Ezra Levant exposes the RCMP’s January 10th assault on journalist David Menzies—handcuffed twice, frog-marched, and slammed against a wall—while Freeland’s Liberal team falsely claimed he was aggressive, despite 15M views proving his polite questioning. Menzies’ past beatings (2021) and the RCMP’s selective reviews of misconduct, like Alexa Lavoire’s tear-gassing or Trudeau’s lapdog CBC framing, reveal systemic bias. Rebel News sues for false arrest, while Conservatives demand a blocked parliamentary inquiry, contrasting with Liberal dishonesty. Levant warns Trudeau’s media control—financial carrots and repression sticks—threatens press freedom, vowing to fight back against politicized policing. [Automatically generated summary]
I do a big post-mortem today of David Menzies' arrest.
I show you a lot of video clips from other news networks.
I show you what some senior police say.
I show you some crazy tweets from a few of the folks who say, oh, David should have been arrested.
I'll take you through it all.
I want you to see it with your eyes, though, because so much of this story is visual.
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here's today's podcast.
Tonight, the fallout of the false arrest of David Menzies continues to reverberate.
It's January 10th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Well, it's been a couple of days and 15 million people have watched the video of David Menzies politely but firmly putting two questions to the deputy prime minister of this country about a matter of public interest.
why the liberal government will not criminalize a terrorist group, the Islamic Republican Guard Corps, and the false arrests and the lies about it perpetrated by the RCMB and the York Regional Police.
15 million people.
I've watched it, I guess, four times, so slightly less than 15 million individual people.
I've rewatched it because it's riveting.
It's very short.
It's only three minutes long, but so much happens in there.
And it's a miracle that was all caught on tape.
I'll just show it to you again, and you'll see why.
Take a look at this three-minute video.
Ms. Freeland, how come the IRDC is not a terrorist group?
Why is your government supporting Islam-on-National media?
What?
Are you doing this?
What are you doing?
You're under arrest for a sergeant, sir!
Why are you pushing me?
You're under arrest for assault.
Who are you?
Under arrest?
I don't make a problem.
What are you talking about?
Police, you're under arrest.
How am I under arrest?
You bumped into me.
You pushed into me.
I was just scrubbing with you.
I've got my credentials here and you just bumped into me.
So police.
You're under arrest.
What is your name in your badge?
What is your name in your badge?
You've been told you're under arrest.
Why am I under arrest?
He brought me.
I was just scrumming Christia Freeland.
I'm a police officer.
You're under arrest.
What is your name in your badge?
How is that possible?
Okay, because you assaulted me three years ago when Blackface contracted.
I was very aggressive over the traffic.
You mean I was asking questions aggressively?
No, your actions were almost pushing everybody over.
Lincoln, you got this on video, right?
He's saying I'm pushing people over.
That's an absolute falsehood.
So now it appeared that way.
That's what you're saying, officer?
That's the first thing I've been doing.
I was pushing people.
I didn't touch a single person.
That was a little bit aggressive for what was happening.
You're under arrest.
Please take the microphone out of my face.
Well, I'd like an ongoing record of this.
Can I have the microphone?
Don't resist.
Can you give me resistance?
I'm not resisting.
Take your hand.
I'm just doing my mom resisting.
You don't need to resist.
I don't have to resist.
You don't have to say anything.
I have nothing to hide, officer.
Welcome to Blackfaces Canada.
This is what they do to journalists.
Was merely scrumming Minister Freeland and a RCMP officer blocked me.
And evidently, this is now a trumped up charge of assault, folks.
I didn't come here to cause any trouble.
I came here to do my job.
And now I'm handcuffed.
This is your Canada now, folks.
You know, this is the Gestapo taking Blackface's orders.
Outrageous.
And meanwhile, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is not a terrorist organization.
It's not a terrorist organization.
And these liberals have the audacity to show up at a vigil for a plane in which almost 200 people were killed.
57 Canadians, one unborn child, by the way.
And look at this.
They don't want, it is against the law in Blackfaces Canada to ask insensitive questions, impolite questions.
So a Canadian government that props up an Islamo fascist regime, that's okay.
But if you ask questions about that, that's not okay.
This is an absolute outrage.
I didn't come here to cause trouble, folks.
I just came here to ask questions about the day they're conducting.
