EZRA LEVANT ｜ Toronto police target David Menzies for second time in brutal arrest
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Summary
A terrible thing happened over the weekend in Toronto. Our friend David Menzies went to cover a pro-Israel event where pro-Hamas hate marchers crashed the event, and police arrested him. And they roughed him up and they cut his head. It's awful. I'll show you what happened, and my thoughts on what's going to happen next.
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Hello, my friends. A terrible thing happened over the weekend. Our friend David Menzies
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went to cover another event. It was actually a pro-Jewish event where some pro-Hamas hate
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marchers crashed the event. David went to talk to those Hamas hate marchers, and police arrested
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David. And they took him to jail, and they roughed him up, and they cut his head.
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It's awful what's going on. I'll show you what happened, and I'll also tell you my thoughts on
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what's going to happen next. It's essential that you see the video version of this because you have
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Tonight, Toronto police go full authoritarian in their war against David Menzies and Rebel
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News. It's April 8th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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What an atrocious weekend in Toronto. It started on Saturday with a protest. There were pro and con
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both sides of the Middle East dispute. It's my observation that the same people are at the pro-Gaza
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side. They're professional activists. They're well-funded. They have buses, bussing them in.
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They have professionally made placards in some cases. Some of that money is Canadian public
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sector unions or other far-left organizations. But it's indubitable that some of that money is
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foreign money. As you may know, it's been widely reported that Iran has 700 active agents in Canada
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working to foment anti-Semitism. For years, they worked on the Al-Quds Day,
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a fake holiday created by Iran. It's basically an anti-Semitic holiday. Here's a tweet from Premier
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Doug Ford a few years back saying he was against Al-Quds Day and he'd stop it. Yeah, no, he never
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has. But really, when was the last time he did anything to stop anti-Semitism against Jews,
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to stop the hate marches outside synagogues? I think Doug Ford's been a disgrace. But the reason I
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mention Saturday's event is because there are people of goodwill and good faith in this country,
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including a young man named Salman Sima. We've done shows with him before. He's a young man who
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is from Iran, as the name suggests, and he was imprisoned and tortured by the Ayatollahs. He's
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in Canada now, and he's learned a lesson to fight against tyranny. He often goes to anti-Hamas protests,
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pro-Israel protests, with an Iranian flag, but not the current Iranian flag, one that calls for the
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Shah of Iran to return. That's when Iran was a pro-Western, more liberal country. Anyway, Salman
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Sima was the only person attending the Al-Quds Day hate fest. He was attending it in goodwill
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with a Canadian flag and a placard that said Hamas are terrorists, which happens to be a statement of
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fact and a statement of law. In Canada, Hamas indeed are a banned terrorist group. So what did the police
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do? Well, they arrested him and injured him in the process. Take a look.
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Just a little space, thank you. Yeah, you can, but you can do it over here.
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Why are you running? Stop walking in the wrong direction.
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My shoulder is broken. My shoulder is broken. Yes.
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Is there a medical condition? Yes. Yes. Dislocated. My shoulder is broken.
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I'm going to go to dry hunger strike. No, I'm going to go to dry hunger strike.
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No, I'm going to go to dry hunger strike. I said that Hamas is a terrorist organization.
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Hamas is a terrorist organization. Under criminal code of Canada, Hamas is a terrorist organization.
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I was so peaceful and I had a Canadian flag. Show the Canadian flag.
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Someone, have you ever been arrested before? No. Is this your first time? Yes, it's the first time.
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Do you have a criminal record? No. Do you have a lawyer? I'm going to ask.
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I just said that Hamas is a terrorist organization. I was so peaceful.
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Still, I wear a Canadian flag and you can see that.
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And my shoulder is dislocated and they are pushing the right shoulder.
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Absolutely disgraceful. They took him to jail. When they released him, he had to go to the hospital.
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Just absolutely atrocious what they did to Salman Sima, the one patriotic Canadian there.
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Absolutely nonviolent. But look who the police were completely fine with.
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Here's a pro-Hamas agitator wearing a terrorist style bandolier of smoke grenades.
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It wasn't dynamite to blow himself up, although that's how it looks.
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But since when do you attend a protest with smoke grenades? And police say, yep, no problem here.
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Our friend David Menzies covered this on Saturday and went to the hospital to talk to Salman later that night.
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It was a premonition of exactly what would happen to David the next day.
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So Saturday was the Iran-sponsored anti-Semitic hate fest in Toronto, where Salman Sima was arrested.
