Rebel News reporter Avi Yemini arrested first day on the job at Australian anti-lockdown rally
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Today we go deep into what happened to my friend Avi Amini, an Australian journalist who joined us on Friday and was arrested on Saturday. We ll show you everything that happened, if you're listening to the podcast, I guess you'll have to hear it.
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Hello, my Rebels. Today we go deep into what happened to my friend Avi Amini,
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an Australian journalist who joined us on Friday and was arrested on Saturday.
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If you're listening to the podcast, I guess you'll have to hear it.
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And I think it'll make sense, but I wish you could see it.
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It's September 8th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it
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We talked to him just a few weeks ago about the extreme lockdown in the Australian state of Victoria.
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Avi is based in Melbourne, Victoria's largest city,
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and he told us what it's like to be under a curfew when you're not allowed to leave your home,
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but for a few hours a day, not allowed to go beyond a few kilometers.
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It's the most shocking lockdown in the entire free world,
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In Victoria, police will literally come up to you on the street,
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If you don't have a face mask, they'll arrest you.
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If you made a Facebook post about opposing the lockdown,
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they'll come into your house with a search warrant,
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Yeah, you can show me your search warrant before you go through my house.
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Now, what I want to explain to you is, if you want to listen, you've got your phone going.
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Now, you're under arrest in relation to incitement.
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Yeah, but you're not obliged to say I do anything,
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but anything you say I do may be given in evidence.
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I had an ultrasound in an hour because I'm pregnant.
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in relation to a lockdown protest you put on for Saturday.
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Yeah, and I wasn't breaking any laws by doing that.
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That's why I'm arresting you, in relation to incitement.
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That's Victoria, Australia, one of the freest places in the world,
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very much like Canada, a member of the Five Eyes Security Group.
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That's Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, and the US.
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Australia, who fought by our side in two world wars, Korea and elsewhere.
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And Victoria has the toughest lockdown laws around.
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And on Saturday, he got in his car and he went to a protest against the lockdown.
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Now, to even be able to do that, he had to fill out forms and get permits
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because they literally have check stops on the road where they demand your papers.
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Well, he had filled out all the correct paperwork.
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So they let him through grudgingly at the protest himself.
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He was there to report on it, just like the mainstream media from Australia did,
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including legacy media like Channel 7 and Channel 9, as they were called.
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He's done a lot of videos, not just for us, but for Tommy Robinson's news channel and on his own.
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I don't know if you recall, but Avi did some amazing work under difficult conditions for us a year ago in Hong Kong.
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I'll come back to the Australia story in a moment.
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But remember when we sent Avi to Hong Kong to do Hong Kong reports?
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We're here at Wampo Station, one of many little protests that have broken out across the city.
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We've got word that there's a bigger gathering at a local police station.
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Tomorrow there is a mass protest in Hong Kong, which is organised.
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And they're expecting up to half a million people there.
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This is just an ordinary night here in Hong Kong and one of many across the city where people are just spontaneously gathering.
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So what we've got here is you've got hundreds of police in full riot gear,
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looking like they're in formation, getting ready to move on the crowds.
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And this is crowds of, you know, people literally wearing protective gear.
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I haven't seen any violence or intimidation or anything that would require police responding with such brute.
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So you can see how they're, how they're taking, they're taking over an entire block.
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You've got, if you look down there, you've got massive police presence surrounding this area.
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It is like, you can feel like it's almost an invasion about to happen.
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It's as if the crowds have doubled or quadrupled in minutes.
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What's interesting to note is that whilst they're trying to hold up, take the traffic down and block the cars, they never get violent.
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So if a driver really pushes his way through a crowd, they let him through.
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And I've noticed that each time now, I only imagine over the next half an hour, they're going to block the road off.
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I think my favorite moment from his entire trip to Hong Kong, when he came across this guy and asked, do you have any advice for Donald Trump?
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This video clip has been seen probably 20 million times in different formats.
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What's your message to, have you seen Donald Trump?
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Avi later bumped into that guy who said he was a bit of a celebrity from that clip.
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Anyways, Avi is courageous and he is willing to stare down the police, the communist Chinese police in Hong Kong.
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But they never grabbed him, threw him to the ground and arrested him like they did on Saturday in Melbourne, Australia.
