Injury from police horse during convoy protest too minor to investigate, SIU says

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Ontario’s police watchdog has closed its investigation of an interaction between a police horse and a woman during the convoy protest in Ottawa because her injury was not serious enough to fall under the organization’s jurisdiction. 

The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said in a Monday press release the 49-year-old woman sustained a “strained shoulder” after she had an “interaction” with a Toronto Police Service mounted officer during the final weekend that protesters were occupying downtown streets. 

She was among a group of protesters on Rideau Street in front of the Fairmont Château Laurier on the evening of Feb. 18 when mounted officers entered the crowd to create distance between protesters and police, the release said. 

A horse near the edge of the unit “contacted” a man and a woman, knocking them to the ground. Officers on foot surrounded the two — as did protesters — and the woman was helped to her feet, according to the SIU.

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