Ezra Levant and Rebel News defend David Menzies’ right to report at Toronto protests under Section 2B of Canada’s Charter, after police allegedly ignored violent pro-Hamas demonstrators—including swastikas, genocide chants, and Molotov threats—while arresting journalists five times this year. Naturai Karta, a group linked to Iran, often shields protesters, Levant claims, accusing officers of acting as a "Hamas Pretorian Guard." Drea, a Vancouver-based journalist, recounts being assaulted on camera by a male protester while police stood by, yet no charges were filed. Rebel News vows legal action if rights are violated, exposing systemic bias against press freedom amid Canada’s broader free-speech tensions. [Automatically generated summary]
Really, one of the top five moments in our 10-year history.
I don't know if you remember, but David Menzies was arrested last week for trying to do journalism at a protest in North Toronto.
Arrested for causing a disturbance to the peace because he wanted to ask pro-Hamas protesters some questions.
Well, we did what we always do with Rebel News.
We sent 10 or 12, I forget the exact number of our people to accompany David and basically say to the cops, If you're going to arrest him, you better arrest all of us.
Well, what happened was a spectacular day of freedom of the speech and solidarity of Rebel News.
We defended David, we defended Rebel, but more than that, we defended freedom of speech and freedom of the press for all Canadians.
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Police Arrests and Resistance00:15:34
Tonight, last week, the police arrested David Menzies.
So this week, rebels came in force and the government blinked.
It's November 18th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
From what I can tell, there's about 30 police vehicles in this parking lot alone.
And no doubt there's more police vehicles and police themselves in staging areas nearby.
There may be a riot horse squad, although that's typically only brought out for serious threats like truckers.
But what's going on every week, there's a pro-Israel rally along the street, and you can see there's Canadian flags and Israeli flags and people honking because this is North Toronto, which is a pretty Jewish area.
And every single week for more than a year, this little rally has happened, uneventful.
But in the last few weeks, pro-Hamas street gangs who have terrorized the Jewish community for months, they've been coming here to taunt the Jews with anti-Semitic epithets, with swastikas, calling for genocide, intifadas and things like that.
And these cops have been errand boys for the Hamas side.
They've been, just like they did a few months ago when they brought Tim Horton's coffee for the gang.
Here they actually defend the Hamas side and outrageously, last Sunday they arrested my friend and colleague, Rebel News Mission Specialist David Menzies, which is the answer to the question, why am I wearing this hat?
So I'm wearing this hat.
Thank you.
And you can see we have more than a dozen people on the rebel team.
And we've invited others from around town to come here to stand up for David's freedom of the press.
Now there are pro-Israel and pro-Hamas sides to this.
Our job as rebels is to tell the other side of the story, to be reporters.
So we're not here as part of the protest pro-Hamas or pro-Canada.
We're here to do peaceful, legal, professional journalism.
And the reason we're here in great numbers, and I'm going to introduce myself to the cops in a minute, is because we are asserting our right under Section 2B of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to be on the street and do journalism.
And just because some Hamas thug says, get out, we ain't getting out.
In fact, that's when we rely on the police to protect our freedom.
We're not here to pick a fight with the Hamas thugs.
That's the job of the cops.
And the cops have not been doing a good job on that.
We're not even here to cheer for one side or the other, even though obviously you know we're pro-Canada, pro-peace, pro-Israel.
We're here to show the police and the city that we're going to do our journalism.
And if they're going to arrest David, well, they're bloody well going to have to arrest all of us.
We have an outstanding lawyer named Leora Shemesh who has been representing David and she is on standby.
I spoke with her today.
And if any cop arrests any one of us, you have her phone number in the Slack message that I sent around.
So call Leora Shemesh.
In terms of how we engage with the Hamas thugs, the police really should be sweeping any violent people off the streets, but they don't.
So my first piece of advice is don't get too close.
Stay about this far away.
David, so don't get right up in their grill, but stay about this far away.
And with your mic go like that, but keep a couple of feet of distance so there's no excuse for police to come down on you like a ton of bricks.
