Shocking Encounters with Antifa： Rebel News In Action
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The best of the Rebel's coverage of Antifa and the protests in Washington, D.C. on July 22, 2019. Today's special episode features Ezra Levenoran and Anna Slats covering the second day of the George Floyd protests and Antifa riots.
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Hey, today's show is a great one, but boy, I wish you had the video for it.
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It's the best of the Rebels' coverage of Antifa.
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To get the video version of the podcast, simply go to rebelnews.com and become a premium subscriber.
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Tonight, a very special episode, the best of the Rebel, and our coverage of Antifa.
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It's July 22nd, 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 is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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They were very active in Europe and in the U.K., but in North America, they weren't really a force.
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We've all heard of Black Lives Matter and I don't know more.
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Well, 2020 was the year of Antifa riots, and today's special Best of the Rebel shows our coverage of Antifa.
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I am covering the second day of George Floyd protests and Antifa riots.
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Today, police gave protesters three minutes between warnings, and on the third warning, they advanced extremely fast.
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They started firing rubber bullets, tear gas, and flash bombs into the crowd at very, very close range,
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and they have been advancing ever since, rushing the crowd, grabbing whoever they can, arresting them.
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In quite brutal ways, these were just even standard buys, I think, were caught up in it, even media.
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Yeah, and as you can see, the protesters are just not relenting.
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They are continuing to keep their hands raised, and they have been absorbing all of the shocks.
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It's Anna Slats, and I'm here in Washington, D.C. where I have been covering the George Floyd protests
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and antifa riots for rebel news i just wanted to go over some of my thoughts because last night was
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the first night i was here on the ground uh and it was crazy to say the least but when the night
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started it was very peaceful and i have been trying to focus on why such a peaceful coherent
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considerate demonstration of anger devolved into violence and destruction and fires and smashed
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windows and businesses being looted and i want to say that that occurred that transition from peace
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to chaos occurred when a largely white group of antifa protesters began to call the shots in the
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demonstration around 6 p.m when the black lives matter protesters were marching on the capitol
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it was all very peaceful it was very well put together people were being taken care of given
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food given water given medical treatment if they needed it and the air was positive it was upbeat
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it was people expressing themselves in the democratic way that they have the ability to express themselves
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that they have the right to express themselves and that is through a peaceful demonstration a peaceful
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protest expressing their anger at the treatment of african americans in the united states it was not
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until 10 pm that things started to devolve into chaos and that is when the antifa protesters showed up
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and they began setting fires they began burning buildings they began defacing war memorials i'm actually
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just outside of one right now that's being taken care of by the police there was such a distinct
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difference between the approaches of black lives matter and antifa that much of it i caught right
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on film people being told by the black lives matter protesters stop throwing things at the police stop
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interacting with the police this is going to lead to more violence this is going to lead to more innocent
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people people getting hurt and of course that would disproportionately impact the african americans that
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were in the protest the white antifa protesters continued and persisted to destroy to throw bottles at
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the police to throw bottles at the police cars to throw rocks and stones and it was an escalation a very steady
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escalation the police began to respond with more and more violence of their own more flash grenades
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more pepper spray more batons and even someone got a rubber bullet uh he was standing right next to me
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and he got hit with a rubber bullet i want you to take a look at the footage and i want you to ask
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yourself if if you can see the difference between the approaches of black lives matter who were out there
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protesting the the wrongful death of george floyd and the approach of antifa who were destroying
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needlessly who were not listening to the black lives matter protesters who were meant to be leading
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the demonstration and who were just causing chaos for absolutely no reason the general sentiment here
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in washington dc is that these protests are going to continue you can see to both sides of me behind me
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that there are uh businesses that are putting plywood up they are covering their windows they're
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covering their doors because the general sense here is that it's going to escalate the riots are going
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to escalate in the same way that they did in oakland and atlanta and in minneapolis i'm going to be on
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the ground tonight just like last night bringing you coverage right from the front lines this has been
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anna slats reporting live from washington dc for rebel news i'm here in innis vale today where a protest
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is planned a black lives matter protest backed by antifa as they tend to be across north america the
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community here in innis vale is anxious they're concerned and they're worried that one violence
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could break out as it tends to do in edmonton they smashed the window of a cop car left graffiti
