Well it looks like the Trucker Protest in Ottawa is over. Most of the protestors left on their own and the rest were pushed out by police.

I for one am glad to see an end to the occupation and even gladder to see that it happened with virtually no violence from either side.
Well done.
When the protest stopped being a party and they were faced with actual consequences for their actions, most of the protestors lost their stomach for the "freedom" convoy.
Ottawa residents can stop being imprisoned in their own city and people can get back to work.

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ElwoodBlues · M

With moves like this, the truckers destroyed whatever support they once had.

Pikachu

@ElwoodBlues

Bringing their children into it was the stupidest thing they could have done both for public opinion and as parents.

ElwoodBlues · M

@Pikachu Agreed. However, not everyone agrees:

caesar7 · 61-69, M

@Pikachu I agree 110%. That was very low on their part.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@ElwoodBlues I hope CFS pays them a visit.

caesar7 · 61-69, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow agreed

Pikachu

@ElwoodBlues

lol that cook.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@ElwoodBlues Goddamn, hippie is as much of a moron as ever.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@ElwoodBlues Did they really put kids on a busy highway knowing that sometimes drivers run into them? Huh. Nice. Well most are anti vaxxers so maybe they can't kill their kids by polio anymore so now they've taken to that.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@SatanBurger Not to mention it is winter in Canada.

These people need a visit from CFS.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I hope that happens, we teach kids to be out of the road for a reason, they should get it for child endangerment.

ElwoodBlues · M

@SatanBurger [quote]Did they really put kids on a busy highway ... [/quote] I wasn't there, so I can't say for sure exactly what happened, but there's no good interpretation of this.

As far as I can tell, the pictures originated as tweets among the truckers (*). I assume this is a highway ramp on the Canadian side to the Ambassador bridge to the US (curves, 50mph sign). I assume that farther along, the bridge was blocked by truckers, and most traffic diverted somewhere else. So I assume the most likely traffic along the bridge would have been police headed to the truckers.

That doesn't help anything. Telling kids its OK to stop police cars with lights & sirens is still an awful lesson. Every bit as bad as telling kids its OK to stand in the middle of a multi-lane highway.

(*) I used google image search to look for the origins of the images. It's almost all on twitter, facebook, & reddit; has not been picked up by commercial media. I assume that's because commercial media can't publish the image without copyright permission, and the rights are murky here. I think the images are legitimate because the second image captures who was tweeting it about. Another user here found one of the original tweets and responded to it; that says it's legit.