{"id":615135,"date":"2026-04-19T20:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/615135\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T20:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:36:15","slug":"mackenzie-king-bridge-re-opened-following-police-operation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/615135\/","title":{"rendered":"MacKenzie King Bridge re-opened following police operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa Police say the MacKenzie King Bridge has been re-opened following a police operation near the Rideau Centre Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Police posted a notice on X at 2:12 p.m. Sunday asking people to avoid the area around the Rideau Centre if possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no threat to public safety and all efforts are being made to safely de-escalate the situation,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>At 2:21 p.m. police said a closure of the MacKenzie King Bridge was in effect and there was a large police presence in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 3 p.m., police said the operation had been cleared. <\/p>\n<p>Officers say de-escalation of the crisis situation was effective and the situation ahs been resolved peacefully. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa Police say the MacKenzie King Bridge has been re-opened following a police operation near the Rideau Centre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-615135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}