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everywhere some businesses just on the drive in here we've seen that their windows are all shuttered
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they have no idea how to respond to this because it's bullying at the end of the day these folks are
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coming in from large cities to tell the people of innisfail that they are racist that's obviously
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not true i've spoken with the minority groups here in innisfail and they've told me that they love it
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here the people are the nicest people that they've ever met and they've never once experienced racism
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but that's not going to stop the radicals with black lives matter to come into this community
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to intimidate them and try to re-educate them are you from innisfail i'm not i'm from calgary okay drove
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drove in for the uh party absolutely okay could you give me an example of police brutality in innisfail
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um i'm actually not going to talk to any media today i'm sorry that's just not something there's
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lots of media and people talking to media over there um as far as my quote on anything i'm not
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going to give one you're you're at a protest what's your point here if not to spread your message i'm here
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to show support that's all to stop police brutality in the town of innisfail with 7 000 people to stop
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police brutality in general are you here to support the rally yes okay would you be able to give me
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any examples of uh you racist piece of get the out of here you are you i'm not a nazi
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do you have an example of of racism or police brutality here in innisfail yeah i don't know
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i i don't know if anything's happened in innisfail but i do know there were threats against
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a small little group are you okay with that i really don't care it's just you that has a stick
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up with their butt i've lived here for almost 22 years now and i haven't seen any i've seen shitty
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people white people i've never seen racism no but so like i've i've lived in innisfail my entire life
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or like just west of town and then recently i've lived in town now i've never seen racism i have a
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lot of i probably know 50 syrian refugees about well they're from syria then they went to lebanon
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now they're in canada but they've been here for about two years some longer some a bit shorter one
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guy worked at tim hortons for about a year and a half and i've asked him like have you ever experienced
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racism he's like no he's like i've never yeah his first name is muhammad and he's never experienced
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racism he's like i've met shitty people but like every service job you have shitty people he's like
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there's shitty white people there's shitty black people what do you think that what do you think the
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reason is for these uh these radicals to come into this community to re-educate you why why did they
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pick innisfail uh well britney beauvais she made a post on facebook about doing the protest and then
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they're like i forget exactly what happened like it got denied or something yeah there's a lot of
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backlash she cancelled yeah and then and then it got trending on twitter now everyone's here and i'm
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just like wondering like there's quite an old population in in innisfail here like there's an old folks home
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on the south end of town like why are we exposing everyone to uh covert right now like it is a
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problem you think it's selfish uh maybe there's an argument for it to be selfish and unselfish i think
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there's a lot of police brutality there's seen a lot of you're in innisfail though have you seen an
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example of police brutality honestly i have not not no no i'm not kind of project i'm just here because
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yeah this is there this is this is their town i'm allowed to come here anytime
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what yeah yeah you don't have to hear it could you explain what brought you here i'm my name's kian
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from with whom i'm from calgary i'm from calgary too nice to meet you yeah so you're telling me i'm not
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allowed to come here because he lives here i didn't say that yeah you just said it like few minutes ago
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no i was just wondering why you're saying why did you pick why did you pick innisfail why did you pick
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because we can because you can yeah you came here to re-educate these people specifically canada
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anywhere i want to how are you educating other people to assert that black lives matter like that's
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not the message here that's not that's not what people are saying here they're saying that people
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they're saying that people here in innisfail are specifically racist i haven't heard any
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you from are you from innisfail i'm not giving you any information i'm sure you're not from
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innisfail or else you wouldn't be protesting here if you are against state repression you are antifa
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we are not an organization we do not have a leader
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we have an ideology that says wherever fascism raises its head we will be there to confront it
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what brings you out here sir to this uh protest
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it's our land i i couldn't hear you you just sounded concealed with your land boss yeah you
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haven't paid my rent yet oh are you antifa security
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what's with your john wayne hat oh i think it's after john wayne stupid
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yeah how you doing sir oh why are you telling me to get the
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effort don't approach me don't do stay six feet away from me that's not six feet get away sir
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it's two meters how dare you use the imperial system get the away from me
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why why do i have to get away from you this is a public sidewalk like you very much
