Victoria police shut down the 1 Million March 4 Children parental rights rally at the Legislature after just 15 minutes, when masked counter-protestors in black hoodies pushed past police and rushed the stage.
Police shut down Victoria parental rights march within 15 minutes | True North | Lindsay Shepherd:
September 22, 2023 - "[W]omen’s rights advocate Meghan Murphy was only five minutes into her speech at the Victoria, B.C. 1 Million March 4 Children parental rights rally when police told organizers to shut down the event and leave. The march planned for later that afternoon never happened, as Victoria police (VicPD) ordered an end to the protest within 15 minutes of it starting on Wednesday, Murphy told True North.
"Murphy, as well as other rally speakers and organizers, were demonstrating on the B.C. legislature grounds in support of parental rights and removing gender identity ideology from school curricula. According to VicPD, 'At approximately 12:30 p.m., counter-protesters pushed past police and rushed the stage, creating an unsafe environment, and a decision was made to cease further planned activities.' Two arrests were made.
""A contingent of rainbow-wearing counter-protesters ... [kept] a distance from the main protest. However, busloads of young counter-protesters wearing black hoodies began arriving at the grounds, and streams of the masked agitators headed straight for the stage.
"Murphy said VicPD was to blame. 'The Victoria Police had committed to keeping the protesters away, there wasn’t supposed to be any physical contact between the counter-protesters and the people there to attend the rally, many of whom are parents, moms with kids, elderly women,' Murphy recounted. 'The police didn’t even attempt to separate protesters from us.'
"Murphy said that a counter-protester rushing the stage punched a police officer in the head and was promptly tackled to the ground by other officers. At that point, police shut down the entire affair.... Police and security escorted Murphy to her car when she left.
"'Following escalating tensions at a large demonstration in front of the BC Legislature today, with approximately 2,500 people in attendance, VicPD Officers are asking citizens to leave, and for others to avoid the area,' the department stated in a September 20 community notice....
"Dozens of 1 Million March 4 Children protests with hundreds or even thousands of attendees took place across the country, but the Victoria event was the only one shut down by police."
Read more: https://tnc.news/2023/09/22/police-shut-down-victoria-march/
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