Police threaten to arrest police in fight over lockdown law

TCS Wire

April 23, 2021

Canadian police officers in Aylmer Ontario threatened each other with arrest after police allegedly unlawfully entered Aylmer church property. At least two off-duty officers were on the scene while two on-duty officers prepared an array of charges for the congregants of the embattled church. During the altercation the female officer purportedly threatened to arrest the off-duty female officer.

“You did threaten me – with arrest – an unlawful arrest,” the off-duty officer shot back as the police began writing tickets.

“What authority do you have to be on the property,” the woman asked the armed officers. “I’ve been an officer for over two decades, and I would never, never, ever, put on a uniform and behave the way you do in a place of religion and talk to people the way you two do,” referring to the on-duty police. “It’s an ego thing.”

After a heated argument, the male on-duty officer stormed away, refusing repeated requests for his name and badge number. Providing that information upon request is a legal requirement of police officers in all Canadian jurisdictions.

The police say that 18 people were disobeying provincial law when attending the church. Police Chief Zvonko Horvat defended the alleged unconstitutional action by his on-duty officers saying, “you think that perhaps a warning would suffice and they would comply, but they don’t so the officers are put in the position where they don’t have any other choice but to charge.”

The video was shared by Member of Provincial Parliament Randy Hillier, who added “you won’t hear this in the news, but two officers attending a meeting in the Aylmer Church of God and practicing their right to assembly have been charged under the Reopening Ontario Act.”

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