So we are here to do journalism, not to pick a fight.
We're here to assert our rights to do journalism.
We're not here to be part of the protest.
We're here to report on the protest.
We may be arrested.
They've arrested, David has been arrested five times this year.
And I should tell you, every single time the charges have been thrown out are dropped, which shows that it's just bullshit to sweep them off the streets.
If that happens again today, I got to tell you, Officer Lamb and Officer Kerr and the rest of you, we're going to sue every one of you for violating our charter rights.
And I am as serious as a heart attack right now.
So don't do it.
Don't arrest us.
Do your job.
Stay true to your oath.
If there's someone who's threatening us, arrest them.
Don't say the path of least resistance is to sweep David Menzies off the street.
So that's what we're here to do.
Everyone on the rebel side of things, feel free to wear a hat.
Officers, we have our press passes.
You can also tell us by our trademark Panama hats.
Afterwards, if you want one for your collection, I'm happy to give you one.
You'll have, okay, I'll give you one afterwards.
So, and I promised one to Karima's team because they're just super great.
So that's really our mission.
I find it unacceptable that foreign nationals are in our neighborhoods stirring up hatred.
But I am a free speech believer.
But that's my point, is I'm not asking for Hamas to be censored, although if they break the law with death threats, they should be arrested.
I'm asking that I have the same rights in my own city as foreign terror supporters.
I'm a Torontonian.
My family's been in Canada since 1903.
I have my civil rights.
And just because a bunch of violent thugs threaten to make a scene, the cops should not bend the knee to them.
All right, rebels, huddle up.
I want to suggest some questions because, and I'm going to say this to the cops.
We are going to go on the other side and talk to the Hamas supporters.
So you should know that we're going to do that.
We're going to stay a few feet back from Hamas.
We're not going to get right in their grill.
We're not going to touch them.
We're not going to threaten them.
But you should know that we're going to do that.
And if we're threatened, we expect you to keep the peace and stop them from harming us.
And we expect you not to touch us, not to arrest us.
By the way, don't handcuff us.
If you arrest us, we're not going to fight back.
You handcuffed him and some sort of Keystone cop clown show.
You couldn't get the handcuffs off him for three hours last time.
And we're suing you for that because he was under your care and control.
And just because you guys don't know how to do handcuffs, he doesn't have to bear that price.
So don't handcuff anybody.
Don't slam anybody on the trunk of a car.
If you're going to arrest us, just touch us on the shoulder.
Guys, when you're touched on the shoulder by a police and they say you're under arrest, you are under arrest.
You don't have to be hit or thrown around or handcuffed or abused.
But if they touch you like this, submit and do what they say.
Don't resist.
Now, you can still talk, obviously.
David, you're sort of a specialist at that.
But I'm just telling the cops, don't hurt us because we're going to sue you till the end of time if you do.
We're not here to make your job tough.
That's being handled by the Hamas thugs on the other side.
We're here to do journalism.
And I want to share with you guys some of the questions we're going to ask.
We're going to ask the people on the other side if they're Canadian citizens, because I know a lot of them aren't.
We're going to ask them if they think it's respectful to Canada to bring their violence and hatred with them to Canada.
We're going to ask them if they think that calling for an intifada is acceptable in Canada.
We're going to ask them who's paying for them.
As you know, Global News has reported there are 700 agents in Canada paid for by Iran.
Are they on the payroll?
They do this all the time.
Who is paying for them?
There's a number of organizers who this is their profession.
Who's paying for them?
Why is there never a Canadian flag on the side of the haters?
Do they love Canada?
And why won't they say it?
These are some questions.
You can think of your own, but remember, we're here as journalists.
We're not here to fight them.
We're not here to protest them.
We're here to ask tough questions.
I see the cultists there, the individuals that look like Orthodox Jews.
Why are they lining up with, it's like chickens in support of Colonel Saunders.
That's right, folks.
I don't know if you can see across the street there.
There is a small group of, they really are a cult that represents less than one-tenth of 1% of Jews.
It's called the Naturai Karta, and they're paid by Iran.
