The Ottawa Police Service says four people are facing charges after people participating in a pro-Palestinian demonstration in downtown Ottawa “ignored directions from police and blocked a street.”
The Ottawa chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement organized a rally Monday night, calling it an “Ottawa tour of arms corporations.”
“Join us on a walking tour of downtown Ottawa, where we will stop at each complicit weapons manufacturer and remind them, we know what side of history they are on,” the Palestinian Youth Movement said on Instagram.
Police said the demonstrators were advised by the Police Liaison Team members “multiple times” that they would need to “limit their demonstrations to the sidewalk and not obstruct traffic.”
“After a 20-minute delay, where the demonstrators took over a portion of the intersection of Elgin Street at Nepean Street blocking the City of Ottawa parking garage, the demonstrators began the walking protest on the …