SHOWDOWN： Rebel News takes on violent Antifa mob at Toronto City Hall
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Summary
Rebel News has been fighting for the right to report in the streets of Toronto, and the police have been doing all they can to make sure we don t do the same. But tonight, we turn the tables and push back.
Transcript
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And it involves us fighting back the best way we know how.
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I'll have a short introduction, and then I'll let you hear
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Tonight, all week, Rebel reporters have been attacked by violent mobs
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and then turned away by security guards and police.
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Well, tonight, we turn the tables and push back.
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It's June 26, and this is The Ezra LeVance 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,
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the why I publish it, is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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For a couple of days now, we've been telling you about an ongoing battle we've had
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Occasionally, we know things might get a little rough out there,
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so we don't mind hiring a security guard for a reporter.
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But these days, that means any time we step out into the public.
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Because, you see, in this mob mentality that has taken over the West,
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And Antifa types, well, they feel like they had the license to physically get violent.
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Wherever they look around the world, violence happens without impunity.
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In fact, it happens with the approval of at least half the political spectrum.
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And in Canada, well, the rebel is the most identifiable,
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It's almost like Antifa stop whatever they're doing to attack us,
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especially our brave Ontario reporter, David Menzies.
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Over the last week, we've seen a ramping up of this.
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We sent one security guard with him to Kingston.
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And each time, they were overwhelmed by protesters.
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And the worst moment was when a Toronto police officer said,
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if you try and report from City Hall, we will say you are trespassing,
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that you are causing a disturbance for merely upsetting the illegal squatting protesters.
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Seven lawyers, seven bodyguards, a lawyer, five cameramen, myself and David.
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And what we are going to show you tonight is the result of that visit.
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But in the end, I think it's one of the finest videos we've ever made here at Rebel News.
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I wanted to have this for you yesterday, but it was so complicated with the five different camera angles
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and then blurring out the faces of security so they won't be later attacked by Antifa.
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It was a painstaking edit that took us until now, and I didn't want to rush it.
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This video will only be available to you behind the paywall for now.
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We don't want to put it on YouTube on a Friday night.
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That's when things get lost in the news because people aren't paying attention.
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So you will have exclusive access to the video all weekend behind the paywall as a subscriber.
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On Monday morning, we'll release the video in a public way on YouTube for the world to see.
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And I hope you'll agree with me that it is a combination of reporting, commentary, activism,
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As I said to our team, it's one of the finest moments we've had at Rebel News, in my opinion,
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So instead of our usual show with a monologue and a guest,
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I present to you our story of fighting for freedom and how we did it in Toronto.
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Until then, on behalf of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, goodnight.
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Ideally, we're done in half an hour because nothing happened.
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What you're doing is causing a disturbance with everybody here.
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That in Toronto, the town square is a place where a journalist can go peacefully.
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Are you going to stop me instead of them trying to block me?
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Just like they don't have to provide anything to you.
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So this isn't probably the best time to be coming here and doing this.
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So for today, City Hall Security and their staff, they're trespassing you, okay?
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So we're going to have to escort you off the property.
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Our purpose, as I mentioned earlier today, is to do journalism.
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We're just going to be so compliant with the law that we're going to force the government
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Are they really just trying to get rid of us because they don't like the cut of our
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Aaron is coming with all sorts of legal precedents in hand, just in case, not if the protesters
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attack us, but if City Hall attacks us in real time.
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We're going to meet our security detail at Old City Hall and we'll walk across the street.
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But if the city and the police have other plans, we're as ready as we can be.
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We're here to assert not only our right as citizens, but we have a specific law called
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Ideally, we're done in half an hour because nothing happened.
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Well, you may recall, folks, that yesterday I went to Nathan Phelps Square.
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It has been commandeered by a group that's primarily composed of Indigenous and Black people.
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And evidently, we're not allowed to be on the square.
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It is like the Antifa autonomous city in Seattle, but it's even amped up a little more because
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it's right where the seat of government is here in the municipality of Toronto, Toronto City Hall.
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We were told that by police that if we didn't exit the square, we would be arrested and charged
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And yet they're turning a blind eye to the squatters.
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Not only that, folks, the city is aiding and enabling them by putting up porta-potties
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But we don't take no for an answer here at Rebel News.
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And I'm right now with the commander himself, Ezra Levent.
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What did you make of our experience yesterday, Ezra?
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I have my own show, but I let you do most of the field work in Ontario.
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But I saw you went to Kingston, Ontario on the weekend.
