False trampling death rumours at Ottawa protests a sign of misinformation campaign, police say

It was one of the most dramatic moments of Friday’s massive police action designed to end the three-week-long demonstration in Ottawa.

Roughly 10 officers on horseback rode down Rideau Street late in the afternoon, leading to two people being knocked over — and a persistent social media rumour that one woman had been trampled.

For more than five hours Friday, hundreds of police officers from across the country — including from the OPP, Sûreté du Quebec, Toronto’s public order unit, and officers from Durham region —  moved intermittently from the eastern edges of the core, pressing protesters out of the ByWard Market, off Sussex Street