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So maybe get yourself a cup of coffee or tea and watch this.
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Avi is such a consummate storyteller, but it's not just a story he tells.
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He's more like a litigator putting a case to a jury.
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I want you to see it in its entirety rather than me just telling you about it.
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Watch this video by Avi that we put up online yesterday.
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It already has more than a quarter million views.
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I want to start this report by firstly thanking everyone for all the love and support you've shown since the footage of my unprovoked and violent arrest on Saturday was released.
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And an extra special thanks to the over 10,000 people who have already signed my petition.
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If you haven't signed it, I'm sure, after watching this report, you're going to want to.
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So when you're done, head over to StandWithAvi.com and sign and share my petition demanding an end to the Victorian police state that detains journalists for doing our job.
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This report is going to show you what really happened on Saturday from the moment I head to the protest.
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It exposes how police are abusing their new state of emergency powers and even worse, how the mainstream media is helping them get away with it.
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Watch it from the beginning to the end and then share it far and wide.
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This is one of the protests that I actually have no idea how it's going to end today.
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We're now driving to the Freedom Day rally, the anti-lockdown protest that has been banned in Melbourne.
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You've seen over the past week, we've seen Victoria police heavy-handedly kicking in doors, arresting pregnant women in their homes in an effort to stop this rally from happening today.
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Police warn that the entrances into the city are going to be blocked, so we're expecting probably a roadblock here.
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I'm going to take you all the way into the city and then to the protest and we're going to report on what's actually happening there because we know that the mainstream media is not going to give you the truth.
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This is Dictator Dan speaking right now, live on the way.
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They arrested her in front of her children and dragged her out of her home in cuffs.
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For two active cases, there's over 100,000 people who live in Ballarat.
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The chances of her protest causing an outbreak, having any sort of risk, is near to none.
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The crazy thing is during Black Lives Matter, they allowed those protests to happen where the threat was far more real at the time.
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Apparently, COVID Compliance Checks stands for, is a euphemism for, shutting down free protest.
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Three in the car and they're filming is the problem.
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Internet publishing and broadcasting for news media purposes.
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And our job today is to cover what is happening in the CBD.
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We're going to ask you to part there so we can have a try.
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Okay, so we're starting at the Shrine and then we're following it through to Parliament wherever
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That's what it says on the permit as per the regulation.
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Basically, Channel 9, Channel 7, they're all coming here.
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Okay, I'm just asking because you seem to not understand what the media does.
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We're going to cover the events in the CBD and the roadblocks and everything that was announced.
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In our work, you've got to stay very, very carefully within the guidelines because unlike the mainstream
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media, I highly doubt they're doing this to the mainstream media.
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The world is very interested to see how they're going to react to media covering what's happening
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This is a crucial moment because police pulled us over.
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They didn't want me to go in, but I provided all the required legal documentation.
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And in his words, they checked our credentials and were all right to go.
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From here, we head straight to the Shrine of Remembrance where the protests were planned to start.
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I began doing my job just like any of the other journalists there.
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And just like the other journalists there, I followed the protesters as they marched
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Over the next few days, I'll release a lot more of what happened on the march.
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I mean, like the stuff that you won't see in the mainstream media.
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But this report, I want to focus on how the police behaved as they trapped the protesters
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So there's been numerous, quite intense, heavy-handed arrests here today.
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We walked around for, there was probably a good two hours where there was no arrests, no
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The bloke marched up to me while I was doing a piece to camera.
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You can actually hear me laugh because I seriously thought he was joking.
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If you watched my content before, you'll know that sometimes cops walk up to me and banter
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You know, I guess they like my work or they appreciate it or they find it funny or they
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But I quickly realised that this power-hungry commander was not bantering.
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This bloke here is not here for any purposes or reasons.
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But this guy here is going to be placed under arrest right now.
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But what they didn't realise is I was still mic'd up
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and was recording everything they were about to say.
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and it was checked as I came in here by Victoria Police.
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You haven't told me how I've hindered police at all.
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So, they had to make up a hindering allegation.
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Only, there's one problem which you all witnessed.
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But the arresting officer then goes off and talks
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Why didn't you think they did this with Black Lives Matter?
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It was illegal to protest in Black Lives Matter, mate.