Iran pays them in New York, in Montreal, in Toronto to come out.
And they're the favorites.
They're the absolute favorites of the Hamas side because they're Jews against Israel.
They're sort of wacko, self-loathing Jews.
The question for them is who is paying you and how much were you paid to be here today?
So thanks to the rebels from all across Canada who have flown in today and those on Toronto taking.
So let's do our work and stay safe, everybody.
I just want to tell you one more thing.
We have a lawyer on standby, but we also have a team of one, two, three, four, five private security here to keep us safe.
Now, the problem with private security is they can keep you safe from the ragamuffins on the street, but when police present, private security backs away.
Private security never contradicts police.
So our private security have introduced themselves to the police, and hopefully things will go smoothly.
And we want the private security because remember, a lot of these pro-Hamas thugs, they'll punch you, they'll slap you if they think they can get away with it.
So we will have protection.
But like I say, there is no protection you can hire when the police themselves go woke.
I'm not going to show you the faces of our security because they want to keep their privacy, but just know we have five security guards with us today.
I want to let you know that no other journalist organization in Canada has to bear this burden of lawyers and security just to go in the street.
And by the way, this is my neighborhood.
I live just about five minutes away from here.
You might even recognize this mall.
This is where I did streeters against Yaara Sachs, the pro-PLO MP that Trudeau has in this district.
So this is, I mean, I shop in the metro.
I go to Wimpy's Diner, as you can see.
I'm there way too often.
This is my turf.
And there's no way in hell I'm going to concede this land to some colonists for Hamas.
It ain't happening.
Anyhow, let's do some journalism.
Let's gather the whole team.
Let's gather the whole team.
So these cops here have been given instructions to arrest us when we go over to the other side.
It's not a crime to go over to the other side.
It's not even in the criminal code.
They're going to say it's the breach of peace.
Officer Kerr, Officer Colin, this guy's hiding his name.
I don't blame him.
These guys have been instructed to arrest us as journalists with our journalist ID asking questions of the pro-Hamas side.
They will arrest us.
Now, that's not going to stop me because we're going to turn lemons into lemonade.
We're going to turn this into a teachable moment.
What's your name, by the way?
I just don't see your name on your badge.
Officer Grandin, okay, we got that.
What's your name again?
Officer Ibrahim, Grandin, Colin, and Kerr.
So these guys have been instructed with the rest of them.
You can see they're swarming rebel news.
They're not swarming the pro-Hamas thugs.
They're deploying the whole bunch of them.
Look at that.
You got this, guys?
All right.
Okay.
So they've sent over, they've sent over a massive amount of people.
They will arrest us.
We all have the phone number for Leora Shemesh.
In fact, let me just make sure the cops have that.
Guys, when you arrest us, our lawyer is Leora Shemesh.
And I think you have her phone number.
All of our team has the phone number in our Slack.
So she will be the lawyer that will engage in this file.
And I just want to let you know we are going to sue every single one of you personally for violating our charter rights if you stop us from doing our journalism.
We're not going to come closer than two feet.
So guys, the microphone's going to stay this far away.
The microphone will pick up their sound.
By being this far away, they obviously have no legal case for charging us or, I mean, basically it's a BS charge.
They're going to do what they did to David.
They're going to rough us up a bit, slam us on the hood of a car, handcuff us.
Maybe the handcuffs will work, maybe not.
They'll take us to the police station.
They'll humiliate us.
They'll run some errands.
Maybe they'll pick up some Tim Horton's coffee for the Hamas guys.
And then they'll let us go.
Who knows?
Maybe they won't.
Maybe they'll try and make the charges stick.
Now, I don't want people to come over if they cannot handle an arrest.
I'm going to go over, for those of you who don't want to be part of that, they really do mean to arrest us.
This is a bit of a staring contest and irresistible force and an immovable object.
They think that freedom of the press and freedom of mobility only applies to the pro-Hamas thugs.
We think it applies to Canadian journalists and indeed all Canadian citizens.
This is my neighborhood, not the neighborhood of these bust-in foreign nationals and agents provocateurs.