That's my cameraman, sir.
He's not doing anything.
No, I just want to provide some space so that everybody's safe here, okay?
That is riveting because of the arrest.
It's not often that you see someone arrested for doing journalism.
But I think the reason it really went viral is because of the lying by the police, the gaslighting, they say, where we all saw with our own eyes that David Menzies pushed no one.
We saw that one of the RCMP officers actually moved behind David and gently made him like, but it got himself in the way.
So David and he made contact.
And then the insane reaction by that cop to accuse him of assaulting an officer and the other cop coming in and lying.
And the fact that they lied so naturally and smoothly, like it's second nature to them, like they've done it a hundred times before.
That's why that was so riveting, I think.
Of course, arresting a reporter is shocking news anytime.
But the fact that the police were so abusive and didn't care who knew, I think they do care who knew.
They just weren't really thinking through the fact that it was all being reported.
There were other details in there.
Like, why did they handcuff David?
You don't have to handcuff someone to arrest them.
Why did they handcuff him twice, actually?
Once with his hands behind his back and then once with his hands in front of him.
Did they think he was going to do what?
Fight six cops?
He didn't show a single aggressive tendency.
They were the aggressive ones.
They were the ones who assaulted him.
Why did they handcuff him?
Why did they smash his face up against the wall?
I hate that.
Why did they frog march him with a cop on either side of him to the police car?
Why?
And by the way, given that those were bodyguards for Christia Freeland, why weren't they guarding her body?
I think maybe that was part of it, is that Christia Freeland came walking up with some assistant and David Menzies did some journalism.
And these cops realized, yikes, we've been smoking or looking at our phones or something.
We haven't been doing our duty.
And they sort of ran in and overcommoncy.
And I don't know why they did what they did.
But they didn't do it very well, did they?
They did it more in the manner of a police state.
And why didn't that one bald cop, the one who was so abusive, why didn't he identify himself when asked repeatedly?
He was undercover, I suppose.
He was plain clothes.
He wasn't dressed in a police uniform.
So why didn't he identify himself after repeated questions?
I don't know.
Those are things that maybe we'll find out.
This isn't the first time that the RCMP have illegally roughed up David Menzies for no reason.
And the same RCMP bodyguard outfit.
Here, take a look at this from a couple of years ago when Justin Trudeau went to a Christmas party during the lockdowns.
And David Menzies went to ask one simple question.
Why are you having a fundraising Christmas party when the rest of us are banned from getting together?
David was jumped by the RCMP bodyguards of Trudeau, beat up, dumped on the sidewalk.
No charges at all.
I want to show you how awful that was.
Take a look.
What are you doing?
Hey, I can.
Hey, this is assault.
I'm on a side.
What is this?
I'm on a sidewalk.
What is this?
You cannot touch me.
Not rush me or hey.
Are you kidding?
Are you kidding?
I told you.
What is this?
You can't.
Am I under arrest?
Because otherwise you have no right!
Get off of me!
Guys, relax!
I don't know if they knew they were being filmed there, also.
They obviously don't care.
We're suing them for that as well.
I see that the RCMP says they are reviewing the conduct from two days ago.
We know how that always ends with an exoneration.
I can't even think of an RCMP self-investigation that hasn't exonerated themselves.
It's interesting that they're reviewing their conduct in this matter, where David wasn't badly hurt.
He was embarrassed and he was illegally arrested and imprisoned, but he wasn't beat up.
They're not reviewing the matter two years ago that I just showed you.
The RCMP also reviewed their own shooting of Alexa Lavoire.
Remember when they fired a tear gas gun at her?
Remember this?
Yeah, the RCMP reviewed that and said, oh, we're fine.
Yeah, no problem.
I've checked a couple of times.
I'm going to stop checking now, but there's not a peep on any of this from the Canadian Association of Journalists, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.
None of it.
And by the way, not a peep from Christia Freeland.
Certainly not in the moment.
I've seen online some people say, oh, she must have been terrified by David.
Well, she certainly didn't seem terrified.
She didn't say a word to him.
She didn't hide.
She didn't call for help.
In fact, as David was beat up, Christia Freeland smirked in her smirky way and kept on walking.
The police were doing this as her agents on her behalf to protect her.
Why didn't she stop in the moment?
Maybe it happened too quickly.