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I just want to understand why there's such a heavy-handed response
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The government has given these unprecedented powers
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to a pack of power-hungry people who don't actually care.
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Then suddenly I noticed, when we were standing there,
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a police officer from the police media unit walking by.
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How do you feel about them arresting somebody, a journalist?
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So I don't understand how they're in Victoria, in Melbourne,
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And a few minutes later, the arresting officer returns.
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Ah, so I'm just going to give you a caution, all right?
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Before we continue, I must inform you don't have to say or do anything.
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If anything you say or do, maybe give me an evidence to understand that.
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Um, to hinder, you're between our police lines.
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Our four-year-old commander has asked you to move,
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He barges in as I'm doing a piece to camera, pointing,
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going, this bloke is not here for purposeful reasons.
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Did anyone hear one time him asking me to move?
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I was there to report what was happening on the ground.
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He doesn't like the fact that I'm holding them accountable.
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Numerous, quite intense, heavy-handed arrests here today.
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Um, we walked around for, there was probably a good, uh, two hours
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Just like you, he's not here for any purposeful reasons.
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You're getting released with inquiries pending.
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And then, but I'm going to give you a direction to move on, all right?
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So you're not allowed in the Albert Park Precinct for the next 24 hours.
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Excuse me, media, police media unit, excuse me.
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Police media unit, I'm getting a direction as a journalist to move on from an event of
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Are you okay as the police media unit with this direction?
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So you need to listen to the police media unit.
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And then after you've been released, after your arrest, I'll have a chat to you.
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Do you understand that 24 hours and you understand the area?
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And if you come back, it'll be a continuation of the...
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So you may get a ticket or you may get arrested again.
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So just to quickly unpack that, they allege I was hindering police, which I can easily
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And they're using that as a basis of their move on order, which means I haven't committed
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But now they've issued me with this move on order on a false pretense.
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Now, if I disobey that order, I'm committing a crime.
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In summary, they want to remove a journalist who is critical of the state issuing unchecked
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Mate, you just need to do what you've been told.
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So if they tell you you're in the way they're trying to do their job...
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My point is, my one question that I have for you is as the media unit, the police media
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unit, do you think it's okay in Victoria that a journalist was arrested, let go straight
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away, I had all the permits, I told them I had the permits, I was arrested and then
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given a move on direction from an event of obvious public interest.
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The police and if you've got a complaint to make, you need to go through the complaints
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I'm happy to chat to you further about it, but just not at the moment.
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But we're in a country where there's freedom of press.
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There's freedom of press and you should hold that dear.
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Now, as a journalist, I was arrested in front of everyone.
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I was arrested, thrown to the ground with my permit in my pocket.
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I showed the police before coming in here and then I was given a move on order.
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That's why I need you to sign and share the petition at StandWithAvi.com.
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I head towards my camera guys who were waiting for me so we could leave together as we did.
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When I noticed that they were standing where a couple of journalists who had actually seen me under arrest.
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And I thought I'd take the opportunity to ask them how they felt about my treatment.
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And there was a guy called Paul Dowsley who has more than 25 years under his belt with Channel 7 News.
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I just happened to be standing exactly where my camera guys were waiting for me.
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See, I didn't get that caution and they threw me onto the ground.
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Do you think it's cool that they're throwing journalists down on the ground?
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So they claim that I breached that and then the footage is hectic of throwing me onto the ground based on that.
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Sir, can you please put your mask on while you're near me?
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Are you allowed to film as a journalist without your mask on?
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He's doing a bit of a journalist and they've got their face masks on.
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When they interview, they don't have their face masks on.
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Have you ever seen in Victoria a journalist thrown to the ground doing his job, obviously
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Have you ever seen that in Victoria as a journalist?
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I don't want to comment on something I haven't seen, sir.
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I offered to take a shot to him around the corner, but he didn't want to come.
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But a junior journalist pretending he didn't see what happened or even the cops abusing
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What bothered me was the fact that a very experienced journalist didn't seem interested
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Arresting a fellow journalist is kind of a big story.
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What I didn't realize is until I was reviewing the footage is that my cameraman just happened
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to capture the journalist talking between themselves before I got there.
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Have a listen to what Paul Dowsley was saying off camera.
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He told me to go stand next to the police meeting.