This is actually my bank that they're standing in front of.
This is my mall where I do my shopping.
And for these police to arrest me, as I've just been told they're going to do, to arrest me for walking across the street in my own neighborhood is something that I will sue them until the end of time and we'll have it out before a judge.
So I'm going to wait until the walk light turns green and then we're going to go across.
You will be arrested if you come over with me.
So don't come over.
I'm not compelling you to come over.
If you choose to come over with me, obviously we'll defend you and we'll make you a plaintiff in a massive lawsuit against the Toronto Police.
They're the most woke police in the country.
They've had a crime wave and their advice for the crime wave is, hey, leave your car keys.
Leave your car keys near the front door.
So they may just arrest me because I'm the biggest mouth.
They might arrest David because he's big mouth number two.
Or they may arrest all of us.
I'm going to prepare for that.
They're probably going to slam me against the car.
So I'm just going to take out my headphones now.
Hey, boss.
I just want to ask you what the rules of engagement are because I plan to go over to the other side of the street and stay two feet away, like this, far away, and have my microphone like this.
Now, I understand.
I've just been told that you plan to arrest me and everyone on my team if we cross the street.
Is that true?
I can tell you what's happening.
We have a media area set up for all of you because set up over there.
The media area is called Canada.
I understand that, sir.
But last time when you were over here, you're inciting this crowd.
Rules Of Engagement00:13:17
It's not true.
And I've never been here before.
I have not incited anybody.
This is what happened to Rebel News last time, okay?
So you're blackballing Rebel News.
I'm not blackballing Rebel News.
What I'm saying is we have an area we have to facilitate it for you.
If you can accept that, you can accept that.
I don't.
Well, that's up to you.
That's up to you.
So who will you arrest if we go over?
I'm not arresting anybody.
I'll play.
Okay, good.
We'll just see what happens.
We'll just see what happens.
So I just want to let you know our rules of engagement are twofold.
And I want to tell you this because I should disclose to you, we're going to sue the Toronto Police.
For my staff.
This is what I've told my staff.
Number one, I've said, don't come closer than two feet from anybody.
Don't put a microphone in someone's face.
So this is about as close the way I'm holding the microphone to you.
And if they don't want to engage with you, then what?
Then they don't have to talk to us, but they don't have the right to silence us.
I understand that.
They don't have the right to talk to you about.
Then what do you do?
Well, we may ask them follow-up questions or we may move on, but we're not having our journalism governed by the Toronto police.
Other than we're going to stay two feet away from people.
And when you arrest us, do me a favor, just put your hand on us.
Don't slam us on the hood of the car.
You hurt him.
I've never hurt him.
Well, you personally haven't, but your team has.
He doesn't need to be handcuffed.
He has a hip issue that is exacerbated by the handcuffs.
I wasn't there.
I wasn't there.
I can't speak on that.
I wasn't there.
Okay, well, I'm telling you, I've told our team that if we are arrested, which will be signified by a hand on our person, do not handcuff us.
Do not commit violence against us.
Don't slam us on the hood of the car.
I've never committed violence against you.
good i'm glad to hear that because if all right thank you Okay, so we're going to go over now.
The police say I'm not allowed to do journalism over here.
The police say that I have to go to the free speech zone.
The police say that I'm not allowed to ask questions after I've asked my first question.
But the police are not my editor-in-chief.
I'm my own person.
I'm a Canadian.
And fellas, I'm going to tell you what I told your boss on the other side.
I'm going to stay two feet away from them.
I'm not going to put the microphone any closer than this to them, so I'm not going to get anyone's grill.
I'm not going to touch anyone.
I'm not going to threaten anyone, but I am going to do journalism.
And I would ask that if you arrest me, that you not commit violence on me.
Just simply touch me on the shoulder.
No need for handcuffs or to throw me on the trunk of a car like you did to David last time.
Any questions for me before I go in?
No?
I can give you a hat later on as a souvenir of this momentous day.
A Jew is not a Zionist.
A Zionist is not a Jew.
