Former police officer Brian Denison to officers just following orders: Check your moral compass

Brian Denison, who has been a police officer for 24 years until December of 2021, was in Ottawa all of February 18th. He saw with his own eyes the horrific police brutality against citizens who have been and are protesting lawfully. This heartfelt message was recorded on the evening of February 18th.

TRANSCRIPT

Good evening everyone. I've taken some time to try to sort through my thoughts from what I saw today. I just wanted to put this out to you, because I don't know how else to express to you what I'm thinking. Especially in writing, it's very difficult.

What I observed today was the breaking of a country. Canada truly has fallen. We have a fascist dictator/leader, who has given powers out to squash people who do not agree with him and his government. The people doing bidding are the very people that I call brothers and sisters. I did your job up until last December, on the street.

The police officers that took part today from all police services, need to check your moral compass. I know your conscience inside of you was saying, 'This is wrong. I should not be doing this.' You need to step off the line, all of you. You need to continue to be that person that stands up and protects the Canadian citizens. Those protesters in Ottawa were peaceful. They were loving. They were those folks that are your neighbors.

You wanna know why I know that? I was there. I WAS a peaceful protester. I spoke on that stage. I walked around for hours, both during the day and at night. What Trudeau has said and the lying main stream media, is ALL untrue. You are acting on lies. Your leadership is acting on lies. They are not upholding their oath to the people of Canada.

I'm appealing to you as a police officer to not partake in what you know is wrong and unlawful. You are hurting other Canadians. Your neighbors, the same people that live in your communities. The same people that you see at hockey games when you take your children, at the gymnastics club when your little girl is doing gymnastics. The people you see at a coffee shop when you're out of uniform or in uniform.

Those are the people that you perpetrated that horrific action upon today. I saw horses trampling on people that were standing there. I saw people kneed in the ribs and kicked, butt stroked, with your tear gas gun. I saw all that.

And from one cop to another, what you did was wrong. If you are one of those police officers, you should not be. And for all those other police officers standing around: it's time to step off that line, it's time to stand up for who you are. A law-abiding person. Someone who upholds the law, someone who protects those that need protecting and allows those who want to protest lawfully, which they were and continue to, to be able to protest.

You are supposed to facilitate that, but your leaders and the leader of this country, have made you into a strong arm of the government. This country has a major wound because of these actions today. One that I don't know will heal. I was proud to be a police officer for 24 years. Today, my badge is tarnished, because of the actions of some of you.

The rest of you need to really recalibrate and find out who you really are, because if that's who you really are, I don't want you to be my police officer in my community. I'm appealing to you guys, the ones in Ottawa especially, from all over, all services. It's not just Ottawa police service, comes even from Calgary where I served for 24 years.

Start looking at what you guys have done today and see if you would be proud to go home and tell your children what you did today. That this was a defining factor in your career, that you made a difference and that your wife or your significant other or husband, or mother and father, would be proud of you, for fulfilling your duty today.

If you can't answer that question, then you need to stop doing it. You need to tell your leaders, 'No, I won't do this.' If it costs you your job, so be it. But here's the thing: it might cost you your job anyway. From the actions I saw: HORRIFIC!

Please, do not continue with what I saw today. I am begging you as a human being to human being, let alone cop to cop: do NOT continue with what I saw today. Police men need to be different. You are held to a higher standard.

You are not just to do the bidding of an unlawful government or a government who doesn't like people protesting what they have to say. Stand up, step off that line, do not do anything that you would not be proud of to tell others in your life that you did. Be that person that swore the oath to uphold the law and protect Canadians.

REFERENCES

Tweet by Ottawa Police about bicycle being thrown:
https://twitter.com/OttawaPolice/status/1494806139971813376

MORE BY BRIAN DENISON

Resist unlawful orders - Former police officer Brian Denison speaks to Ottawa officers
https://rumble.com/vuh5vp-resist-unlawful-orders-former-police-officer-brian-denison-speaks-to-ottawa.html

SOURCE: https://youtu.be/XLLij99q9xU