according to the Nova Scotia RCMP.Although police did not identify the accused in a news release, a court document identified him as Jeremy MacKenzie, who was in Ottawa for the so-called truckers’ protest against COVID-19 measures.The host of an anti-authority podcast and YouTube channel, MacKenzie is a Canadian military veteran who served in Afghanistan.
The RCMP alleged in a search warrant application that he had post-traumatic stress disorder.The police investigation began on Jan.
10, after a video posted on social media showed MacKenzie briefly pointing a gun at the head of another man, the RCMP alleged in the warrant.Although MacKenzie had a valid firearms licence, the gun seen in the video appeared to have an over-capacity magazine, police said.During a Jan.
26 search at a home in Pictou, N.S., police seized “five restricted firearms including rifles and handguns, one unrestricted firearm, prohibited magazines, ammunition, body armour, a duty belt with attached holster and magazine pouches and cellular phones.” RCMP seize firearms in B.C.