Police developed an operational plan that they began to implement on the Saturday, which was around the 13th. They moved very systematically with their public order units and all of the equipment and the resources that they needed.
They were able to move some folks on that particular day. As it started getting darker—maybe two or three o'clock in the afternoon—a local pastor from a local church, who's been disagreeable from the beginning of the pandemic on any restrictions, vaccines or anything like that, put a call out to the congregation. Within 90 minutes to two hours, about 600 additional people showed up. There were kids in strollers and young kids. It was almost unbelievable to watch, frankly.
Police made a very sensible decision to not continue. Imagine however many police—80 or 90 police in a line from point to point—walking up the road, moving forward every 30 or 60 seconds.
They made a decision that was appropriate, which was that they would wait for the kids to get hungry, to have to go to the bathroom or to want to go to sleep. It was February. It was cold. At some point those kids would leave and they would conduct the operation the next day.
That's what they did. They moved in on the 14th very early and moved the rest of the folks out who were still there. By that time, the kids had left.