OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – A member of the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) pleaded guilty to one count of discreditable conduct for giving money to the trucker Freedom Convoy despite her donation taking place before police took action to clear out protesters.
Constable Kristina Neilson has been with the OPS since 2012 and has no prior record of misconduct. She made the guilty plea under Canada’s Police Services Act last Thursday.
The statement of facts shows Neilson first gave $55 to the Freedom Convoy’s GoFundMe page on January 23, only two days after vehicles had shown up in Ottawa to protest COVID mandates.
She later gave money to the Freedom Convoy’s GiveSendGo on February 5.
The GiveSendGo was started when the Freedom Convoy’s GoFundMe was shut down after raising more than $10 million in only a few weeks.
Neilson last month had been charged by the OPS for discreditable conduct for her Freedom Convoy donation. The OPS had claimed Neilson’s actions were done “in a disorderly manner.”
The OPS said Neilson knew she was supporting what the force had called an “illegal occupation.”
However, on February 5, when Neilson made her donation to the Freedom Convoy via GiveSendGo, there had yet to be any police action taken against the Freedom Convoy.
Neilson first appeared before a disciplinary hearing on September 15 to face charges of one count of discreditable conduct.
The Freedom Convoy took to the streets of Ottawa to demand an end to all COVID mandates for three weeks in February. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on February 14 enacted the Emergencies Act (EA) to shut down the Freedom Convoy.
While Trudeau revoked the EA on February 23, many who supported the Freedom Convoy were targeted by the federal government and had their bank accounts frozen without a court order.
Recently, news came to light that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) admitted it emailed a blacklist of so-called Freedom Convoy sympathizers to financial lobbyist groups.
In March, OPS interim chief Steve Bell said his department would investigate any member of the force who donated to the Freedom Convoy.
Bell recently acknowledged his department did not request that Trudeau invoke EA to take down the Freedom Convoy.
Also, recent testimony from the former chief of police Peter Sloly has shown that Freedom Convoy protesters were permitted by the cops to park their vehicles outside Canada’s Parliament.
Thousands of Canadians from all walks of life, including many politicians, donated to the Freedom Convoy.
However, many were then targeted by the Trudeau government for financially supporting the convoy.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, who has ties to the globalist World Economic Forum (WEF), used the EA to shut down the Freedom Convoy’s GoFundMe page, in addition to monitoring “all forms of transactions, including digital assets such as cryptocurrencies.”
The EA was also used to freeze hundreds of bank accounts, some of those belonging to people who were not actively involved in the protests. It was the task of Canada’s national police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), to provide banks the lists of accounts that should be frozen. However, banks froze many accounts at their own discretion.
Trudeau will soon testify before Canada’s Public Order Emergency Commission to explain why he and his government chose to use the Emergencies Act to shut down the Freedom Convoy in February.
The Commission hearings are set to begin on October 13 and will be open to the public via Livestream.