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you just go that's why wait really how am i a fascist exactly my grandfather spent five and a half years
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in the world war ii fighting the nazis right you're not your grandfather well yeah that is true but
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what did your grandfather do to fight fascism get you moron is that how you respond to a question
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with profanity you can't you can't articulate yourself sir
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his grandfather was probably hiding under the bed so guys how would you rank this antifa rally so far man
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i don't know it seems a little low energy though i mean i'm glad there's no violence but um
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i'm sorry man what is the welders trying to say to you there the what the man in the welding
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magazine uh mask it's my boyfriend he has a lot to say is he telling you not to talk to me no i'm
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just saying that she needs to put on her mask on oh i can barely hear you through all the layers of ppe
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sir that's okay it's all right what brings you out here you really gee how'd you know i was coming
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here that's that's that's pretty impressive surveillance yeah it's true you wear a lot of
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badges uh no smoking uh let's see canada 150 chew on this be vaccine educated black lives remember
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do you know what that's that's a very profound uh point ma'am because i don't see many black people
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here at all i think i see one person why is that why aren't the why aren't members of the black
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community here because this is not a black lives matter event it's it's a grassroots event
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hi ma'am what brings you out to this uh protest
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no no no you're a fool did you hear me i'm sorry what brings you out to this protest i'm not going
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to give your trashy rag a talking piece off you are a cartoon my wow that that seemed like
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a cartoon keep your distance from me keep your distance from me can't you articulate your point
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not to you i'll happily talk here talk to you online you can message the event page on one of
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the organizers why would you want to talk online we're right here these people i don't want you near me
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and i don't like your organization are you antifa i'm anti-fascist why do you use
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are you fascist why do you use fascist tactics and claim to be antifa you use a tactic you don't know
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who i am why are your comrades in the u.s burning down black mom pub why do you know who i am you don't
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know who i am why did you say my comrades well that's what the press release said you're standing
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in solidarity with your usa comrades we're in solidarity with people being arrested right
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now in the states seeing what happens how does burning down mom pop black businesses stop stop
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putting your position on me i'm asking a question i'm not making an opinion you keep saying you you
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say you as you as if you know who i am you don't know who i am i'm doing something okay fair enough how
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do american anti-fascist members burning down mom pa black businesses how does that bring about social
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justice what the fuck does that have to do with anything who am i you don't know who i am you
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keep asking me a question as if i'm related to them i'm not related to them you have an opinion don't
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you i have an opinion i have opinion that fascists like you are the enemy that makes me a fascist man
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are you with these guys no i'm just a journalist covering this actually you're with rebel media
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yeah we know their history so that means it's you know it's kind of funny my grandfather spent five
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and a half years fighting the nazis in the second world war mine too both thank you for your service
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both of my sides of the family escaped the nazis i'm jewish i'm married to a jewish woman so how does
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that's a joke that's interesting oh yeah i know a black guy too
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i'm in kingston because as you can see behind me there is a anti-colonialism protest it's kind of
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funny the motto of kingston ontario is where history and innovation thrive but it seems that
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the people here are keen on cancelling history such is our cancel culture as a matter of fact you can
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see a big red poster it says make history topple colonialism and it's showing a statue being toppled
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now i would say that's a major job here if that's what the plan is today to actually tear down
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this statue but i have noticed that throughout the crowd they are distributing eggs and um oh excuse
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me ma'am oh why is that what makes me a racist man okay we know your own words because i just
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don't touch me do not touch me you do not touch the camera you said we're racist why is that
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and use a lot of bad language not very lady like language i must say i'm not a way to get out of
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here okay then what about yourself ma'am you were saying something as well i believe i said that i
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thought your your speech was offensive and inaccurate oh it was oh what did i get wrong
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kingston's motto is not where history innovations do you believe that removing a statue removes history
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what would you call it i would say that we're no longer celebrating a racist creep the history doesn't
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time to go what what what are you uh pouring water okay excuse me time to go time to go
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time to go as you can see these people it's a park it's a public park do not push us time to go do
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not push us we're making our way out okay good get your boy out get your boy out we're gonna get egged
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get out what you're gonna threaten me by throwing an egg at me sir don't get out of here it's a public
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park it's come on whoa let's move over oh you're a tough guy behind that mask aren't you get out oh and
