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Update: On Wednesday morning, Canadian Police checked on the demonstrators after an extremely cold, freezing night. “We need to have a table discussion with Jason Kenney,” the truckers told the officers. “It’s time now that we discuss what’s going on, and what Albertans want. We need change, it can’t continue like this… People are upset, they’re done with this.”
Also, while Rebel News documents this historic protest from the side of the truckers, mainstream media reporters are hanging out with the RCMP and keeping their distance from the actual blockade.
While our Rebel reporters(@kiansimone44, @SydFizzard) were inside the convoy blockade, the state broadcaster(CBC) were riding along with the RCMP with their permission.
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Footage shows a group of truckers barreling through a police blockade set up to prevent more people from linking up with the Alberta/Montana border blockade.
After Canadian police gave truckers demonstrating as part of the “Freedom Convoy 2022” protest an ultimatum to stop blocking the Canada-Montana border or be arrested, the grassroots group of working-class Canadians said they’d rather be hauled off in handcuffs than submit.
In videos uploaded online by Rebel News videographer Kian Simone, protesters can be seen asking to open up a line of communication between them and senior police officials.
However, police representatives sent to negotiate told them, “If you do not wish to have your truck impounded and be arrested, you are being given the option to move out to your vehicle and leave. Once we start enforcement action, people will be arrested, trucks will be impounded and seized.”
Truckers were given a grace period to move their trucks, and those who don’t will allegedly be arrested.
Go to truckerlawyer.ca to help out with paying legal fees for those who may be apprehended.
Eventually, the entire group of truckers walked all the way to the end of their blockade to try and talk with the police themselves.
As they stood at the end of the blockade, the demonstrators loudly chanted, “Freedom!” before singing the Canadian national anthem.
At the other end of the blockade, police formed a line.
As soon as the group of protesters made its way to the end of the blockade where the police were, the RCMP immediately fled.
When the police left, truckers and farmers moved more equipment into the spaces officers were occupying before retreating.
Lawyer for the truckers Chad Williamson provided an update after police left, asking if law enforcement returns, “How the heck are they going to move these hundreds of rigs and pieces of agricultural, farm equipment, passenger vehicles? This is a problem that seems to be spreading across the country with other blockades in other locations. And while the RCMP have shut down negotiations with my team, we think it would be incumbent upon them to come back to the negotiation table.”
After reports that the police are mobilizing nearby, demonstrators began moving more vehicles to block other possible entries to the blockade at the border.
This article will be updated as more footage and information becomes available.
