Durham Const Police. Erin Howard is charged with two counts of misconduct, two counts of defiance and two counts of breach of trust under the Police Services Act and will appear in court for the first time on May 5.
The allegations come after Durham District Police told CTV News Toronto in January that they were looking at a video on social media in which Howard expressed solidarity with a group of trucks heading to Ottawa to protest the orders. “True heroes”. ”
This protest eventually turned into a three-week siege of downtown Ottawa, which prompted the federal government to invoke the Emergency Law for the first time.
Durham District Police Officer Erin Howard appears in this static image taken from a video on social media.
“Right now, we feel we are at war and these rights and freedoms are at stake,” Howard said in the video, which was released before protesters arrived in the nation’s capital. “You are honestly real heroes, what you are doing is unbelievable.”
Const. George Tudos previously told CTV News Toronto that the Durham Regional Police Service Code of Conduct restricts the use of police property and influence to official duties only.
