https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/17/opinion/ottawa-protest-convoy.html
Michelle Goldberg
The Giddy, Terrifying Siege of Ottawa
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-s-rideau-centre-mall-locked-down-one-person-arrested-1.5791220
Ottawa's Rideau Centre mall locked down, one person arrested
Ottawa police say they have one person in custody after the Rideau Centre mall was locked down.
"One person is in custody, the police operation is ongoing," police tweeted early Tuesday afternoon.
Officers with guns drawn could be seen outside the mall, including near the entrance to the Rideau transit station. Heavily armed tactical officers could be seen entering a mall entrance on Rideau Street.
Police are urging people to avoid the area. A message sent to employees said the building was locked down due to an emergency.
Employees who hadn't been evacuated were instructed to lock down within stores and stay away from the doors. A later message to mall tenants said police would be sweeping the mall floor-by-floor and store-by-store.
"There was an incident at the shopping centre earlier this afternoon," a spokesperson for Cadillac Fairview, the mall's owner, said in a statement. "The police immediately tended to the scene and the centre remains closed at this time."
Police earlier tweeted they responded to a shoplifting call with a "possible weapon," that one person was arrested and there was no threat to public safety, but then deleted the tweet.
Mall employee Duran Mohamed was inside when police arrived early Tuesday afternoon.
"All of a sudden I hear security just yelling, trying to get everybody to evacuate the store," he said. Police then came into his store telling customers to leave, he said.
Another woman, Julia Niblock, said she was on the ground floor of the Hudson's Bay store across from the mall when she looked outside and saw police arresting a woman.
Several witnesses earlier reported the power went out inside the shopping centre. Customers just inside an entrance on Rideau Street were told to leave and run west, toward Sussex Drive soon after police arrived.
Police are asking people to avoid the area. Ottawa's LRT service was suspended between uOttawa and Parliament stations, but has since resumed.
It's the mall's first day open in more than three weeks. It closed during the 'Freedom Convoy' occupation of downtown Ottawa, causing employees to lose wages and stores to lose revenue.
"I just feel so sorry for the poor employees at the mall," Niblock said. "It’s their first day reopening and it’s what, two hours before this happens? So my sympathies are really more with them.”
https://twitter.com/OttawaPolice/status/1496179693720162309
Due to an ongoing police operation, please avoid Dalhousie Street to the Canal and the Mackenzie King Bridge.
https://twitter.com/OttawaPolice/status/1496185534707818501
One person is in custody, the police operation in ongoing.
>Police earlier tweeted they responded to a shoplifting call with a "possible weapon," that one person was arrested and there was no threat to public safety, but then deleted the tweet.
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