Ottawa Residents Report Assaults, Homophobic Slurs

The CBC reports:

Residents described being bombarded by relentless honking, fireworks, being choked by diesel fumes, seeing hate symbols openly displayed, subjected to racial, homophobic and transphobic slurs, attacked for wearing masks, and feeling let down by all levels of government and police since the first vehicles set up Jan. 28.

“I am a Jewish woman. On top of the deafening honking and stench of diesel, seeing the rampant anti-Semitism and the harassment of women for wearing masks was incredibly distressing,” one person wrote in an email.

Yet another wrote she was confronted on her way to the grocery store. “I was shoved, screamed at, called [sexist and homophobic slurs], and had three large men try to pen me in and physically block my way, because I was wearing a mask.”

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A reminder that the real people whose freedoms are being denied are Ottawa residents. https://t.co/62M0LlZkhY

— Catherine McKenna (@cathmckenna) February 8, 2022

Centretown ice cream shop closes after worker reports assault https://t.co/gB8nJAF8Jf #ottnews #ottawa pic.twitter.com/vkkyEp1Odx

— CBC Ottawa (@CBCOttawa) February 7, 2022

So in downtown Ottawa there’s noise complaints & allegations of an occupation, siege, terrorism, assault, rape & death threats & police can’t act? That’s nonsense. If these things are really happening police have every right to act. So why haven’t they? https://t.co/5ito44Ph0m

— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) February 6, 2022

A dear friends brother was jumped by nazi dipshits draped in Canadian flags on the street in Ottawa and is out of work for a few weeks while he recovers. Please share and help if you can. https://t.co/KQV0ufpKk8

— Niko Stratis (@nikostratis) February 8, 2022