Zionism is in no way it's supporting, representing Judaism.
Hi, what's your name?
I want to ask you to please move back.
We have a lot of equipment here, so please can you just move back?
Can you please move back?
That's a salt.
No, it's not a salt.
You're in my space, my personal space.
No, you came up.
Who are you?
What's your name?
Are you a Canadian citizen?
Are you a Canadian citizen?
What's your name?
What's your name?
None of your business.
Let's go guys, come on.
Get your guys to move them back.
Get your guys to move them back to the sidewalk.
Let's just go to the sidewalk.
Let's go to the sidewalk.
Go to the sidewalk.
Go to the sidewalk.
There you go.
Hold on.
We're not going to fall around.
Why is that?
Because we want everybody to stand up on that side.
I know what you want.
And I actually think that's probably wise from your point of view.
It's the path of least resistance.
But I do have certain rights as a citizen and as a journalist.
Just letting you know I'm recording now too.
We're recording you too, Gavin.
Thanks very much.
So we're going to do it here.
I know that.
If you want to interview him, just like be sensible about it.
And what do you mean by sensible?
So to sort of be more detailed, I'm going to say being sensible.
If you can see that they're getting heated, maybe that's a good time to slow down and then reapproach your questions later.
Did this make sense?
It makes sense in terms of what's a reasonable approach, but it's not the legal approach.
I have the right to ask them whatever question.
Of course, but if they're getting upset, then as a human being, it's kind of like, maybe I should back up.
But I don't want to give these are terrorist supporters.
I'm obviously not going to give them a veto over what I ask or say.
Well, just like you're giving me a chance to speak.
But you're a regular guy.
You're a Canadian.
You're a cop.
You're a good guy.
These are foreign thugs.
They're Hamas supporters.
They're terrorist supporters.
I'm not seeing you be upset.
I would stop.
My questioning.
But you're not a journalist, though.
And actually, I'm guessing sometimes even a cop asks questions that are uncomfortable.
Who pays for you?
Who paid you to be here?
Who paid for you to be here?
Who paid for you to be here?
Why are you pushing me away?
Because it's just everybody says here's the space.
Who's unsafe?
Who's in the space, right?
These are cult members.
I'm just going to move you over here.
Excuse me, sir.
These are anti-Semitic cult members.
There's a very small group of Jews called the Naturai Karta.
And it's like a cult.
Just like there's some cult members like the Westboro Baptist Church or some other extremist outcroppings of baptism that aren't real Christianity.
These people are fake Jews.
They're a cult and they're a favorite of Iran.
Iran pays for them to come to these protests to muddy the waters, to make it seem like real Jews don't support Israel.
Of course, that's as absurd as saying real French people don't support France or real Spanish people don't support Spain.
It's madness and it's the view of these anti-Semitic Jews.
It sounds weird to see an anti-Semitic Jew.
There are such a thing.
Just like there are self-hating black people, self-hating gay people.
These anti-Semitic Jews are a 0.1% of the Jewish community, but they are an absolute favorite of these Hamas rallies because they are a talking point for the Iran-funded Hamas side who says, look, even the Jews don't like Israel.
They're fakes and they're paid and they wouldn't answer our questions about who's paying them.
Hey, I've got a question for you.
Have you ever seen this many cops?
Have you ever seen this many cops outside saying one of the Jewish schools that has been arsoned or torched?
One of the Jewish synagogues that's been Molotov cocktailed?
Or hell, just even if there's a group.
Well, you know what?
For 50 years, I backed the blue.
It's getting tougher every year, I gotta say.
Are you a police informant?
Do you work with the police?
No comment.
I think I'll answer that.
No, I'm not.
Well, why did you answer no comment at first?
Because I don't want to talk to you.
Well, why are you here then?
We're here for the Palestinians.
We're here.
Why are you wearing a skirt?
But that's not the Canadian way.
I don't think you're Canadian.
You're in Canada now.
Your hat's not Canadian.
Sure, it is.
No, it's not.
What makes it Canadian?
What makes you hat Canadian?