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Sunday was a pro-Israel Jewish march at City Hall in something called Nathan Phillips Square.
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That's right outside City Hall. And it was a vigil for the sixth month anniversary of the massacre in southern Israel committed by Hamas terrorists.
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And the taking of hundreds of hostages, some of whom are still held to this day.
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And of course, the foreign funded Hamas activists crashed that funeral.
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In a way, they're like the Westboro Baptist Church crashing funerals.
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And then take a look at when our friend and reporter David Menzies went to interview some of these Hamas activists,
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just standing there peacefully, just asking questions with its microphone.
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And you guessed it, the police roughed him up, arrested him, handcuffed him, threw him in the back of a truck and jailed him,
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just like they did to Salman Sima the day before, and just like they did to David a couple of weeks ago.
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They can chant, genocide in the street, and I can't cover that.
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Listen, if I'm under arrest, get your hands off, okay, then I'll take it.
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Put your phone down, put your hand behind your back, put your hand behind your back.
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You're under arrest for refusing to leave, okay?
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Once again, you can have 10 genocides in the streets of our democracy.
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You're under arrest for refusing to leave, promised this, okay, Mr. Menjee?
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Why are you, why are you, why are you, why are you, why are you, are you catching this?
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Okay, now they've taken my phone and they've taken my hat.
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Again, you can send genocide on this street and you can wear fake suicide masks and that's okay.
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I'm a bit of an expert in the Trespass Act and we teach our journalists about the Trespass Act all the time.
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We teach them two things about it, which is when you're on private property, which by the way includes private property to which the public is invited to attend, like a shopping mall.
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You have public access to it, but it's a private property.
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When you're in private property, someone's house, someone's restaurant, a mall, if someone on behalf of the owner or a tenant, someone lawfully says, get out for any reason or no reason, you have the obligation to get out right away.
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And in fact, whoever is in control of the premises can pretty much escort you out using reasonable force.
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The moment someone says, get out of private property, you got to start getting out.
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You don't have to run, but you have to move with some alacrity.
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And of course, we make sure our journalists understand that.
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But there's different rules when it comes to public property, like Nathan Phillips Square in front of a city hall,
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like a sidewalk, do the police have a right to trespass you, to order you to leave a public sidewalk or a public park or the public plaza outside city hall,
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especially when there is a official event going on there to which David was invited.
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And I know this because you might recall a few years ago, that same Nathan Phillips Square right in front of city hall was the site of an Antifa-led shanty town.
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They set up these tents, which was against many laws, by the way, and they stayed there for weeks.
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And when Rebel News went to do journalism there, the police kicked us out.
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Now, we studied the law and went back with a lawyer in tow, and we knew the law that unless we were doing one of a short list of banned things,
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like getting into fights or playing very loud music or getting drunk,
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you cannot simply be shooed off of public land just because a politician or a cop doesn't like you.
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Here's me sort of negotiating with a cop a few years ago.
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We had a lawyer in tow, and we were freshly briefed in the law of the Trespass Act as it applies to public parks and in particular to that plaza.
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We've been separated from some members of our team.
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Hey, police, police, police, police, look at this.
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I guess they have to enforce the Bay Street clear lane or something.
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We came here today with seven private, professional, insured security so we could do journalism.
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We briefed ourselves on various laws and we were compliant throughout.
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No swearing, no troublemaking, and we simply stood in there to report and our security did
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their best, but they were overwhelmed and there was a fisticuff.
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I'd like to go back and calmly stand in the town square and do a five-minute news report,
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but I was driven out despite spending thousands of dollars on private security.
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Now that you guys are here, I wonder if I can walk back into the town square of my city
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peacefully in compliance with all laws and exercise my right as a journalist.
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All right, you don't have to put that in my face.
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So we were talking to the security over there, right, and they were saying that some of the
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words you guys were saying and using were antagonizing the crowd there.
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So when that police officer said to David Menzies, you are being arrested because you did not leave
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the premises, David Menzies didn't have to leave the premises just because some cops said
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so or just because some Hamas protester didn't like him.
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However, those Hamas activists who physically punched and shoved him and knocked the microphone
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out of his hand, well, they did not only break the Trespass Act for public places, but they
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And here's my interview with him when he finally got out of jail some three hours later.
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I'm standing outside Division 52 police station.
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They've let David Menzies go, but he has to go back to court.
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They have made several criminal charges against him.
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One of them, the most insane of them, is under the Trespass Act.
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They said he was trespassed from the public property in front of City Hall.
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I didn't duck in time to hit the roof of the paddy wagon.