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Paul Dowsley doesn't mince his words when it comes to describing the police there on
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Now, it's clear that Paul knew exactly what happened to me and that police in general
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were out of control at the protest on the weekend.
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The seasoned journalist didn't feel the need to tell the truth in his report on 7 News
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This is exactly why no one can trust the mainstream media.
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Because when they think there's no camera, they tell a completely different story.
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But I guess I can't go too hard on Paul because, after all, who wants to pay the price of holding
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the state accountable, that night, after not being charged with any crime, not even being
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fined, I got a visit in a clear attempt of intimidation.
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Are you going to the journalist on Channel 7, Channel 9?
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Are you going to their house tonight to compliance check?
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If their name's on our list because they were processed for hindering, then yes, we will
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And the world's seen exactly like the first 10 seconds of the arrest.
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I've got everything from the moment that you guys let me into the rally, checked all my
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You're coming to my house with my kids in the middle of the night when I have never not
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So, you can take me off your list because you're not welcome at my house to do a compliance
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If we've got information that suggests that you're acting in properly...
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Police have crossed the line and I need your help to fight back.
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So, please, again, sign and share the petition at StandWithAvi.com because together we can
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I don't need Paul Dowsley or any other fake news journalists.
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I need you to stand with me and to share the truth.
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Well, thank you for watching that entire video.
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Not only was it gripping, was it shocking, but it was very well done.
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And I have to say, I don't think one in a hundred people would have the composure and
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the cool to be slammed onto the ground by a bunch of cops and not to swear, not to shout,
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not to insult, not to object, not even to raise the register of his voice just to say,
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I certainly wouldn't have been able to do that.
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It got crazier, as you saw, when they went to his house afterwards.
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Well, the thing is, Avi's joined Rebel News now.
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Well, unfortunately, we've become used to fighting back against an Antifa mob and even
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You saw how we were there for David Menzies last week.
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Brampton's finest arresting a journalist for trying to ask questions of the mayor.
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Peel Regional Police pulling their men off of a mass shooting at the cemetery.
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There's a different standard for the Trespass Act in public property.
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Take it up a proper way instead of coming up here.
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Why are you listening to a hand-scrawled note that's not even served?
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I could verbally ask you or tell you that you're not allowed on the property.
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If I didn't have the right to be here, he has the right to be here.
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Not when an agent of the property has asked you to not.
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You're confusing private property with public property.
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Four cars and all you cops pulled off the shooting file.
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David was jammed in the back of a police car and given a $65 trespass ticket.
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And it was all based on a junk trespass notice by a thin-skinned mayor.
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We defended David, and we will defend him all the way to the Supreme Court.
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Avi is doing important journalism for us here at Rebel News and for our viewers around the world.
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He's telling stories about Melbourne to other people in Melbourne, to Australians who don't know how bad it is in their own country.
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Because, as you saw, the legacy media journalists are afraid to even tell what they themselves think and experience.
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But he's also there to fight for Australian freedoms.
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And in a way, fighting for freedom in Australia isn't just about him himself and about other Australians.
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I think it's part of the entire English-speaking world, the entire free world, fighting back against the tyranny that has sneaked in like a stowaway along with the pandemic policies.
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We all said, yes, we accept emergency government powers to get through this public health crisis.
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Well, two weeks looks like it's going to turn into two years pretty quick.
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The emergency powers, once granted, don't seem easy to take back.
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In New Zealand, they actually postponed the election.
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I'm terrified that they may do the same here in Canada.
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Well, you tell me who's crazy when the police slam a reporter on the ground in Melbourne and force a mask on people physically.
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And I see the role of the rebel here in Canada, where our base is, but also around the world.
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It's to tell stories about freedom, but also, occasionally, where appropriate, to actually fight for freedom, too.
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And we're going to do that for Avi in Melbourne.
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If you want to sign our petition, go to StandWithAvi.com.
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And in the days and weeks ahead, when we fight back for Avi and for ourselves, and in so doing for all Australians,
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Stay with us. I'll have the man on in a moment himself.
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What does that mean, that Avi didn't have any purposeful reason for being there?
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He had whatever reason he wanted, whatever purposes he chose.
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We don't need our purposes approved by a police state.
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He was doing journalism in an event of great public interest.
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And joining us now via Skype from Melbourne, Australia, is our newest teammate, Avi Yamini.