But it's been two days now.
Why hasn't she said a word?
Does she agree with what they did to David?
Does she think it's fine?
The police themselves no longer think it's fine.
They dropped any charges against David.
David says that they told him we're not pressing charges, but that's not really how it works in Canada.
You don't need the victim of a crime to press charges, especially when there's so many witnesses to what happened.
The reason they're not proceeding against David is because nothing happened, not because that victim, that bald cop, who wasn't assaulted at all.
all saw it.
It's interesting.
I've watched a lot of media coverage.
It's the first time that regime media have contacted me at Rebel News in years.
It's such a huge story.
Like I say, 15 million views on Twitter alone.
I guess they decided they wanted some of those clicks.
I want to show you a few different reports.
This first one is from CTV that was actually not bad.
And my favorite part of it was they talked to two retired cops, one of them very senior, a retired Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner.
Listen to what those two cops have to say in the context of this larger report.
Take a look.
In a statement, Rebel News says, we have retained legal counsel and expect to sue the RCMP, York Regional Police, and Freeland as soon as this week for false arrest, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, and assault.
The Deputy Prime Minister's office says they won't comment on matters of Freeland's security, while the RCMP says it's looking into the incident and the actions of all parties.
He was certainly crowding the minister, but certainly not in any way threatening her.
And I just thought it was totally unnecessary by the police officer to actually stop and arrest him.
Menzies has been arrested at least four times while working for Rebel News, which describes itself as a generally conservative media outlet.
In 2019, he was forcibly removed from an Andrew Scheer campaign event.
Then again, in 2021, following an encounter with conservative MP Melissa Lanceman.
You're a thug.
You're a thug.
What are your names?
And in December 2021, there was this incident involving members of the prime minister's RCMP detail.
Certainly all the RCMP officers know who Mr. Menzies is as well.
So this didn't come as a surprise to anybody.
So the debate will be, was it an assault?
When the arrest was effected, was it too aggressive?
Those cops were excellent.
They said, well, maybe he was crowding her.
I don't know how one person crowds two people on a sidewalk, but he was walking with the microphone.
But he said, yeah, both cops said this absolutely was not normal conduct by the RCMP.
Now, the CBC wouldn't bother interviewing senior cops or retired cops or ex-cops because they want to put everything in woke context.
And the thing about 75-year-old retired OPP commissioners is they're not going to give you a woke answer.
Let me look at, let me show you the CBC report.
They really are atrocious over there.
They call David a Rebel News personality.
Now, it's true, David has a big personality, but they just use that word because they absolutely refuse to call him a journalist or a reporter.
Weird Journalist Ambush00:15:08
Some weird point of pride.
Rebel News personality, David Menzies, was arrested Monday for allegedly assaulting a police officer while trying to ask Finance Minister Christia Freeland questions about the government's decision to leave the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps off the designated terrorist entity list.
That's actually not a bad report other than they just will not call him a reporter.
But why?
As I think I've told you before, David Menzies is actually the only reporter in our entire company who did go to journalism school.
That was years ago before they became woke ideological factories.
He has a journalism degree.
He's a member of the Independent Press Gallery.
He's been writing and doing journalism for, I don't know, close to 40 years, I would think.
He practices every day as a full-time professional journalist.
Why would they not call him a journalist?
And do they think it's theirs to give or not?
It's such forced language.
I want to show you this video where you can see it's very interesting.
This next video I'm going to show you is from CBC.
The first part of it is some reporter who is reading from a teleprompter script, and the language is just so forced.
They actually say a man who identified himself as a journalist.
Are you saying he was an imposter?
They never say, by the way, they never say a man who identifies himself as a woman.
And there are plenty of those these days.
Those are, they call them, they'll call them transgender women or they just call them women.
They'll have pictures of blokes, full-out men, sometimes with beards or whatever, and they'll say she or her or women.
They'll go through that deception.
Those aren't imposters, but they'll call David a man who identified himself as a journalist.
They're so weird, the CBC.
They won't call Hamas terrorists terrorists, even though it is a legal fact.
They're on the terrorist list.
They won't call transgender women men, and they won't allow David Menzies, a professional journalist, to call himself a journalist.
Who wrote that script?
It's so forced.
But it's different from the journalists they interview, Kate McKenna, who's not on a script.
