{"id":4670,"date":"2020-10-18T19:13:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T23:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2020-10-18T19:13:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T23:13:51","slug":"brave-laval-cop-resigns-after-sharing-his-doubts-about-the-lockdown-then-his-business-is-firebombed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4670","title":{"rendered":"Brave Laval Cop Resigns After Sharing His Doubts About the Lockdown &#038; Then His Business is Firebombed http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4670(opens in a new tab)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"articleTitle\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brave Laval Cop Resigns After Sharing His Doubts About the Lockdown &amp; Then His Business is Firebombed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laval police officer resigns after posting the pandemic doesn&#8217;t exist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maxime Ouimet, a 12-year veteran of the force, saw his Terrebonne business firebombed hours after one of his Facebook posts.Author of the article:Paul Cherry &nbsp;\u2022&nbsp; Montreal GazettePublishing date:Oct 10, 2020 &nbsp;\u2022&nbsp; Last Updated 5 days ago &nbsp;\u2022&nbsp; 2 minute read<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.prod.postmedia.digital\/montrealgazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1013_city_ouimet-w.jpg?quality=100&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564\" alt=\"OCTOBER 10, 2020 - Maxime Ouimet, a Laval police officer who posted comments on social media claiming that the COVID-19 pandemic does not exist and called Premier Fran\u00e7ois Legault a dictator, has resigned from the police force. FACEBOOK PHOTO\"\/><figcaption>Maxime Ouimet called Premier Fran\u00e7ois Legault a dictator. Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article content<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A\n Laval police officer has resigned from the force after posting comments\n on social media denying the existence of the pandemic and calling \nPremier Fran\u00e7ois Legault a dictator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maxime Ouimet, a 12-year veteran, resigned on Friday, Laval police confirmed to the Montreal Gazette on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Laval police officer resigns after posting the pandemic doesn&#8217;t exist <\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the week, the Journal de Montr\u00e9al revealed Ouimet had been assigned to desk duty following his controversial posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n one, he wrote he would never \u201cdestroy\u201d a person\u2019s life by issuing a \nticket for not respecting public health regulations aimed at preventing \nthe spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI took him off the road in an urgent \nway,\u201d Laval police Chief Pierre Brochet told the Journal de Montr\u00e9al, \nadding Ouimet had been assigned to desk duty and was the subject of an \ninternal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among other things, Ouimet wrote he had been working \u201csince the beginning of the crisis and there is no pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advertisement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Story continues below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"6\" height=\"6\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tpc.googlesyndication.com\/simgad\/10017041772028208996?\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"406\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article content continued<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>He claimed wearing masks was pointless, and that \u201cemergency rooms are empty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\n have been a police officer for 12 years to help, serve and protect the \npeople. I will no longer be a tool of the government to satisfy and \nestablish its dictator,\u201d he posted in French on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI say no to Premier Fran\u00e7ois Legault. What you are doing is illegal and unconstitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n Facebook page \u2014 titled Policier du peuple pour le peuple (A police \nofficer of the people for the people) \u2014 includes a photo of Ouimet \nwearing his police uniform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, he wrote that his badge \u201cwill leave me tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\n can swear to you that 75 per cent of police officers in Quebec have a \nheart of gold like me. They are formidable colleagues who really put \ntheir lives and mental health in peril for citizens every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article content continued<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Hours\n after Ouimet posted that message, a business he owns in Terrebonne \u2014&nbsp; \nAcad\u00e9mie Beaut\u00e9 Maudite on Des Entreprises Blvd. \u2014 was firebombed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When\n firefighters arrived, they noticed the salon\u2019s window had been broken. \nThe building\u2019s sprinkler system had been set off and the fire was \nextinguished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one has been arrested in connection with the firebombing that took place sometime after 11 p.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ouimet\n later confirmed, on a different Facebook page, that someone had tossed a\n Molotov cocktail inside his salon. He reported his business was heavily\n damaged by water, and he expressed dismay that his 12 employees would \nbe out of work for weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ouimet did not reply to a request for an interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:pcherry@postmedia.com\">pcherry@postmedia.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brave Laval Cop Resigns After Sharing His Doubts About the Lockdown &amp; Then His Business is Firebombed Laval police officer resigns after posting the pandemic doesn&#8217;t exist Maxime Ouimet, a 12-year veteran of the force, saw his Terrebonne business firebombed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4670\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2487,2485,2484,2486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4672,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions\/4672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}