thing I saw there was "fuck trudeau" signs everywhere.

pkd 5y ago
My friend was accosted for wearing a mask on Saturday in a restaurant. One of the two downtown grocery stores had to close because the employees were being intimated by the protestors to let them inside without a mask. A neighborhood ice cream store employee was assaulted for wearing a mask while walking to work, and the store closed down. The biggest shopping center downtown has been closed for 3 weeks, putting over a thousand people out of a job because the protestors kept trying to force their way in to stores without wearing masks. These are not protests against the government. They harm actual people on the ground trying to get on with their lives. I'm sorry the YouTube streams have not shown any of this. Who'd have thought that even youtubers can have editorial intent!
- ersii 5y ago
  What does being accosted entail? If it's a matter of being heckled or laughed at, surely one has to be able to deal with that and not scream bloody murder. (We haven't had mask mandates here in Sweden, so your situation with masks seems peculiar and a bit weird from here)
  - joshlemer 5y ago
    Practically speaking, a heckling and laughing at from a large group of angry protesters against a single person minding their own business is basically an unspoken threat of violence. It is definitely intimidation.
  - pkd 5y ago
    Being asked to take their mask off in a belligerent way. We can argue about the relativity of violence all day long - but the fact is that this behaviour was not really heard of before the protests began and can be traumatising. My friend was with a group so they were able to handle the situation but there have been incidents of things going worse. Moreover, the mask mandates are provincial, not federal. If people are opposed to that, they should go heckle at Doug Ford, the Ontario Premier in Toronto, not at Trudeau in Ottawa. The fact is that the protestors don't have a common coherent narrative.
jsjsbdkj 5y ago
Both of the grocery stores downtown closed because of alteractions with protestors. Front-line workers have been affected the most because they can't avoid going out. The rest of us are mostly not going downtown because there's rampant harassment if you're a woman, queer, POC, etc.
- stackedinserter 5y ago
  Unless everything drastically changed since the previous weekend, it's outright lie.

pkd 5y ago

My friend was accosted for wearing a mask on Saturday in a restaurant. One of the two downtown grocery stores had to close because the employees were being intimated by the protestors to let them inside without a mask. A neighborhood ice cream store employee was assaulted for wearing a mask while walking to work, and the store closed down. The biggest shopping center downtown has been closed for 3 weeks, putting over a thousand people out of a job because the protestors kept trying to force their way in to stores without wearing masks. These are not protests against the government. They harm actual people on the ground trying to get on with their lives. I'm sorry the YouTube streams have not shown any of this. Who'd have thought that even youtubers can have editorial intent!

ersii 5y ago
What does being accosted entail? If it's a matter of being heckled or laughed at, surely one has to be able to deal with that and not scream bloody murder. (We haven't had mask mandates here in Sweden, so your situation with masks seems peculiar and a bit weird from here)
- joshlemer 5y ago
  Practically speaking, a heckling and laughing at from a large group of angry protesters against a single person minding their own business is basically an unspoken threat of violence. It is definitely intimidation.
- pkd 5y ago
  Being asked to take their mask off in a belligerent way. We can argue about the relativity of violence all day long - but the fact is that this behaviour was not really heard of before the protests began and can be traumatising. My friend was with a group so they were able to handle the situation but there have been incidents of things going worse. Moreover, the mask mandates are provincial, not federal. If people are opposed to that, they should go heckle at Doug Ford, the Ontario Premier in Toronto, not at Trudeau in Ottawa. The fact is that the protestors don't have a common coherent narrative.

jsjsbdkj 5y ago

Both of the grocery stores downtown closed because of alteractions with protestors. Front-line workers have been affected the most because they can't avoid going out. The rest of us are mostly not going downtown because there's rampant harassment if you're a woman, queer, POC, etc.

stackedinserter 5y ago
Unless everything drastically changed since the previous weekend, it's outright lie.