Here, take a look at this video for a couple minutes.
The RCMP is facing criticism for arresting a man who identified himself as a journalist.
David Menzies works for Rebel News.
He tried to ask the Deputy Prime Minister some questions yesterday in Richmond Hill, Ontario, when the arrest happened.
The CBC's Kate McKenna is following the story in Ottawa, and she joins us now live.
So, Kate, what can you tell us about this incident?
So, just to kind of reiterate a little bit of what we saw in that video, we saw that Menzies tried to ask a question to Chris Jeffreeland when he's blocked by the RCMP's security detail and then told that he's under arrest.
And he responds by saying, well, he was just asking questions and moves to show his credentials to the RCMP detail.
That video was released by Rebel News.
It's not the entire video.
The full version of the video goes on to show Mr. Menzies being arrested by York Regional Police.
We did reach out to that police service that said that he was later released for having not posed a credible threat to the public and he was released without conditions.
Now, David Menzies is a reporter for Rebel News, which is a media organization that prides itself on its own website of being outside of mainstream media.
It presents itself as having a conservative worldview.
But this move from the RCMP detail is receiving quite a bit of criticism online and from some prominent people for how Mr. Menzies was treated by police.
It was also criticized by the leader of the Conservative Party, Pierre Polyev, who posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, saying this is the state of freedom of the press in Canada in 2024.
Now, it is worth noting that this is not the first time Menzies has been arrested in trying to speak to politicians.
In fact, even prior today, there was already a website that was set up intended to fundraise on behalf of Menzies when he is arrested.
And, you know, it's also happened when he's talked to conservative politicians.
For instance, he was forcibly removed from an Andrew Scheer event as well as a Melissa Lanceman event in 2021.
But Ezra Levant, the publisher of the website, is saying that they are considering legal action and they're also fundraising for that legal action on a website that's been set up following or not following, but being promoted as part of this arrest that happened yesterday.
The RCMP has not responded to requests for comment.
Hey, by the way, did you catch her?
She accidentally said David Menzies is a reporter for Rebel News.
Oops.
You know why?
Because he actually is.
And it takes a lot of weird mental effort to fake it and say he's a personality who identifies as a journalist.
I mean, he does have a personality other than unlike a lot of those government drones.
Now, the CBC did not make the mistake, again, of calling him a reporter.
And they certainly didn't make the mistake of calling on retired senior policemen to talk about the arrest.
They brought on the worst people in the country, political pundits and hacks and journalists.
Here's some whackadoodle from Montreal who says, no, no, no, what happened here was a gender thing.
You see, you have to look at it through a feminist lens because David Menzies is a man.
Hey, how dare you assume his gender, Missy?
Because David Menzies is a man and Freeland is a woman.
How dare you assume her gender?
It must mean harassment or something?
I think there are so many different things that need to be taken into consideration.
It's true that what we see in the video, he's walking toward her.
He did arrive very fast in a way that can make a person feel jumpy.
And that's probably part of what happened.
And if you make a person feel jumpy and they see you there with rebel news, they don't consider you a real journalist.
They might escalate more than if they saw a CBC mic.
That might have been part of the very instant, because it happens in a snap, a couple of seconds of what happened.
There is a way for security to make sure that a person leaves an elected official personal space while they're asking questions without arresting them.
And that's not what ensued.
And so that's also an issue.
There's a third issue that is not necessarily directly related to the video that I just want to put out there: is that there are a lot of women in politics who are being arrested, sorry, harassed physically by citizens who follow them everywhere.
And there is a question that needs to be asked in terms of if that citizen decides to become a journalist, then is the harassment something that becomes a professional thing that we cannot say anything about.
And so there are gender dynamics here.
There's police overstepping.
There's the issue of the reputation of rebel news and that specific person's reputation.
And then there's the issue of: is there a way to make sure that when journalists ask questions to a politician, they leave them personal space without arresting the journalist who's being maybe a little bit too coming too close too fast?
And so there's all of those things that could have been unfolded that could have unfolded differently for sure.
Yeah, I'll remember when I'll remember to use that line when they go after, I don't know, Danielle Smith or Michelle Eswery.
How dare you?
You're just doing that because she's a woman.
The next person they talk to is some NDP thug.