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you too get out huh is this this is your idea let's go get your boy we're gonna lose that camera kid
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we're gonna lose it go go this is hey don't touch him what are you gonna do what am i gonna do yeah let's go
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what makes us a racist what makes us a racist you can't even articulate yourself okay so as you saw
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we had gatorade splashed on our bodies and our equipment we were pushed we were shoved i took a
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bottle off my forehead and you might be wondering in the aftermath just who was that mass man well you
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know what folks we've got some good news we know his name now the alaya the alleged assailant is 30
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year old robert warner just a few days ago police charged uh mr warner and the charges are assault with
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a weapon and mischief slash obstruct property under five thousand dollars he was later released on
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conditions and he is scheduled to appear in court at a later date uh i somehow think mr warner without
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his mask on and without 200 antifa types surrounding him isn't going to demonstrate the kind of bravado he
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demonstrated in the park that day well it's not bravado it was outright bullying it was a mob reacting
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to a couple of individuals practicing journalism
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give me a hug i love you i love you i love you don't run away from love don't run away from love
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don't run away from love don't run away from love
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yeah what are you what's your purpose here i'm a cameraman are you are you gonna stop me instead of
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them trying to block me i'm asking you i don't have to provide you anything okay just like they don't
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have to provide anything to you i'm not harassing them they're following me can you please stop no just
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came here to see what's going on you guys are getting violent right away we evolved through love
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and diversity that's what we do we evolve through love and diversity that's what we do we evolve
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through love and diversity listen to the chance folks welcome to john toristrano hey get off me
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i will trespass you for non-compliance i need you to stay back so this isn't probably the best time to be
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coming here and doing this i understand what you're trying to do so for today yeah city hall
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security and their staff they're they're trespassing you okay so we're gonna have to
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our purpose is to do journalism and we're going to make this a fight for civil liberties we shouldn't
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have to do we shouldn't have to hire all these security and lawyers but we're not going to concede
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that we can be kicked off city hall we don't live in iran or china we don't we don't clear out from
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city hall because some cop tells us to so i don't want to come across as threatening to the police
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but what happened yesterday when our people were driven out of the public square by the police will
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never happen again on my watch with this company but we're just going to be so compliant with the law
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that we're going to force the government to reveal itself are they really just trying to get rid of
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us because they don't like the cut of our jib if so that's illegal that's unconstitutional so that's
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what's happening i'm over talking let's go let's go down there and do it
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well folks we are at literally the scene of the crime this is the illegal encampment
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it's supposedly a circle it's not quite geometrically correct but this is where we were yesterday
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and evidently there's um there's a phony baloney rule that i think people and even media are allowed
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to be outside the circle but we can't venture inside the circle now here come the umbrellas you can tell
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there's not a raindrop in the air today it's a nice sunny day in toronto so this is going to be to
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attempt to block our cameras so you know we can't capture their crimes on video it's a typical antifa
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101 tactic in massaging the narrative uh to their liking also as you can see as i alluded to earlier
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we got a couple of porta potties established by the city so not only are the police coming in and john
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tory saying you cannot be here it is illegal they are making these squatters have a comfortable place
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to be it should also be noted that despite this illegal occupation uh there is 0.0 um police presence
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and then we have one solitary security guard there notably he is behind a steel wall of sorts a temporary
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steel fencing uh very funny that isn't it folks the left is is typically against uh building walls so
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that a country can um maintain its sovereignty in terms of illegal aliens coming to the country but
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when they are threatened at city hall uh walls are very effective indeed now as you can see off camera
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too this is where they start shoving umbrellas and whatnot into our faces and they start complaining
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don't touch me and that this is an assault on them uh here's this guy as you can see i don't know what
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he's got they don't want free speech they don't want freedom of the press they don't want um freedom
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of expression they want tyranny they oh oh is that right what's the truth ma'am
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see again you ask them a question and they can't answer it they respond with vulgarity
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a conversation when people are against you they don't want anyone to hear the true story well
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maybe ma'am if you put your umbrella down um by the way why is it that you people don't want your
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encampment filmed you people in the encampment ma'am this is an occupation oh it's an occupation
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okay well we're dealing with semantics right now you're on my land you're on my territories who are
