Russell Lucas Witness Summary Day 9 of the Emergencies Act Public Inquiry

Witnesses Russell Lucas ,Ottawa police Inspector, Day 9 of Emergencies Act Public Inquiry. Key testimony from Day 9 of Public Hearings, October 25, 2022 Public Inquiry for the Invocation of the Emergencies Act.

Russell Lucas’ Ottawa police Inspector, response when asked if the protest was unprecedented says: “The topics of mandates, restrictions, vaccinations is an extremely divisive topic, I’ve seen it in my own family.”

On the deal to move trucks onto Wellington Street: Russell Lucas, OPS Inspector testifies that Ottawa police knew there was still space on Wellington Street to relocate trucks out of residential areas.

OPS Inspector Russell Lucas discusses “disinformation and misinformation and its impact on the policing of the Freedom Convoy” “creating a different narrative that you are trying to deal with” eg: “they are fortifying Parliament Hill”

Russell Lucas testifying on deescalation tactics and that the idea that police supported convoy was misinformation: “If that means taking a picture with them, that’s what we encourage our officers to do.”