And I call him a thug because he says that David Menzies deserved what he got because he was being deliberately confrontational with security.
David wasn't even interacting with security.
He didn't even know they were there until they ran up behind him and bumped into him.
Take a look at this.
Listen, I mean, it's, I don't want to do a sports instant replay thing here on the video, but you wonder sometimes if the individual in question is deliberately being confrontational with security detail in a way, to your point, you know, even alluding to yourself, David, you would not be.
You know, it's clear when it's an accident versus someone who's trying to be confrontational for the purpose of the format that these individuals are engaged in and the subsequent fundraising campaigns and social media attention that it garners among a particular audience.
And it's perhaps not to be ignored.
And we've mentioned it a few times that the conservative deputy leader now, of all people, then candidate Melissa Lanceman, was also involved in a similar incident.
So when you see a pattern begin to emerge, you do start to question the way that the individual behaves.
You start to wonder what, you know, how the individual is being perceived.
I suspect that there's a conversation to be had about whether the security detail needs to be better briefed about individuals like this if they are going to be getting into these types of sort of clickbaity, if you'll forgive the expression, confrontations with politicians.
But yeah, it's a very fine line, but this is an unfortunate result, I think, of the climate that we're in.
That's very different than being in the House of Commons with accredited journalists scrumming a former MP to stick with the example that you drew out just a moment ago.
Yeah, what a lying kook.
15 million people saw the truth.
David wasn't being confrontational with security at all.
He didn't even know security was there until they grabbed him and said, you're under arrest for assaulting us.
So what are we going to do about all this?
Well, we're going to sue them.
Of course we are.
We have to because we have to stand by our reporters.
We have to show David Menzies that we support him.
We have to send the CBC, sorry, not the CBC, the RCMP and other police a message that they can't do this anymore.
And we need them to hear it from a judge because they really don't care if David says so.
They beat him up several times.
You know, the reaction online has been overwhelmingly supportive, I should say.
I showed you some of the CBC's worst reporting because I want you to know how awful those government journalists are.
There's been some whining about rebel news.
Some people say, well, I don't like rebel news, but this is wrong.
Okay, fine.
But there's been some really weird teen police tweets.
Like here's one from Dwayne Bratt, who's a professor in Calgary.
Menzies conducts ambush interviews.
Rebel News are activists, not journalists.
And no surprise that they are fundraising off of it.
But, and this is really important, guys, Menzies should never have been arrested and roughed up by the police.
Hey, thanks for that.
But by the way, what does an ambush mean?
I mean, did he jump out of the bushes or something?
He was standing on a public sidewalk outside an event, a public event, and a public person came up and he publicly identified himself with his microphone flash, with his credentials.
I mean, by ambush, do you mean that he simply didn't send in the question in advance?
An ambush.
And the question surely was not an ambush.
It absolutely had to do with the event there.
And are we activists?
Well, I suppose we are activists, but certainly no more than the CBC.
Are we fundraisers?
Well, we are fundraising because we need to hire a lawyer to fight back.
We don't work for the government like Dwayne Bratt does.
You know, Keenan Bexti, our alumnus, had an interesting point that we have to do journalism on the street because we are banned by the government from official press conferences.
Here's what Keenan wrote.
He said, want to know the reason David Menzies was asking freelancers on a sidewalk in the way that he was?
You know, those tactics you find offensive?
It is because independent journalists are barred from the parliamentary press gallery by the CBC, CTB, Global News, Radio Canada Media Cartel.
He's exactly right.
I would love to go to press conferences, actually put a question to Christia Freeland, but they would have the RCMP frog march us off of Parliament Hill.
They have.
Here's another weird one.
And I'm just showing you these because there's so few of them.
I want to mention them.
Miro Cernatic, who used to be a reporter with the Globe and Mail, surprised me by saying, I agree with the police response.
You don't get to do this with a cabinet minister, man or woman.
What?
To do what?
To ask questions?
You don't get to ask questions of cabinet ministers?
This is from a former reporter.
Would he say that about Doug Ford or Stephen Harper or any conservative?
Of course not.
I don't know.
Maybe he's just trying to be contrarian.
Now, foreigners are not so weird.
And a lot of what I've shown you is just this Canadian cartel, this little clubby journalistic elite that hates rebel news.
And we don't like them.
We're on the cool kids team.