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We've got to know you from the UK, covering Tommy Robinson's travails together.
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I tell you, it's so nice to have you work with Rebel News.
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And, you know, the first project I've done now, I feel like I fit right in.
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And the team works so well together that, you know, from the minute that I was in custody,
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you were, I don't even know what time it was for you there in Canada,
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but you were talking to Rhonda and organizing things.
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Like, by the time I got out, which wasn't, I wasn't in there for that long.
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And you'd already, I spoke to you almost immediately.
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And you'd, you were up to date and you were ahead taking care of the situation.
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So it's really, it's really exciting to be on this team now.
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Well, it's nice of you to say the time zone is very difficult.
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Because, you know, when you're going to bed, we're waking up and vice versa.
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And you are in, I believe, the city of Melbourne, which is a wonderful city I had the pleasure of visiting.
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I think it is actually the most locked down, most civil liberties abused city in the Western world.
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I'm not going to say in the whole world, because there's probably some places in North Korea that are in the world.
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Well, when you look at lockdown, when you look at lockdown and even compare it to China,
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So when it comes to dealing with COVID-19, it is certainly the most restricted in the world.
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You know what, the way you were treated there reminds me of when you went to Hong Kong.
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And I really think that was a shining moment for you when you did accountability journalism
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and told the story of the Hong Kong democracy protesters around the world with a sense of humor.
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And you were courageous in the face of their riot police.
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I have to say, in all of your reports, I never saw Hong Kong riot police do what was done to you in Melbourne.
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But I think that the Melbourne police are just as rough as the Hong Kong police.
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I know that people aren't sent away to gulags in Melbourne yet.
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But the police work was just as brutal as anything you showed from Hong Kong.
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Well, I've been to protests all around the world, and the only other place that I can compare it to, rightfully, is Hong Kong.
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But their tactics were very similar in the way they tried to pick out and trap person by person and targeting the media.
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But, like you said, even with all that, in Hong Kong, I'd never been tackled by, I don't know, what was it, six officers to the ground.
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Just, it was the most surreal, bizarre situation to be in here in Melbourne, Australia.
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In Hong Kong, I probably would have accepted it.
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But I'm glad that I just was able to capture it on camera so people can see what happens when you give such power to power-hungry people.
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And, you know, humans are not built to be given such power.
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I have all the respect in the world for police, but they have their role and they're meant to serve the community.
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The problem when you start giving them the state of emergency powers that allows them this full reign over the people and starts to give them this idea that they're somehow controlling the people instead of protecting the people.
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Even before, and obviously a lot of the footage that we captured there is still going to come.
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But even before, until the police tactics, when they came in, it was almost like they felt they were above the law.
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Now, most of the mainstream media, as you saw, were willing to accept that, but they just absolutely did not respect anybody's right of anything.
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Yeah, well, and that was perhaps the most telling part of your video, is you spoke to two mainstream media journalists from legacy stations, Channel 7, Channel 9, large, long-time TV stations in Australia.
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And when you spoke to them, when your camera was running, when you were talking to them, they said,
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But your cameraman just happened to catch them.
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And let me throw a clip to how they really felt about things, but wouldn't say on camera, wouldn't say in public, only by accident was this captured.
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He was like, you're in a place, I'm like, what if your officer over there, he told me to go stand next to a police meeting, you're not listening to me.
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You see legacy media journalists who know the true depth of the problem, who are personally outraged, angry, offended, but are biting their tongue and just towing the line.
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Personally, they know that there's deep trouble in Melbourne, but they won't breathe a peep of it in public.
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Like, that's their job is to report and warn the people, but they're not.
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And I went back to Paul Dowsley, for example, for Channel 7.
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I went back specifically to watch his report, hoping that he'd mentioned it, hoping that he said something about it, especially because it happened to him.
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But, you know, he expressed it in his direct language in a very Australian manner.
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I didn't expect him to use the same language, but to kind of paint that picture.
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But, no, the only picture he painted is that the protesters were just a bunch of crackpot, you know, low-class nutcases that were breaking the law by being there and protesting.
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And police were going hard on them, but he was kind of implying so they should, which was not really how he felt.
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And, you know, when I came across that footage during the editing and I'd seen it, I felt vindicated.
