Canadian Police Use Force To Break Up 6-Person New Year's Eve House Party

The COVID police were out in full force New Year's Eve in Gatineau, Quebec. They were called -- by a ratting neighbor -- to a house there because a raging house party of seven people had broken out. Now video from the cops trying to yank people out of the house has gone viral. Local cops say people aren't seeing the whole incident.

Quebec is under lockdown orders, which means -- on paper -- that "visitors from another address are not permitted inside people's homes," according to CBC. One thing leads to another on NYE, and the nosey neighbor is calling the cops on his/her neighbors hosting an all-time house party.

Mathieu Tessier, who was arrested, posted video showing the cops arguing with his mother. "The police cannot do what they did to us. They treat us like animals, like criminals," Tessier told CBC.

The cops say Tessier's sister, who owns the home, was uncooperative when they showed up and escalated the situation.

According to CNN, each person in the house was fined "$1,000 Canadian dollars, plus $546 Canadian dollars in fees, for violating a public health law." The family in Gatineau weren't the only people harassed by the COVID cops. In Quebec City, police issued 52 tickets on New Year's Eve for private gatherings.

As of Sunday, Quebec has seen 8,347 deaths since the pandemic started.

Tessier said he knew there was a risk in holding the gathering but figured they would just be issued a warning. That wasn't the case at all. The $1,546 tickets were handed out across the province.