It's like that old movie Heathers about mean girls in school.
But foreign reporters who have no dog in this hunt, they've covered this straight on.
Roxanne Fernando did a big analysis in Australia.
And here's Russell Brand in the UK.
This guy cracks me up.
He always has ever since I saw him in the movies.
Listen to Russell Brand.
I love how he makes fun of Christia Freeland and the irony.
He calls it a sarcastic last name, Freeland.
Yeah, I think he's right.
Take a look.
And maybe the reason that Justin Trudeau is not popular is because of extraordinary moments like this.
Did you see when Rebel News tried to interview Christia Freeland?
Christia Freeland, she of the sarcastic name.
Christia Freeland is a significant political figure in Canada, deputy prime minister.
Of course, you will be familiar, I believe, with her ancestral connections to a little old party called the Nazis.
I think that's like, I mean, you know, we're still on YouTube.
I think her grandfather was in the Nazis, is that right?
And certainly in Parliament in Canada, they did applaud an actual Nazi.
Have a look at this moment where Rebel News reporter David Menzies wants to interview or at least doorstep.
Now, I myself have been on the wrong end of the media on numerous times.
The legacy media can be extremely disruptive and intrusive.
They do not respect your personal space.
But have a look at this.
This is simply, in a sense, an attempt to interview Christia Freeland, who you would imagine might be, from her name, an elfine utopian governing one of the principalities or shires in a Tolkien-esque wonderland, but seems in reality to be somewhat affiliated with Nazism.
Here's, look at her acolytes preventing her from being confronted with a microphone.
Why is your government supporting Islamo-Nationality?
Excuse Me, Arrest?00:02:27
What?
You've been missed, dude.
What do you mean?
Rest for a start?
Why are you pushing me?
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You're under ramp on assault.
Who are you?
Much more aggressive, isn't it, than what he did?
He was sort of like rather meekly and in an adorable fedora trying to sort of use a, excuse me, why exactly?
I can't even remember what his question was, but he was slammed.
I'm going to go back a little bit and have a look at that because look at the like the moment where he's trying to interview an elected official paid for by taxpayer money.
That doesn't look that confronting.
Let's have a look.
Oh, excuse me.
Why is your government supporting Islam Onabsky?
He's been mixed for you.
Are you supposed to be?
You're under arrest for assault.
Who are you?
Police.
So that person there, presumably is a police officer, has arrested him for assault.
Did he get arrested for assault?
That was pretty heavy, wasn't it?
Night Prowler 636, the Nazis were lefty.
Yeah, socialists, not right-wing.
Yes, National Socialism.
Okay, but I think we can agree amongst ourselves that the Nazis were a bad force in global politics due to, among other things, that hideous genocide.
Now, let's just see how the rest of this tape plays out.
Police, you're under arrest.
How am I under arrest?
You voted into me.
You pushed into me.
You want, I was just...
Oh, look, that's how...
That's just from...
I've never seen that before.
You pushed into me, so he knows already that he's gone too far, doesn't he?
You pushed into me, sir, which, as you know, is assault.
I think they shouldn't be able to hide behind legal language.
I think they should have...
You are under arrest for pushing into me, sir.
If they had to use the sort of playground discourse that they use when they're beginning to retract their initial statement and apologize, yeah, he's already starting to retract it.
Oh, it looks like they've got a legal fight there.
Stand with David.
God bless him.
Stand with David, and he's an adorable fedora.
I've got my credentials here, and you just bumped into me.
So, police, you're under a regular name in your bag.
Hey, he's all adrenalized anyway.
Police, you're under arrest for pushing me.
Sir, earlier when we paid scissor, paper, stones, those scissors on your fingers, although they were actually your scissors, very much hurt the paper.
I mean, that's the most juvenile accusation I've encountered.
Page Give Pounce00:06:42
Well, like I say, the CBC was the worst.
And they had that first report where they mistakenly called David Minsky's reporter, but they had their punish panel.
And I showed you the MDP clip from already.
Here's a liberal hack who was running defense for the police as well.
It's a very short clip.
Take a look.
You know, it was, as a layperson, it seems not something that one would think someone would get arrested for, I'll say.
But we also don't have the full context.
And I guess that will come out as the RCMP review it.
We don't have all the context.
We absolutely do have all the context.