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But for some reason, while I was handcuffed, one of the officers, I don't know which one, Ezra, was pressuring my shoulder and my arms.
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And I've been going, as you know, for a few months for physiotherapy here.
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And it's really, I'm wondering if all that therapy is being undone by that.
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It is crazy, Ezra, because there was, what, maybe 2,000 people on the square today.
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There was the predominance of the people were for Mr. Paliyev's speech to the pro-Israel people.
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And there was a small Hamas, pro-Hamas demonstration.
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And I'm thinking, out of all these people, literally in the public square, a journalist doing public service journalism, just asking questions.
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And by the way, and Efren can account for this.
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I mean, I haven't even seen the footage, but I can tell you, we were getting physically assaulted by the pro-Hamas people.
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They had no basis to arrest him, no basis to detain him, no basis to handcuff him, no basis to assault him.
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And when you are arrested, by the way, and you must do exactly what the police say, otherwise you're resisting arrest.
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When you are in police custody, your safety is now subject to the duty of care of the cops.
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That is, they have to take care of you, because you can't take care of yourself.
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And so when they put David in the back of the police truck and slammed his head on the roof, and when they handcuffed him and made it very painful for his shoulders, that's on them.
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And don't think that someone gets their head smashed into a police vehicle without the absolute determination by the police that that's what they're going to do to them.
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This is the third time this has happened in 2024.
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The first time, you'll recall, was when David Menzies had the temerity to ask Chrystia Freeland a question.
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Mr. Freeland, how come the IRDC is not a terrorist group?
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Why is your government supporting Islamo-Nationalism?
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I've got my credentials here, and you just bumped into me.
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Then this is a couple of weeks ago when they did this to David.
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In the first case, it was the RCMP and York Regional Police.
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In the next two times, it was the Toronto Police Service.
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Do you doubt for a second that they're targeting David Menzies?
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He's never gotten physical with anyone in his life.
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But in both cases of Chrystia Freeland and covering these Hamas hate marches,
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He was embarrassing Chrystia Freeland by asking a question about radical Islam.
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And when he's with the Jews, as he was yesterday,
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or covering the Hamas activists, as he was on Saturday,
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And so the police come in, swoop in, and take him away.
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Not only are they doing Justin Trudeau's bidding,
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Here's dozens or hundreds of foreign-funded, wild-eyed, in some cases, masked Hamas mobs,
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who clearly are engaging in violence, versus one guy, David Menzies.
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Well, who's going to be easier to throw in the back of a policeman?
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They'll arrest a peaceful journalist, peacefully practicing journalism,
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under his freedom of the press guaranteed by the Charter of Rights,
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and they won't touch the actual violent people, because that's too much hassle.
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And they'll get in trouble with Justin Trudeau.
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By the way, you might remember, a couple of months ago,
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Justin Trudeau had a private meeting with the Toronto police chief.
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The Toronto police chief does not answer to Justin Trudeau.
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Who else would be able to command a meeting with the police chief
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contrary to whatever the wishes of the police commission were?
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And is it related to the fact that the police absolutely allowed the Hamas protesters
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to do whatever they want and to arrest any Jew or journalist that's against them?
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It's a terrible thing, and I'm going to talk more about it.
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But first, let me show you, I guess, a positive highlight from yesterday.
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Here's an excerpt of a speech given by Pierre Polyev to the assembled people there.
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Unfortunately, David was not there to cover it because he was in jail.
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and think of what a difference he is from Justin Trudeau.
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friends of humanity, Jews, Gentiles, people of all backgrounds,
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Canadians, all people of decency to stand against the homicidal, genocidal death cult
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that is Hamas, a death cult that must be destroyed
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so that we can free the hostages and restore peace for all.
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I'm joined by the great common sense conservative candidate, Roman Babber,
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A proud Jew and a strong voice for his community and for all communities.
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Six months ago, plus one day, on October 6th, what did we have?
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Israel had withdrawn its population and its forces from the Gaza territory.
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And Gaza was ruled over by the iron fist of Hamas in remote control by the tyrants of Tehran,
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the dictators in Iran who've been supplying Hamas with its weaponry, its logistics and intelligence.
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And Israel had kept its borders relatively soft so that Palestinians could even cross the border
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and work on the Israel side, bringing home a living for their family.
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And in this atmosphere, where there was a ceasefire, where Gaza was not controlled in any way, shape or form by Israel,
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an unprovoked attack was unleashed on October 7th, designed to commit the maximum human and civilian devastation
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in acts of cruelty that cannot even be spoken from this stage with sadistic delight by those who undertook them.