I believe in Canadian values.
Did you wear a poppy on Remembrance Day?
I answered your question.
Did you wear a poppy on Remembrance Day?
Yes, I did.
Was it the Hamas poppy or the Canadian poppy?
Sorry, there's only one poppy.
Can you explain to me how you love Canada?
Can you explain to me how you can see that?
Do you love Canada?
Answer my question.
Let's go.
Let's go.
He's fine and I'm fine.
That's it.
He's fine and I'm fine.
That's it.
Why are you ending it?
The microphone right in his mouth.
And he's not objecting.
He's not objecting to it.
No, we're bantering back and forth.
Why are you editing me?
Look at him.
He's laughing.
That's harassing.
Are you interrupting interviews?
Why are you interrupting interviews?
He was fine with it.
And this cop just pushed me.
He pushed me.
He assaulted me.
Put your hand down.
Get out of here.
Don't assault me.
I need to push him out.
Why are you stopping into this?
Benzies, you're arrested, bro.
You should not be here.
You got you paid TPS to be here.
Your informants are right there.
He got arrested and he has no restrictions to be here.
He should have conditions that he can't be a Baptist shepherd.
When you get arrested in a place, you have conditions.
He's still here.
Means that he paid off TPS.
He's an informant.
You sound like a crazy man.
Why are you still here?
Do you have such an inside track with the Tron House?
What were you doing at the police station the other day?
Please don't go.
Where are you from originally?
Why won't you say?
I'll tell you where I'm from.
I'm from Canada.
No, I was born and raised here.
Where are you born and raised?
I was right here, Canada.
I don't believe that.
Well, you want to believe?
Doesn't matter.
I mean, you speak with a thick accent.
Listen, a lot of people come here to be Canadians.
You come here to undermine Canada.
I mean, what do you think ordinary Canadians?
I don't believe that.
What have you done for Canada besides spread anti-Semitic hate?
There's no anti-Semitic here.
The anti-Semitic hate is right on that side.
You're a Jew hater.
Why don't you embrace it?
You support Hamas?
We lived with Jews for eternity of creation.
Jews, Muslims, and Christians have lived together in peace and harmony.
Zionists have come in and caused divide.
There's no hate.
We have Jews right there.
You see the Hasidic Jews over there?
Those Jewish rabbis?
They're on our side.
Why?
That's because you pay them.
Those are natural icarsa.
They're paid to be here.
Nope, they're not paid to be here, not a single cent.
Will you renounce Hamas?
Will you renounce Hamas?
What does your hat say?
What did your hat say?
I'm not in your personal space.
No, I'm not.
What's your name?
Are you ashamed?
Is that why you won't say your name?
Did you order police around?
Whose streets?
Our streets.
Is that what the anti-forgotten says?
Whose streets?
Our streets.
Whose streets?
You have any luck getting any answers?
No, not at all.
And again, the triple standard, Ezra, you know, we have seen in the last couple weeks the pro-Hamas people upping the game, displaying swastikas.
And when they approach those people, it's kind of like, will you pretty pleased with sugar on top, put that sign down as opposed to what happened to me last Sunday without a single warning, arrested brutally and taken to 32 division.
We see chance for genocide, contrary to section 319.
Oh, I appreciate that, but I've got one.
You know what?
I think you'd probably poison me.
Yeah, you would blow me up with a rocket.
Don't answer your beeper, brother.
It's a trap.
Don't answer your beeper.
It's a trap.
Don't answer your beeper.
That's a death threat, eh?
No, I'm saying, don't.
I'm giving you a warning.
Don't answer your beeper.
It's a trap.
I don't have beeper.
Can I give you a hug?
No, I don't want to be touched by you.
That's an assault.
That's called racism.
No, it's just I don't want someone who supports Hamas to touch me in an assault.
Anyhow, I think what we just saw there, Ezra, if there's one thing the Palestinians know how to do better than anyone, it's the fine art of public relations.
Look how they've swayed world opinion.
Look how they've swayed mainstream media.
Look how they've swayed academia.