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you colonizer can i see a deed please pardon me can i see the deed you don't need to see my deed
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do you know what the history is are you able to respond to a question without profanity are these
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your lands were you your original person of these lands are these your lands well i believe this is
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a public square ma'am do you know that these are not your lands does somebody come up into your home
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and take up your space does somebody come into your home and they can dictate how you run your household
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so what would you what would you like what would you like us to do off my land that's what i would
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like what about all these other people on your land why don't they protesting against you
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this is not public space this is anishinaabe territory i don't want to get into history i want
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to get into current events if you want to abolish the police ma'am who do we call when the bad guys
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harass people out the bad guys can get the out of here it's your people that did this have this
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mindset in here our people were peaceful people before they came here you know i think you're probably
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a nice lady if someone were to criminally harass you harm you who would you call if you abolish the police ma'am
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well i'm interviewing an umbrella again so like i said folks as you can see that is their main goal
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they have a big red and white sign that says abolish the police not defund the police well why are you
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getting in our way sir you know by the way this is this is another tactic folks they they walk an inch
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away from us and then they play the victim card you know oh oh here's silence don't touch me
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so anyways it's getting testy as you can see now where where and you'd think now you'd think with an
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illegal occupation like this there would be a police presence but mayor tory has called off the cops it
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would seem we are probably a four minute drive from police headquarters you know what's your purpose
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here my purpose here is to do uh some journalism all right so right now what you're doing is causing a
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disturbance with everybody here i need to ask you to leave okay what what have i done you're causing
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disturbance i need you to leave the property and what have i done causing disturbance sir i need you to leave
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the property you have been cautioned and i've i said it it is loud and clear you have the concaution i
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need you to leave the property i've been trespassing okay for causing disturbance
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hey is that that wacky tobacco that's legal now
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listen to your heart decolonize your mind what does that mean ma'am
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smells like a dead skunk in the middle of the road actually but uh
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it's a free country you guys we can do that if we want oh is that right is that your idea of freedom
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shutting down the media sir i thought i thought we weren't allowed inside your sacred circle sir we're
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outside of your sacred circle because you're disruptors how are we antagonizers i'm just
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standing here talking you're the one disrupting no i'm not you're disrupting by coming and going
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against what we believe which is to abolish the police how does that how does that help anyone how
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does that help any army so as you can see hey hey hey don't don't touch the equipment you punch the
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microphone you punch the mic i didn't do nothing wrong no if you my hand in front of your camera
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sir if you didn't do nothing wrong that means you did something wrong you use the double negative
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so so you can see the it's open season and uh you're the one that punched my microphone sir what
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that's vandalism so anyways so i'm not sure how much we're capturing folks but this is uh
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this is uh par for the course with these uh antifa wannabes you know
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i i think this is the definition of harassment you can't
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oh oh hi we've we've got another gender touch my elder your elder
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so again i'm not sure what they're trying to accomplish aside from making themselves look like
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infant how are you you told me my friend i don't know you look good sounds like we're all pretty
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sick aren't we get out of here we're all sick my friend get out of here man
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We've been separated from some members of our team.
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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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And our security did 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 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?
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They were saying that some of the words you guys were saying and using were antagonizing the crowd there.
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So, they physically could not have heard things.
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I proactively went to the security to ask for assistance.
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I was told I had to leave under the trespass and I said, what have I done?
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So, what I'm saying here is, and I'm happy to go alone or send David alone.
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The reason we brought seven people with us is because our journalists were threatened yesterday and I thought, I can't have our journalists being beat up.
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So, will you either allow me or hopefully walk with me so I stand in front of my city hall as a journalist and do a five-minute news report in front of my city hall, completely compliant with the law and separated by a band of blue steel from the protesters?
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So, right now, I've got to talk to the city hall security again.
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They advised me that they had trespassed you guys from the property.
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I think you could fix this by letting us go out.
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And I'm going to use my Section 2B charter, right, to report the news in my city.