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The Israeli government and the Israeli people had not only the right, but the obligation to defend themselves
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and to fight back and lead to the destruction of Hamas.
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And here we stand, six months later, families continue to be tormented by the loss or captivity of their loved ones.
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The biggest attack on the Jewish people since the show up.
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And may all those that have been lost, may their memories be a blessing to us all.
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May we have the courage to stand with them abroad.
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What a difference between that and between Justin Trudeau.
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But the thing is, Justin Trudeau has done the math.
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I don't think Justin Trudeau particularly likes the Jews, even though his chief fundraiser is naturally Jewish.
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There's about 350,000 Jews in Canada, and there's about 2 million Muslims in Canada.
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I don't have the latest stats for Canadian Muslims, but the Henry Jackson Society just published a poll of British Muslims,
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Only one in four British Muslims believes that Hamas committed murder in rape in Israel on October 7th.
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Only one in four British Muslims says Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish homeland.
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Almost half of British Muslims, 46%, feel more sympathy with Hamas than with Israel, with only 3% saying Israel.
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They say, you know, it's just an incredible poll.
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It's the kind of results you would see if you did a poll in Pakistan or Bangladesh or Afghanistan.
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When you bring in hundreds of thousands or millions of people from Pakistan, Bangladesh, places like that,
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and you don't integrate them, assimilate them, acculturate them to Western liberal values,
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why are you surprised when they carry with them Pakistani values and Afghan values and Iraqi values?
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Even though there's no Jews in Pakistan or Afghanistan, I mean, literally zero,
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they hate Jews as a religious belief or as a political ideology.
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That doesn't change just because they get on a quick flight to London Heathrow or to Toronto, Canada.
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But let me tell you what's going on on the streets of Canada.
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I mentioned it the other day, something called broken windows theory.
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And let me show you an example of what I'm obviously referring to.
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That's actually a building under the National Register of Historic Places.
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That's an interesting old building, the kind of thing that would either be refurbished and turned into really cool shops
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Do you think every single window of it was broken on one day?
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I think it was fine until one window was broken.
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And when it wasn't fixed, then another was broken.
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And when it wasn't fixed, then another and another.
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I think that building is the symbol of what James Q.
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Wilson, the economist, calls broken windows theory or broken windows policing.
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I think it was on the live stream the other day.
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It's about social norms and conformity in a good way.
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We talk a lot on Rebel News about not conforming.
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But that's nonconformity to authoritarianism, to forced jabs, to ways of thinking that are not free.
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There are certain things where social norms and conformity are good, like self-control and not smashing windows or graffitiing.
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Broken windows theory is about the loss of social norms and positive conformity.
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And people say, oh, I can tell that no one really watches here, that I'm sort of alone with my dark imagination.
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When you see a building with broken windows like that, you realize that there's no conformity.
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And then finally, it signals that this is a high crime area, and that's just how it is, and that's the culture you've got to fit into.
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That broken windows theory is happening in Canada.
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And I think it's connected in a way to Canada's insane home invasion crime wave, which is happening at the same time.
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They break into the house for the purpose of getting the key fob.
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And they either drive away or copy the key fob and steal extremely expensive cars.
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This is happening several times a day in Toronto.
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It's absolutely terrifying, these home invasion crimes.
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And I believe it's part of the broken windows theory, is that people say, oh, there's no social norm against crime anymore.
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There's no conformity that we want a high-trust, high-safety society.
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No one is monitoring, and if they do, they don't care.
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And, by the way, this is just what we have to live with now.
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And I want to tell you the difference between broken windows theory and what's going on in Toronto.
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But I'm going to read this to you and I'm going to tell you the difference.
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So this is from a study on broken windows theory about 20 years old.
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In an anonymous urban environment with few or no other people around, social norms and monitoring are not clearly known.
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Thus, individuals look for signals within the environment as to the social norms in the setting and the risk of getting caught violating those norms.
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One of the signals is the area's general appearance.
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Under the broken windows theory, an ordered and clean environment, one that is maintained, sends a signal that the area is monitored and that criminal behavior is not tolerated.
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Conversely, a disordered environment, one that is not maintained, broken windows, graffiti, excessive litter, sends a signal that the area is not monitored and that the criminal behavior has little risk of detection.
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The theory assumes that the landscape communicates to people.
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A broken window transmits to criminals the message that a community displays a lack of informal social control and so is unable or unwilling to defend itself against a criminal invasion.