And part of it, Ezra, you know, here's some inside baseball.
When journalists go over, you know, to Israel, Gaza, what have you, when they go into the Palestinian territory, they need what's known as a fixer.
It's basically a cab driver that drives them around the families for interviews.
And while the journalists are there, they are treated like royalty.
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They're rewined and dined.
You name it.
And I think what happens, Ezra, it's kind of like Stockholm syndrome, right?
You start identifying with the bad guys.
So again, the fine art of public relations, as you saw, this guy was not being abusive to you.
He offered us water.
He wanted to hug you.
That was his second attempt or third attempt.
His first few were not as friendly.
Yeah, so again, we're seeing the unspoken agenda of the fine art of public relations.
And certainly it's worked on the Toronto Police Service.
They're working as their Pretorian Guard this morning.
Well, I mean, I think so far my report would be we asserted our rights to be on the street.
The police tried to stop us.
They said they would arrest us.
They said they would do this and that.
But in the end, I think they blinked.
And I think it's because we came out in force.
And David, I want to let you know that the reason so many rebels came from Vancouver and Calgary and Florida and Montreal and of course Toronto is because we're like the three Musketeers, all for one and one for all.
And when we saw you being arrested right here last week, we decided we were going to come and show solidarity.
And the police have realized that it's easy to tackle David Menzies, but David Menzies and a dozen of his friends, that's a little bit a bigger problem.
And I'm delighted that we seem to have prevailed.
Ezra, this is the most humbling moment of my life.
I'm looking at all the out-of-towners.
Avery, Alexa, Sid, Tamara, Raya, Yankee, all the way from Florida, Mariah from Alberta.
My heart is breaking at the solidarity that is being shown for me.
I couldn't ask for a better employer.
I couldn't ask for better staffers.
I love you all, except one.
I don't dare ask who that is.
Hey, look, there's our truck.
There's our billboard truck.
David Menzies.
You know what?
I love seeing that truck.
It's circling the block.
There it is.
Look at how beautiful, how brilliant that is.
That's so bright.
You know what?
Look at that.
Toronto police arrest the rioters, not the journalists.
That's our message.
On the other side there, they're not letting people come across the street to join or to have any solidarity.
I'm not surprised.
The other, I mean, we came with a serious mission, and I think they blinked.
But they're easy to pick off individual people one at a time.
Hey, Drea, I don't want to interrupt you, but can I chat with you a little bit?
I was going to say, you know, I don't want to stop you, but you've come the furthest.
You came in all the way from Vancouver to be here today.
What's your thoughts so far?
Well, you know, David has been arrested five times this year.
That should make all Canadians upset about this and willing to stand with this issue.
So obviously, I'm going to be here to stand with David and prove the point that in a country like Canada, we should be free to practice journalism.
We should be free to ask questions that Canadians want to hear, and we should be free to break Canada, the other side of the story.
That's why we're here.
That's why we crossed the street despite the police cautioning us not to.
And that's why you can always count on Rebel News to get this story for you.
The police set up a free speech zone for us.
And I said, sorry, Canada is my free speech zone.
And I think they were trying to scare us or make us blink, but at the end of the day, we prevailed.
Well, we're following the law, and that's the thing.
And so is David Menzies every time that they arrest them.
So now we're here in full force to prove it.
And where are all of the civil liberties?
Why are they not saying something?
Where's all the politicians that when the CBC journalist complains about a mean tweet, they go on their Twitter and say, how dare you?
Where are they?
How dare they?
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I want to say, Drea, in closing, thank you for making the long journey to support David.
But I also want to say you're the only person for whom the Panama hat looks great on.
It actually looks great on you.
Well, full story, I have this already.
I've been secretly dressing up as David Lendies for quite some time, so it all worked out.
It looks wonderful.
Thank you again for making such a you flew all the way overnight.
I've taken that flight.
It's rough.
The night flight, you got here bright and early.
Thank you for being here in solidarity with David.
Wouldn't miss it for the world.
You're getting in my face now, sir.
Are you going to arrest me?
If I have to.
