‘Hold the line:’ ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizers’ criminal trial begins Tuesday
OTTAWA — As Tamara Lich was led away from supporters in handcuffs on the snowy streets of Ottawa in 2022, she threw a single phrase over her shoulder.
“Hold the line,” said the petite figurehead of the “Freedom Convoy” movement as the officers at each of her elbows walked her to the waiting cruiser.
She was echoing the words shouted by of one of her supporters in a scene that was captured on video and circulated online the eve before hundreds of police moved in.
Officers spent the next two days dislodging protesters from the streets around Parliament Hill.