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If the situation starts to explode, and security wants you to leave, then I'm going to have
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And my professional licensed security certainly aren't going to explode.
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But the law touches explosive people, not explosive incidents.
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And I'm not leaving because some guy explodes at me.
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The law also touches about breaching of the peace.
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If you want to take the position, officer, and I know you don't, that a peaceful, quiet
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news report on the town square is breaching the peace, that's a law that needs to be tested.
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And if you also want to call Colonel Sanders, he has about as much authority as these mall
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I'm going to do a news report on my town square where I pay taxes every day.
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Whether I do it with the cops, with the security, or by my lonesome, it's happening.
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They said that at 1234, they trespassed all of you guys.
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And that'll be, that'll go one of three ways, I think.
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One is I'll go by myself and I'll probably get attacked.
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The other is you come with me and I don't think they're going to lay a glove on you, but
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Oh, I don't want that to happen, but I am ready for that to happen.
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Because the only reason I'm here with 15 of my friends is because we were shooed away
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from the town square yesterday and thought the president of the company himself is going
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to come down and prove that in Toronto, the town square is a place where a journalist
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And if I get personally attacked, we need to know it.
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I'm going to do it whether or not you guys are there.
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I guess I did mention that to them and they don't launch you on the property right now.
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I mean, their opinion matters not at all to me.
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What I'm saying is why don't you shoot some footage from here and get what you can get
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here while we're standing here and make sure that you guys are safe right now.
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Because I'm a free citizen and that's my town hall.
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I'm not interested in playing legal games with mall cops, officer.
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So unless you have any last minute things to say, I am now going to walk with my bravest
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I hope you guys will just walk with me to the stairs.
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I'll do five minutes of journalism and then I'll call it a day.
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I thought that was a magnificent performance of, I guess, outdoor lawyering.
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You can already hear the moans from the sacred circle of the autonomous city.
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And we're being met with the mall cops, for lack of a better term.
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Corporate security, we're trespassing you from the property for causing disturbance.
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You're interfering with this peaceful demonstration.
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Let me just do my report and then I'll get out of here.
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But today, it's an encampment, a rather gross, urine-soaked encampment of protesters, rather incoherent.
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We sent reporters here yesterday to try and have a conversation with them, but it was not useful.
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Then mall security, I'm calling them mall security because that's what they are, told our people to leave.
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What disappointed me the most is that a Toronto city policeman said if we didn't leave, we would be charged under the trespass laws.
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Now, I contacted Aaron Rosenberg, our lawyer, and we went through the trespass laws very carefully.
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And he confirmed that there are certain grounds you have to violate before being trespassed.
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So today, this morning, we had a staff meeting going through those laws and we came back.
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Well, you saw the footage of the mini-riot that happened.
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And our seven private security guards were actually attacked.
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And I don't blame them for saying, we've got to get out of here.
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Luckily, four of Toronto's finest did finally come.
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And after some attempts at negotiation, I told them one of three things is going to happen.
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I'm going to come back down here myself alone and get beat up.
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I'm going to come back down here with their protection.
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I'm very glad it's ending without arrest, although the day's not done.
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What is an interesting story is how John Tory's Toronto has rolled out the red carpet for lawlessness
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and is cracking down on journalists peacefully doing their profession.
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But it's kind of like Diet Coke or free speech light, if you will.
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It's not the First Amendment like our American cousins have.
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We got our little five minutes, and then we get the bums rush.
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I'm not blaming the individual police officers.
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This is the bailiwick of John Tory and his spineless leadership in the city of Toronto.
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I regret that our private security took some punches.
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I have to say Toronto's police did the right thing in the end.
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I understand Toronto police wanting to negotiate, wanting to have a diplomatic solution,
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but that's not how it is between a bank robber and a bank teller.
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That's not how it is between a fireman and a fire.
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There's right and wrong, and there's lawful and unlawful.
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And committing acts of journalism in the public town square, that's lawful.
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If you want to help cover the costs of our seven private security, it's a big bill.
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Well, I hope you enjoyed that best of the rebel coverage of Antifa.
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I promise you this, you won't see that coverage on any other news channel.
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night and keep fighting for freedom.