Police Asked Bikers Church Group To Attend Protests: Pastor

This is a concerning post from the hard-working community group Applewood Acres and Beyond which kindly allows us to reprint its material in The Bulldog.

In an astounding revelation, a right-wing bikers church organization claims at a city committee that is was repeatedly invited by Ottawa police to attend protests.

This from the Applewood Acres group:

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Hi All,

Discussion about the City passing a bylaw that would include restrictions about where protests could be held (with potential distances set away from places such as schools, daycares, hospitals, religious facilities), continues.

The joint Emergency Preparedness and Protective Services and Public Works and Infrastructure Committee meeting began discussions yesterday and … with public presentations ended and discussion among the committee members to continue this afternoon with a vote expected to determine if staff will be directed to work on a draft bylaw to be presented to Committee and/or Council in about nine months.

We are certain mainstream media will have coverage on today’s meeting and this note is about something that came up at yesterday’s meeting when Committee members heard from Rob McKee, Lead pastor at Capital City Bikers’ Church in Vanier.

During his presentation, McKee said he had been ‘invited’ to many protests (see more details below) by a police liaison officer — and he shared the officer’s first name — Derek — and said the officer is now back on street duty.

Here is the info (including two clips from the presentation) that Horizon Ottawa’s Sam Hersh shared on X yesterday (and note, he McKee appeared before the joint committee, not Council):

Sam Hersh @SamHersh01

This is Rob McKee who just spoke in front of #ottcity council. For those who don’t know Rob, he is the leader of the far-right, anti-trans Bikers Church in Ottawa. In the clip, he openly says that @OttawaPolice INVITED him to join anti-trans protests…wtf…

Video addresses

https://x.com/i/status/1923134564215443913 — where McKee says they were invited to many protests by police liaison

And then Laine Johnson asks him who — which liaison officer — invited him to protests — and he gives the name “Derek’ and says that the former liaison officer is now back on foot patrol.

Video address

https://x.com/i/status/1923134017840316502

Sam Hersh

He says he didn’t go “by choice” rather that OPS encouraged him to go. The protests at Broadview School were meant to intimidate kids, parents and students who supported trans rights. The Bikers Church hosted people from the Freedom Convoy when they came to Ottawa in 2022.

Sam Hersh

The @OttawaPolice need to answer for this, how many more people are they “encouraging” to go to these protests? Why were they doing it? Who else in the far-right are they in contact with?

More to come as we find it.

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