100 Vancouver Police Sent to Protect Trudeau After Protest Surrounds Restaurant

Vancouver Police Deploy 100 Officers to Secure Trudeau Amid Restaurant Protest

November 15, 2023 TruthUSA

Vancouver police say 100 officers were dispatched to a restaurant where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was dining on Nov. 14, after it was surrounded by protesters chanting for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.

Police say one man was arrested for assaulting an officer, and another for obstruction, while social media videos showed protesters waving Palestinian flags, shouting slogans, and jeering Mr. Trudeau outside the restaurant in Vancouver’s Chinatown.

Sgt. Steve Addison says the officers were sent to control the crowd so Mr. Trudeau could leave the restaurant just before 10 p.m.

Sgt. Addison says a 27-year-old man from Coquitlam, B.C., was arrested after an officer was punched in the face and her eyes gouged while she was trying to disperse the crowd.

He says the officer was taken to hospital.

Videos posted earlier in the evening show Mr. Trudeau being heckled by protesters inside Vij’s, a restaurant in a different part of the city.