Change my mind:
The incident, caught in its entirety on camera, played out as Menzies was trying to get a word in with Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, in town for a memorial service commemorating the fourth anniversary of Iran’s downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752.While pressing Freeland on her government’s reluctance to name Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (the group behind the PS752 attack) a terrorist organization, Menzies bumps into one of the men, who appears to be intentionally blocking his path.The man, clad unassumingly in an overcoat and tie, promptly shoves Menzies against a nearby plexiglass billboard, informing him he’s “under arrest for assault.” The camera briefly catches a smirking Freeland slinking out of the frame as the scene unfolds.When Menzies starts to protest this shoddy treatment, the second plainclothes officer, dressed in a suit, cautions him, “You’ve been told you’re under arrest.” The man later claims falsely that the reporter was “pushing everybody over.”The camera then cuts to Menzies being pushed against the plexiglass by the second man, joined by three uniformed York Regional Police officers. The force of the shove is heavy enough to knock the hat off his head. “Stop resisting!” warns one of the officers as Menzies is being restrained.After a second cut, a handcuffed Menzies is seen being escorted by two officers into a waiting police vehicle.“It is against the law in blackface’s (Justin Trudeau’s) Canada to ask insensitive questions,” Menzies remarks mid-perp walk. It was subsequently reported on Monday evening that Menzies was released from police custody without charges.This is just the latest example of the Trudeau government’s open hostility toward The Rebel and other right-leaning alternative media outlets. The Liberals have sought to impede The Rebel’s coverage of each of the past two federal election campaigns, with Justin Trudeau himself accusing the outlet of “spreading misinformation and disinformation” on COVID vaccines during the 2021 campaign. In 2022, The Rebel took the Trudeau government to court for refusing to grant it a government news licence.Menzies, one of The Rebel’s most well-known personalities, with a long history of conducting ambush-style interviews, couldn’t have been an unknown quantity to Freeland and her entourage. Moreover, he had his press credentials clearly visible on his person while attempting to interview the deputy prime minister.The incident is particularly hypocritical for the smirking Freeland, a former Financial Times and Reuters journalist, who just last year praised a free press as “inherently and necessarily uncomfortable.”The heavy-handed treatment of Menzies looks even worse when contrasted with the downright cushy treatment that anti-Israel protesters have gotten from police over the past few weeks, despite breaking a number of serious laws relating to blocking traffic, uttering threats and trespassing, among other transgressions.In one especially bizarre scene captured last week in downtown Toronto, just a 45-minute drive from Richmond Hill, a police officer (presumably moonlighting as an Uber Eats driver) hand-delivered an urn of Tim Horton’s coffee to a keffiyeh-clad protester. (A man standing next to the caffeine-starved demonstrator can be heard uttering the word “jihad”.)The juxtaposition of the two clips perfectly illustrates a clear double standard in policing that has crystallized over the past several weeks. Handcuffs for journalists; double-doubles for jihadists.
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How bad is it in Canada?
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) January 9, 2024
Rebel News reporter David Menzies (@TheMenzoid) was "arrested for assault" for asking Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland questions.
You can clearly see David did not "assault" Freeland. It's arguable that never even made physical contact.
Worse yet, Justin… pic.twitter.com/fgfyDMeiwR
Access to Information records show that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has been billing thousands of dollars for limousines and taxis in the GTA, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
(Sidebar: she is entitled to her entitlements AND fascism.)
And this Canada:
LEAKED RCMP MESSAGES: “Time for the protesters to hear our jackboots on the ground”
— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) February 20, 2022
MORE: https://t.co/szZ41NMSrc pic.twitter.com/cdPYL0YJAL
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REMINDER: Ottawa's interim police chief Steve Bell was the one who told convoy protesters he would hunt them down after the fact and continue charging them and applying "financial sanctions." pic.twitter.com/5J6dOhg0W2
— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) October 24, 2022
(Sidebar: like these guys.)
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Facing mounting criticism for an alleged tolerance of a series of road-closing anti-Israel protests, Toronto police members have sparked renewed outrage thanks to a video showing them delivering coffee to said protestors.Posted to social media platform ‘X’ at 2 p.m. on Saturday by Toronto lawyer and online commentator Caryma Sa’d, the video shows a Toronto police constable — his face concealed behind a black neck gaiter — delivering a cardboard urn of Tim Hortons coffee and a stack of cups — to anti-Israel protestors occupying the closed Avenue Road bridge over Highway 401.The bridge, located within Toronto’s largest Jewish area, was the site of numerous demonstrations by anti-Israel activists.That prompted Toronto police to close the bridge during the protests, prompting criticism of police kowtowing to protestors over enforcing the law.
And the Liberals shudder at Canadians' distrust over their corruption.
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