In February, social media users accused a Canadian provincial police force of dodging accountability after several prominent online figures shared claims that officers at the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa had removed identification badges from their uniforms.
The claims were based on a video of officers from the Sûreté du Québec, Quebec's provincial police force, standing shoulder-to-shoulder in a line to prevent protesters from advancing. The Ontario Provincial Police had called the Sûreté for reinforcements after failed attempts to quell the protests, which began as a trucker-led demonstration against cross-border vaccine restrictions and grew into a dayslong occupation of Ottawa.
One Feb. 20 Instagram post of the video from body armor company Hoplite Armor racked up over 24,000 views in less than three weeks.
"Justin Trudeau's SQ (Quebec provincial police service) officers removed their identifying names and badge numbers from their uniforms in Ottawa," text above the video reads in the post.
In its caption of the video, Hoplite Armor condemned the company that had sold the supposedly anonymous uniforms.
"If companies refused to sell gear to these thugs they’d have nothing to oppress you with," the page wrote. "Sadly, I stand alone in that."
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