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The police were not there, and you were swarmed by Antifa.
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Our security guard did a good job and pulled you out of there.
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But it was outrageous that the police were not there.
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It is unacceptable that the police who dismissed our private security yesterday did not protect
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In particular, they swarmed one of our cameramen, Mocha.
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And it's doubly unacceptable to me that the same City Hall police and security that allows
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an unhygienic, unlawful, violence-prone squatter's camp, literally on the plaza in front of City
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Hall, they abide that, but they tell peaceful, law-abiding journalists to skedaddle?
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So we are back here today with seven security guards and our lawyer, Aaron Rosenberg.
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We have a team of seven, eight, nine, ten people, plus five.
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We got 15 people here today just to assist you doing a story.
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So we're going to go into this camp now, and you're going to do a normal story.
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What I'm going to be looking for, and so will our lawyer, is will John Tory's politicized
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police, who have ignored this illegal encampment, will they try to crack down on you, on me,
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Let's go to the front steps of the City Hall, and let's let you do journalism.
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We're going to be so compliant with the law, we're going to be professional, we're going
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to be lawful, we're not going to cause a scene.
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We're going to be so perfect in our conduct, that the police will literally have no cause
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Well, folks, we are at literally the scene of the crime.
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And evidently, 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.
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You can tell there's not a raindrop in the air today.
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So, this is going to be to attempt to block our cameras so, you know, we can't capture
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It's a typical Antifa 101 tactic in massaging the narrative to their liking.
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Also, as you can see, as I alluded to earlier, we got a couple of porta-potties established
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So, not only are the police coming in and John Tory saying, you cannot be here, it is
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illegal, they are making these squatters have a comfortable place to be.
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It should also be noted that despite this illegal occupation, there is 0.0 police presence.
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And then we have one solitary security guard there.
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Notably, he is behind a steel wall of sorts, a temporary steel fencing.
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The left is typically against building walls so that a country can maintain its sovereignty
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in terms of illegal aliens coming to the country.
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But when they are threatened at City Hall, walls are very effective indeed.
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Now, as you can see off camera too, this is where they start shoving umbrellas and whatnot
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And they start complaining, don't touch me, and that this is an assault on them.
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See, again, you ask them a question, and they can't answer it.
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It's a conversation where people are against you.
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Well, maybe, ma'am, if you put your umbrella down...
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By the way, why is it that you people don't want your encampment filmed?
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Okay, well, we're dealing with semantics right now.
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Are you able to respond to a question without profanity?
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Well, I believe this is a public square, ma'am.
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Does somebody come up into your home and take up your space?
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Does somebody come into your home and they can dictate how you run your household?
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What about all these other people on your land?
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If you want to abolish the police, ma'am, who do we call when the bad guys harass people
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It's your people that did this, had this mindset in here.
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Our people were peaceful people before they came here.
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If someone were to criminally harass you, harm you, who would you call if you abolish the
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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.
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They walk an inch away from us, and then they play the victim card.
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Now, where, where, and you'd think, now you'd think with an illegal occupation like this,
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Yes, but Mayor Tory has called off the cops, it would seem.
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We are probably a four-minute drive from police headquarters.
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So, right now, what you're doing is causing a disturbance with everybody here.
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You have to tell me what grounds I violated, ma'am.
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Hey, is that that wacky tobacco that's legal now?
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Smells like a dead skunk in the middle of the road, actually.
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I thought we weren't allowed inside your sacred circle, sir.
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You're disrupting by coming in and going against what we believe.
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Sir, if you didn't do nothing wrong, that means you did something wrong.
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And you're the one that punched my microphone, sir.
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So, I'm not sure how much we're capturing folks.
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But this is par for the course with these Antifa wannabes, you know.
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So, again, I'm not sure what they're trying to accomplish aside from making themselves look like infants.
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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 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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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,
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that a peaceful, quiet news report on the town square is breaching the peace,
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And if you also want to call Colonel Sanders, he has about as much authority as these mall cops.
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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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That's just happening, whether I do it with the cops, with the security, or by my lonesome.
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They said at 1234, they trespassed all of you guys.
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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.
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But I know how tough it is to be a cop these days.
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Because the only reason I'm here with 15 of my friends is because we were shooed away from the town square yesterday.
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And I thought the president of the company himself is going to come down and prove that in Toronto, the town square is a place where a journalist can go peacefully.
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And if I get personally attacked, we need to know it.
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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 cameraman and David.
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I hope you guys will just walk with me to the stairs.
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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, and we didn't violate those.
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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, 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.