{"id":174198,"date":"2022-05-01T14:44:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T06:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=174198"},"modified":"2022-05-01T14:44:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T06:44:59","slug":"heavy-police-presence-keeps-motorcycle-protest-controlled-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=174198","title":{"rendered":"Heavy police presence keeps motorcycle protest controlled in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/I9vIZ27A4ygZAJDVKcnSSMFK8BU=\/600x0\/filters:quality(80):format(jpeg)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/tgam\/HFOI4X6LPJFOJKOZS6XGDVWF4A.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Rolling Thunder protestors are seen in Ottawa<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>OTTAWA, May 1 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Ottawa police officers continued their enhanced operations in the downtown area of Canada&#8217;s capital city to manage protests and events of this weekend&#8217;s Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ottawa Police said in a news release that three people have been arrested on the second day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other enforcement actions since Friday morning included 560 parking tickets, 39 vehicles towed and eight tickets for noise, smoking and encumbering highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protest is billed as an event to support Canadian veterans, with many veterans attending, although the &#8220;Rolling Thunder Ottawa&#8221; website gives no reason for the event. Some protesters are opposed to COVID-19 mandates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was estimated that between one and two thousand people showed up on Saturday, a far cry from February&#8217;s numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city of Ottawa has brought in tight restrictions in anticipation of this weekend&#8217;s protest to avoid a repeat of the anti-mandate convoy&#8217;s occupation in late January and February, during which Downtown Ottawa was occupied for three weeks, resulting in a public order emergency.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA, May 1 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Ottawa police officers continued their enhanced operations in the downtown area of Canada&#8217;s capital city to manage protests and events of this weekend&#8217;s Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally. Ottawa Police said in a news release that three people have been arrested on the second day. Other enforcement actions since Friday morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174200,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174198\/revisions\/174200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}