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It is not so much the actual broken window that is important, but the message the broken window sends to people.
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It symbolizes the community's defenselessness and vulnerability and represents a lack of cohesiveness of the people within.
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Neighborhoods with a strong sense of cohesion fix broken windows and assert social responsibility on themselves, effectively giving themselves control over their space.
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I just think every word here is gorgeous, better than I could write.
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The theory emphasizes the built environment, but must also consider human behavior.
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Under the impression that a broken window left unfixed leads to more serious problems, residents begin to change the way they see their community.
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In an attempt to stay safe, a cohesive community starts to fall apart as individuals start to spend less time in communal space to avoid potential violent attacks by strangers.
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The slow deterioration of a community as a result of broken windows modifies the way people behave when it comes to their communal space, which in turn breaks down community control.
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It's a spiral as rowdy teenagers, panhandlers, addicts, and prostitutes make their way into a community.
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It signifies that the community cannot assert informal social control and citizens become afraid that worse things will happen.
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As a result, they spend less time in the streets to avoid these subjects and feel less and less connected from their community if the problems persist.
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But understand the difference between mere broken windows theory and what's going on in Toronto and what's going on with these Gaza marches.
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Broken windows theory is about physical objects.
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It's about the physical environment communicating messages in an anonymous place, like at night, which is true.
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Like, that broken window tells you no one cares.
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It's not that people have to say, I don't care.
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But what about when everyone is there to watch?
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When you're not throwing a rock anonymously, when you're not scurrying in the dark doing graffiti, what about when everyone is there to watch you break the law?
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I mean, seriously, Pierre Polyev himself and other MPs were right there.
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You saw them punching and shoving David and knocking the microphone out of his hand.
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And so broken windows theory says when people get the vibe that you can commit minor crimes, they will.
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And the crimes will slowly get worse and worse and people will slowly recede from the public square.
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But it's all happening because you're interpreting the physical environment.
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If you're doing this in broad daylight and not in some alley, you're doing this right in front of City Hall.
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And you're breaking the law and you're calling for death to the Jews and you're hitting reporters and you're doing insane things.
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Much worse than just a broken window or litter or graffiti.
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And you're doing it in the plain sight of the police and they're fine with it.
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In fact, they arrest the one guy who's shining a light on it.
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Broken windows theory, which is exactly how Rudy Giuliani got New York back on track.
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They cracked down on turnstile jumping in the subway.
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They went after the little things to send the message, we're not allowing our society to unravel anymore.
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And it got safer and safer and safer and safer.
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But broken windows theory is about the physical environment.
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But when the human environment, when the people who are supposed to be watching, when the police who are supposed to be policing, when the reporters who are supposed to be reporting, when they're all watching these Hamas insane foreign activists commit their crimes with impunity, they are learning the lessons not over the course of months or years.
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They're learning the lessons over the course of weeks.
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They have learned they can get away with a lot more than just graffiti or broken windows or litter.
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They have learned that they are the new bosses.
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If you want to help us fight back, we've lawyered up.
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David Menzies for Rebel News here in downtown Toronto.
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And, folks, I'm standing outside St. Michael's Hospital.
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And the reason for that is that my guest, Salman Sima, had to be rushed here earlier tonight.
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You see, Mr. Sima was out on University Avenue doing a counter-demonstration to the pro-Hamas hate fest.
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This time it was the Al-Quds rally where the hateful rhetoric was being spewed.
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And you might be saying, which pro-Hamas supporter injured Salman Sima?
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It was the police that roughed him up that required Salman to come here and get treatment.
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What the heck happened several hours ago just west of here?
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So it was a hate festival, Al-Quds rally, which is backed by the Islamic regime in Iran.
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Clear sample of foreign interference in our country, in Canada.
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So I was standing in the sidewalk peacefully, and my sign was Hamas is a terrorist organization.
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We had a Canadian flag, and the other friends, they had a sign that IRGC is a terrorist organization.
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The other friends, they had a sign that rape is not resistant.
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So you've got this sign, you're doing a demonstration, you're vastly outnumbered by the pro-Hamas hooligans.
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Several times police officers tried to violate our Charter of Rights and Freedom.
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And they said that you cannot stay here, you cannot stay here.
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I said that no, as long as I am peaceful, I can stay here.
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Then police officers said that, oh, we are here to protect both sides.
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You are here to protect those jihadi anti-Semitic mob.
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They said that you are arrested for breaching of peace, something like that.