So she was assaulted.
You're not going to arrest the guy who assaulted her, but you're going to arrest me for asking you questions about an assault?
I think it could be interpreted both ways.
No!
No, I don't.
Let me hurt.
Let's not be in touch with what you did.
What a coward you are, sir.
I think you know that.
That's your opinion.
Jill!
Joel!
You assaulted my camera.
Shut up!
She did space!
She's hard to move me!
No!
No, I don't let me hurt!
Let's not be in touch with what you did!
No, I did nothing!
Stay right here.
He pushed me!
Stay right here.
Yell at me!
He pushed me, Bjorni!
Have it on camera!
He pushed me!
Yell at me!
Of course we've got to be having no camera.
Alexa, are you okay?
She's next.
Officers, you witnessed my colleague getting physically assaulted.
She's female.
The perpetrator's male.
Why are there no charges?
So, in the streets of our Dominion, if you're chanting genocide, if you're part of the pro-Hamas crowd, a female citizen can be assaulted and you won't charge them?
I think what we saw is that your camera lady had the camera right in his face.
He has his personal space too.
We got to respect that.
I have a space between me and him, okay?
Because if I'm too close, I cannot cap.
Well, then he needs a space as well.
I think he needs like a serious therapy of violence.
Okay, that's your opinion.
Officer, we back the blue, but we're just asking you to uphold your oath.
I just said what I had to.
Got nothing more to say.
So, if a camera gets too close, it is acceptable for a man to hit a woman in Toronto?
I don't believe he hit her, he just pushed her away.
He hit her.
Do you have it on chase?
I mean, like some people stammer either way.
I don't know whether she has it tipped or not.
Well, she says she did.
Will you look at it?
Will you look at it?
No, I don't need to see anything now.
I've got other pressing.
It's the first assault of the day.
I know arresting David may sound more pressing, but it's not actually.
So she's got the tape.
Will you look at it?
No.
So she was just assaulted.
You've got 50 cops here stopping our journalism.
So why won't you look at it?
I don't want to.
But I said, I've got other priorities to attend to.
What are you doing?
You're standing around.
What's a higher priority?
Okay, I've said what I had to say.
You got my comment.
I'll move on.
Well, who do we talk to if we don't look like assaults on the city street?
Seriously, who do we talk to?
Why are you running away?
Why are you running away?
You're getting in my face now, sir.
Are you gonna arrest me if I have to?
So, she was assaulted.
You're not gonna arrest the guy who assaulted her, but you're gonna arrest me for asking you questions about an assault.
I think it could be interpreted both ways.
You just saw an assault, and you're saying you're gonna arrest me instead of the man who assaulted her.
It could be interpreted that she assaulted him by getting in his business.
Well, why don't you look at the video then?
Okay, why don't you look at the video?
We will in good time, right?
You're lying again.
We've got other things to do, right?
Like what?
I said what I have to say, that's the end of it.
What a coward you are, sir.
I think you know that.
That's your opinion.
You saw a woman get assaulted, you refuse to look at the evidence.
You've heard what he said to you.
I know, and he's a coward, isn't he?
I sure did.
And I sure did.
Okay, so if she wants to deal with this, it's not the time and place right now.
Well, what is the time and place?
When we sorted everything out.
If this are you sorting out, she's not even looking at it.
I'll be happy to take one from you.
Okay, now we're not.
Officer Jack, but what are you doing instead?
She was assaulted.
Okay, let's go.
Okay, and that's fine.
And if she was assaulted, listen, we're going to look at the videotape.
We're going to investigate it.
If we want to take a report, we'll take a report for it.
But I didn't see it.
I can't speak to it.
Well, he saw it.
We have video on it, and we'll investigate it and we'll make him arrested.
They're an arrestee to meet him.
All right, I'm going to hold you to that.
Of course, of course.
And I recommend he's not on the file.
He doesn't give a shit.
Okay.
There's no need to spit the venom.
Like I said, if she was assaulted, like all the cameras were on.
We will see that assault.
An investigation will be commenced on it, and an arrest will be made.