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Like, you see, I told you I was saying the truth.
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And it's the fact that you're unwilling to tell the world and to share the truth with the rest of the world.
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And it's scary because there are – I was having a conversation with people in the media here who don't go out on the street, who actually rely on the TV networks, the mainstream TV networks, to kind of get a sense of what's happening at these different events.
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But you see, all the images that they're seeing until we can go onto the streets, all the images that they're seeing across all the channels, from the state-run to the commercial ones, is this narrative that the police are fine and the government's fine and they're not overreaching?
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You know, the fact that the journalists are lying to themselves, and we've got the proof of that, you've got the proof of that, is just the most incredible thing.
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Well, listen, it's so great to have you as a rebel.
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I mean, just last week, our friend in Toronto, David Menzies, was arrested.
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He wasn't slammed to the ground, thank God, but he was stuffed in the back of a police car for a period of time, completely unnecessary.
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And like in your case, he didn't do anything that warranted an arrest.
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We believe in defending our journalists physically, if that's an issue.
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Now, we're not going to, you know, have a private security to defend you against the police.
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And from what I understand, there's no charges pending against you.
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But I think the other, the reverse could be true.
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I think what I saw happen to you and what the world saw happen to you, last I checked, your video's doing incredibly well.
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People all around the world are riveted by what they're seeing for the first time from Melbourne.
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I think you could have a claim against those police for a number of things.
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And again, we, 99% of the time, we stand with the police, we support the police, we like the police.
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But when they become political errand boys, smashing the enemies of the state for partisan reasons, we have to fight back.
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And I, you know, we'll have to talk more about this later.
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But I see suing the police for assault, battery, they came around your house later in a harassing way.
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I think that, frankly, you wouldn't just be doing yourself a favor by suing.
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You would be setting down a marker that all people in your state of Victoria, the big state in Australia.
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I think it would be the beginning of a pushback, people reclaiming their civil liberties.
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We'd love to help you with that if that's something you're interested in doing.
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I think it's, I think here everybody's looking for somebody to do something about it because everyone's feeling helpless.
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And, you know, it has to end because if they could do that so brazenly in front of people and, you know, he knew that I was being filmed.
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So if they're willing to do that to me in front of a camera, then what are they going to do to the next person?
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And where are our basic, most fundamental rights?
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I'm going just like I was thinking about it today, thinking imagine anybody else acted that way.
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If a group of boys went and knocked somebody down like that who was just working, went up to a journalist.
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But they weren't, they weren't holding a badge.
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But in exactly the same circumstances, they would be put in jail.
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I'm not asking for the police to be put in jail.
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I'm asking for them to apply that kind of force where it belongs.
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The ironic thing here is that in the state of Victoria, gang, youth gangs have run riot.
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I didn't even know we had that many critical response units.
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But to protect citizens and civilians, not attack journalists.
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And I'm humbled by the amount of support we've been getting from all the rebel subscribers
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that have been writing to me, asking how they can help.
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I'd say we're in this together for the pushback.
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But other than that, I tell you, you're an integral part of our team here.
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We're going to do our best to work with you to defend your right to practice journalism
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And we do that often by crowdfunding legal actions.
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It would not surprise me if we were able to come up with a solution even this week.
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We have to let not just the Victoria Police, but everyone in the state of Victoria,
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everyone in Australia, and everyone in the free world, that you cannot allow politicians
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Avi Yamini of Melbourne, Australia, the newest rebel journalist.
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One day after joining the team, he was arrested.
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And we're going to work with Avi to get a little justice.
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He reminds me in some ways of our mutual friend, Tommy Robinson.
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And I think we're going to revive our Australian viewership.
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Remember, we had a character called Mark Latham who did videos for us from Australia for a while.
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It's great to have feet on the ground in Australia again.
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And I think we're going to fight for freedom there, not just for Avi, but for a lot of other people too.
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We've got tons of new reporters here in Canada.
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Drea Humphrey doing a great job out there in Vancouver.
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Here at our Toronto World Headquarters, Andrew Trapados coming on TV from time to time more and more often.
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I feel really good about how Rebel News is doing.
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Even our chairman of the board, of our advisory board, Raheel Raza, doing great videos.
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I feel like we're doing well and it's important that we do well because these are dangerous days for us and for the world.