He asked two questions and was arrested and accused of assault.
That's all there is.
There was nothing before.
And after he was just put in a police car.
What an excusologist.
Remember when the liberals used to care about liberal values?
I do.
It's a long time ago, though.
Here's a clip from the host of the CBC who said, no, no, no, this isn't about liberals.
It's about conservatives pouncing.
It's the conservatives' fault.
They jumped on this.
Yeah, Kate, just to stick with you.
The conservatives have jumped on this, right?
Because everything is an opportunity to play wedge politics now.
Yeah, that was the guy.
I don't know if you remember that reporter.
He was the CBC reporter who during the election campaign, Justin Trudeau bought him some poutine, gave it to him, and basically said out loud, this is to bribe the press.
And that idiot took it and started eating it.
Instead of realizing that was Trudeau being condescending and abusive and dominant and criticizing and rubbing his face in it, he said, no, yeah, I'm absolutely happy to be your lapdog.
What a disgrace.
Remember this?
It's for you, David.
It's for you.
No, Hey, Liberal Party always supports the CBC.
Well, those were some of the bad reactions, but there was a good reaction too.
The Conservative Party seems to have woken up.
Pierre Polyev has done two tweets about the subject, and then the Conservative Party did another tweet talking about Freedom Speech and actually quoted us.
And then, of course, they did a fundraiser about it, which I suppose shows that they think it's a winner with the base.
And one of their MPs actually asked for a parliamentary inquiry into the subject that was scotched by the NDP and the Blockhead McCoy, of course.
The Liberal Party must have noticed that 15 million people saw this video because they did a counter-attack video.
Let me show you to it.
I think it's pretty weak.
You are attacking our newspaper.
Not you organization.
Can you give us a chance?
Your organization.
You are attacking our news organization.
Your organization.
Can you give us a chance to ask?
We have basically a liberal heckler who snuck in here today.
These newspapers and the media are totally dishonest people, folks.
Remember that.
Contrary to the false and dishonest reporting of the liberal media.
Yeah, I think the media is the opposition party in many ways.
I think CP should stop acting as the communications arm of the PMO.
You know, when I look at the media, how one-sided it is, how biased it is.
Well, first of all, your question was typical of CBC, biased again.
Yeah, it is true that Pierre Polyev pokes back at journalists sometimes.
And if you think that's bad, you remember this one where he was actually eating an apple.
And I love how journalists called this intellectual bullying.
Take a look.
On the topic, I mean, in terms of your sort of strategy currently, you're obviously taking the populist pathway.
What does that mean?
Well, appealing to people's more emotional levels, I would guess.
I mean, certainly you tap very strong ideological language quite frequently.
Like what?
Left-wing, you know, this and that, right-wing.
I mean, that type of ideological stuff.
I never really talk about left or right.
I don't really believe in that.
Okay.
A lot of people would say that you're simply taking a page out of the Donald Trump.
Right.
which people would say that well I'm sure a great many Canadians but like who I don't know who, but.
Well, you're the one who asked the question, so you must know somebody.
Okay.
I'm sure there's some out there, but anyways, the point of this question is, I mean, why should Canadians trust you with their vote, given, you know, not just the sort of ideological inclination in terms of taking the page of Donald Trump's book, but thinking about what page?
What page?
Can you give me a page?
Give me the page.
Give me the page.
You keep saying that.
In terms of turning things quite dramatically in terms of Trudeau and the left wing and all of this, I mean, you make quite a, you know, it's quite a play that you make on it.
So I'm sure.
I'm not sure.
I don't know what your question is.
Then forget that.
Why should Canadians trust you with their vote?
Common sense.
Common sense for a change.
We're going to make common sense common in this country.
We don't have any common sense in the current government.
You know, the guy prints $600 billion and grows our money supply by 32% in three years.
That's growing the money eight times faster than the economy.
No wonder we have the worst inflation in four decades.
I'm going to cap spending, cut waste, so that we can balance the budget and bring down inflation and interest rates.
You'll want to be able to pay your mortgage again.
You want to be able to afford rent?
Then you have to vote for Pierre Polyev because I'm the only one with a common sense plan that will bring back the buying power of your paycheck.
Yeah, the difference between intellectual bullying and actual bullying is the difference between Pierre Polyev talking back to reporters and the Liberal Party throwing our reporters in the back of a police car with handcuffs.
