Hearing of Ottawa Detective Can’t Be About ‘Theories’ Linking COVID Vaccines to Infant Deaths, Court Official Warns

Hearing officer Chris Renwick says the hearing cannot and will not be a venue for ‘opinions and theories’ linking vaccination to child deaths.
Hearing of Ottawa Detective Can’t Be About ‘Theories’ Linking COVID Vaccines to Infant Deaths, Court Official Warns
A close-up of an Ottawa Police officer’s badge in Ottawa on April 28, 2022. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
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OTTAWA—The hearing officer in the misconduct hearing of Helen Grus—an Ottawa Police Service (OPS) detective being charged with disorderly conduct for investigating the vaccination status of the mothers of deceased infants—declared that the hearing should not become focused on whether COVID-19 vaccines are related to child deaths.

“Spending this amount of time with every witness, it’s not helpful. It’s becoming almost a sidebar to this hearing,” Chris Renwick said in reaction to defence lawyer Bath-Sheba van den Berg’s cross-examination of a witness.