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We had just a sign and a Canadian flag, Lion and Sun flag, the real flag of Iran.
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So, Salman, just to be clear, though, they did indeed put you under arrest for breach of the peace.
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I know, as per usual, there were chants for genocide during this Al-Quds march, intifada, from the river to the sea, and so on.
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Exactly at the same moment that the officer tried to arrest me, they were chanting for intifada, intifada.
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Intifada means that violence attacked the Jews, not just in Israel, in all over the places.
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I've got to tell you, Salman, in the Department of Misery Loves Company, I know exactly where you're coming from with the Toronto Police.
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Folks, do you remember what happened last March when I was covering a pro-Hamas rally trying to shut down the Justin Trudeau fundraiser?
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Well, I got arrested because the police thought that I might ask questions that might incite the pro-Hamas hooligans.
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You know, there's a movie, Minority Report, set in the future.
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They arrest you if they think you're going to commit a crime.
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And this isn't the first time you've been roughed up.
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I believe going back to December 23rd of last year,
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once again, you had that egregious, offensive Canadian flag.
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They're attacking Salman Sina, grabbing the Iranian flag.
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By the way, Salman, when they roughed you up like that,
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stole your flag, any charges to any of those people?
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And unfortunately, I lost my freedom once in Iran by the Ayatollah,
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And I can see the unity of red and green alliance.
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And I can see that how Toronto police violated my Charter of Rights and Freedom.
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And Toronto police, they told me that, oh, we are doing it for your safety.
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I said that I don't exchange my freedom for safety.
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And that's perversely ironic because when the police roughed you up,
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that's what resulted in you having to go to hospital.
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Did you tell them that you had a previous shoulder injury from December?
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Did they, you know, modify their behavior at all?
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I said it and I was in a pain and I was screaming that, oh, my shoulder, my shoulder.
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The other friends, they know that my shoulder was dislocated.
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And even a police officer, because it's a dislocated shoulder,
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you cannot twist it how much or how long you want it.
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So they knew about the injury and they still manhandled you that way.
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That is absolutely egregious and outrageous, Salman.
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You know, what we've seen, I think, Salman, in the last six months
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since the October massacre in Israel is law enforcement here,
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And keeping the peace, to me, it looks like they are just turning a blind eye,
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whether it's chants of genocide, whether it's vandalism,
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whether it's firebombing Jewish businesses and restaurants,
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You know, going after the people in the pro-Hamas camp,
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We have a few of the other freedom fighters and some political prisoners from Iran,
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And even Toronto police, they don't keep the peace.
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We have incidents where the police were giving the pro-Hamas types free coffee and Timbits.
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I guess it can get kind of cold when you're out on a bridge all day spewing hatred in the middle of a Canadian winter.
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Salman, in terms of how you feel mentally, because this is not the first time you've been attacked,
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has this crushed your spirits, or are you going to continue fighting for freedom?
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You know that the moment that they sent me to the cell, it was a two-step, three-step cell.
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It reminds my memory from my torture in Iran, in Evin prison, when I was arrested and tortured by IRGC.
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And I said that, okay, you want to fight for freedom and peace in Iran.
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I mean, I live in a city with a huge Persian minority, Richmond Hill.
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And, you know, so many Persians tell me that the reason they left Iran was to get away from this tyrannical nonsense,
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and they are kind of shocked to see it come across the ocean onto our Canadian shores.
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In 2011, when I came to Canada, Canada was not like this.
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Well, Salman, I want to thank you so much for making time.
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And here's, I think, how I'm going to conclude this.
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Toronto Police Chief Myron Demku, it's time for you to go.
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It's time for you to resign after the atrocious way the police have been conducting themselves these last six months.
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I would argue that you are the worst police chief in the city of Toronto's history.
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And considering that bee-bumbling Bill Blair, the Justin Trudeau fart catcher in Ottawa, used to be a chief of police,
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If I'm not mistaken, that's the cop who donated 50 bucks of his own money when he was on leave from being a cop anyways.
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And he was docked a bunch of pay and he was prosecuted and denounced because someone said that the truckers were an illegal protest.
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Some individual people may have gotten parking tickets, but it was never deemed by any judicial authority in illegal protest.
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I'm glad the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms is taking the case.
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Yeah, you know what's crazy is that Hacker boasted that he illegally stole those names and posted them online.
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That was clearly done at the behest of the government of Canada since he was bragging about it with obvious impunity.
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But the police used literally stolen private data to go after a cop.
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What does that show you about the rule of law in Canada?
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home, good night.