REALITY CHECK: Did The Ottawa Police Chief Say That ‘Every Single Canadian Who Supported Truckers Will Be Hunted Down And Ruined’?

A post shared on Facebook claims interim Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell stated that “Every single Canadian who supported truckers will be pursued and messed up.”

Verdict: False

There is no proof Bell made this declaration. An agent for the Ottawa Police Department rejected the claim.

Fact Check:

A big group of Canadian truckers shown up in Ottawa previously this year where they staged a weeks-long presentation versus pandemic-related constraints, according to CBC A current Facebook post declares that Bell revealed his intent to “pursue and mess up” all Canadians who supported the presentations.

” Ottawa Police Chief: ‘Every Single Canadian Who Supported Truckers Will Be Hunted Down and Ruined,'” checks out the Facebook post. “Chief, it seems like you remain in the incorrect type of work. To hear a public servant (specifically a Chief) speak like this, genuinely revolts me.”

There is, nevertheless, no proof that Bell made such a declaration. No such quote appears on the Ottawa Police site There are similarly no reliable report that associate such a quote to the cops chief.

” The quote is incorrect,” an agent for the Ottawa Police Department validated in an e-mail to Check Your Fact. ( RELATED: Does This Video Show Ottawa Police Violently Restraining A Man?)

While there is no proof Bell made the declaration credited to him in the post, he did make a comparable remark throughout a interview in February about the presentation. ” If you are associated with this demonstration, we will actively seek to determine you and follow up with monetary sanctions and criminal charges, definitely,” stated Bell. “This examination will go on for months to come.”

The made post appears to come from a 2022 NewsPunch post NewsPunch was previously called YourNewsWire up until the site altered its domain in an effort to avoid Facebook’s fact-checking system, according to Poynter