But yeah, the Liberals are trying to have some sort of moral equivalency there.
By the way, I should tell you, we're going to win our lawsuit here.
We have some lawsuits that we know are long shots before we go fight them.
We fight them because we know we have to.
If we don't fight them, no one else will.
I suppose this is a we must fight battle, but I think it's also a really winnable battle, too.
Just like we won with the Election Debates Commission that banned us twice from attending.
Those were sort of long shots, I should say, but in retrospect, they look great and they look like, of course, we should have been allowed in.
This one is even clearer.
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I spoke last night with a very senior criminal lawyer in this country.
You would recognize his name if I said it to you.
And he said, absolutely.
In fact, you saw those police on the CTV interview saying it was police misconduct.
The fact that the police dropped all the charges and are reviewing their own officer shows that you know they know they did something wrong.
We're going to win this one, and we're going to win it for David.
But more importantly, we're going to win it to set a precedent that the politicization of Canadian police must stop.
I think that's another reason this video went so viral.
Now, obviously, with 15 million views, it's being watched by more than just Canadians.
But in Canada, we've been through three months of police not doing their jobs, three months of two-tiered policing, three months of police helping pro-Hamas protesters, bringing coffee to masked thugs intimidating Jewish neighborhoods.
That's what happened in Toronto.
Three months of police standing by as in Toronto while a masked Hamas thug threatened to put you six feet under.
Remember that clip?
Take a look.
I'm telling you, because if he touches my camera, you'll come near me now, put your leg down on the floor.
I'll lay you asleep.
I'll put you six feet deep.
I'll put you six feet deep.
Yeah, so we've had three months of watching the police do not a bloody thing to actually do their jobs.
And then the instant a reporter asks a prickly question of a liberal, he gets handcuffed and frog marched off to a car.
I think people are getting a little sick of two-tiered policing.
We're going to win for that and so many other reasons.
If you want to help us, go to standwithdavid.com.
Hey, welcome back.
Your letters to me.
Smoking 7 says the RSMP officer touches the reporter and immediately calls out assault.
He needs to be fired.
This is Canada, not Iran.
Yeah, I don't know if that in itself is a fireable offense, but it certainly should be a disciplinary offense.
And what scares me, what scared me most about the thing, I'll tell you honestly, is how easily and naturally and incredibly these cops immediately lied and lied together.
It's only because we have the video that we can prove that they're liars, but they immediately, oh, you did it.
Oh, you were very aggressive.
Oh, you were bullying.
Oh, you were pushing people.
They just both immediately snapped into lying mode and they were lying with a straight face.
They're very accomplished liars.
But that, I mean, that blew me away.
The fact that they were mean to David is not shocking to me.
It's not good, but it's not shocking.
The fact that they arrested him is not good, but it's not shocking.
But I was truly shocked by how calmly they lied.
I think they need to be investigated.
Have they lied before?
Have they lied 100 times before?
Have they lied under oath?
And if the answer is yes to those questions, maybe they should be fired.
Habib M19 says David is a legend still reporting while in handcuffs, being escorted by police, a legend.
That was one of my favorite parts of this is he wouldn't stop.
He wouldn't stop working.
He wouldn't stop asking questions.
That one cop had to say, you're under arrest now.
Stop interviewing me.
And as he was frog marched to the police car and Lincoln Jay, our cameraman, was walking backwards, David was giving the speech.
It was, I mean, David's unstoppable.
It was incredible.
Harsh Realist UK says massive misstep by the Canadian authorities.
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Support for rebel news will grow exponentially.
Well, I think the reason they're targeting rebel news is because we're critics and we're not controlled by them and we're independent.
And the fact that they come for us and attack us, I think it confirms in people's minds that we're over the target.
I mean, no one shoots at a dead duck, right?
I think the fact that they're so obsessed with rebel news, I mean, I hate the fact that they physically abuse us, and I hate the fact that they have beat up David twice now.
This last time, not so badly, but the time I showed you from two years ago was terrible.
I think we have to fight back, and I hope our support does grow.
Justin Trudeau uses a carrot and a stick to control the media.
The carrot, hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies and grants, is enough to buy off about 99% of the media.
But for the 1% that don't take the bribe, he uses the stick.