{"id":808796,"date":"2026-07-17T22:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/808796\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:40:13","slug":"convoy-organizer-pat-king-guilty-of-intimidation-appeal-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/808796\/","title":{"rendered":"Convoy organizer Pat King guilty of intimidation, Appeal Court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d organizer Pat King is guilty of intimidation and has ordered a new sentencing hearing.<\/p>\n<p>King was charged with a number of offences for his leading role in the February 2022 demonstration that gridlocked much of downtown Ottawa for more than three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>He was convicted of five counts, including mischief, counselling mischief and disobeying a court order, and given a 12-month conditional sentence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the same trial, King was acquitted on three counts of intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>The appeal court found the trial judge erred in law and convicted King of one count of intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>In their ruling, the panel of three judges wrote that the convoy was \u201ca co-ordinated, targeted attack on Ottawa residents aimed at coercing change through highly disruptive criminal conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 17, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=toronto.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d organizer Pat King is guilty of intimidation and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-808796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808796","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=808796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}