I can’t believe that it’s come to this point where people are asking me how I think it should end.” Because while I do understand it, at the end of the day, I am a 21-year-old, I am just barely an adult. “I think it’s very interesting that my opinion is asked. Li said she is also receiving a lot of messages of support from people who sympathetic to what Centretown residents are going through.Īsked how she thinks the trucker protest should be brought to an end, Li said she is surprised the situation has reached the point where her opinion on that is being sought. Glad our team and Zexi Li could help our community. When I walked those streets I couldn't imagine how anyone could live through the constant blaring. I live in Centretown but just outside the worst of the "horn zone". It’s been overwhelming and I think she felt as though it was the right thing to do.” “It takes a lot of courage, as you can imagine, for a young woman to stand up on behalf of her neighbours … It’s been stressful. “While we’ve had an outpouring of support from many in the community, across the country, both towards our law firm and our very brave client we represent, she’s had also received a lot of vile hatred both directed at her,” Johnson said. “There are so many people that live in my neighbourhood that can’t live here anymore, that have to have escape their own home, and that quite frankly is completely unacceptable.”Ĭhristine Johnson, a lawyer with Champ and Associates and co-counsel in the matter, told CTV’s Power Play that Li has suffered online abuse because of the lawsuit. “I don’t even have the worst of it,” she said. Li said she has found the noise of the convoy protesters “unbearable.” “We really did deserve some peace and we’re glad to have some, at least for the next 10 days.” “It’s a big win, but it’s also a baby step,” Li said. Anyone who violates the injunction could be found in contempt, which brings stiffer penalties than regular bylaw charges. “If that something is to be a voice and be a face-and even be even a target-for people to understand what really is going on here, I was more than willing to do so.”Īn Ontario Superior Court judge granted a 10-day injunction on Monday ordering an end to the incessant honking by truckers parked on downtown streets.
“I really, really felt that no matter what, I had to do something.” “This situation, quite frankly, really ruffled my feathers,” Zexi Li, the lead plaintiff in a proposed class-action lawsuit told CTV Morning Live on Tuesday. It was a 21-year-old resident of Centretown who had simply had enough. The five boys were now back in the care of their parents.In the end, it wasn’t the might of the city bureaucracy or law enforcement who got the constant blaring of truck horns to stop after more than week of terrorizing downtown Ottawa residents. Mr Phakphum will face human trafficking charges, police said.
He admitted he was infected with HIV and was being treated, police said. The suspect said he spent some of the money buying sex from boys. Customers paid the boys 2,000 baht a time. Identified only as "Phakphum", he was taken into custody by police led by Pol Col Jiradet Phrasawang, deputy chief of the Anti-Human Trafficking Suppression Division, on Thursday evening.įive schoolboys, all aged 14 years, were also taken into protective custody.ĭuring interrogation, Mr Phakphum allegedly admitted he had persuaded the boys to provide sex services for male customers for money. NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A gay man has been arrested at a resort in Sikhiu district for allegedly procuring five 14-year-old schoolboys to provide sex services for male customers. Phakphum, left, is questioned by police at a resort in Nakhon Ratchasima's Sikhiu district for allegedly pimping five schoolboys to male customers.