Juno News - Journalist arrested while questioning Chrystia Freeland (ft. David Menzies)

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00:00:05.900 this is the footage here and i'm gonna talk over it as it plays for you here but uh this is the

00:00:15.140 footage where david menzies is why i'm hoping the footage will start playing

00:00:19.580 david is talking uh christopher freeland is right there there's a poll he avoids the poll

00:00:27.900 avoids moves his shoulder to avoid the police officer who puts his arm out and then eventually

00:00:35.680 he is pulled aside christopher freeland gets out of dodge and david as you saw in that first video

00:00:41.100 is slammed up against the wall he's later put in handcuffs carried away and he was released with

00:00:47.340 no charges but if the goal was to protect christopher freeland from being questioned by a

00:00:52.900 reporter mission accomplished uh david menzies is here to talk about this directly david uh good

00:00:59.420 to talk to you sir first off how are you i mean you've been through this before but you actually

00:01:04.320 looked in that moment uh quite startled

00:01:06.660 andrew and by the way i hope you had a merry christmas and a happy new year um but gee speaking

00:01:16.520 of the new year law enforcement is really off on the wrong foot you know one of the uh cheekiest

00:01:21.660 comments uh i came across in the various streams andrew is uh hey menzies this is on you you should

00:01:29.100 have been calling for genocide of an identifiable group then uh the mounties would have bought you

00:01:34.780 uh timbits and a cup of coffee uh as we saw the toronto police do to the pro hamas demonstrators on

00:01:40.940 saturday uh as they were blockading the avenue road bridge but you know i have to tell you andrew in

00:01:48.140 uh aside from the shock the overwhelming feeling uh was deja vu all over again uh you may recall

00:01:56.460 back in december of uh 2021 uh my ace cameraman lincoln jay and he was the shooter um at the event

00:02:06.460 yesterday we were in downtown toronto to scrum the prime minister the context was this andrew um

00:02:12.940 um trudeau had said uh that he wanted canadians not to get together with family and friends over

00:02:21.740 christmas time because covid is just uh too dangerous at the same time here he was in early december

00:02:29.820 going to a downtown toronto restaurant for one of those 1700 a plate fundraisers and they were packed in

00:02:36.220 like sardines the hypocrisy was off the charts so lincoln and i stood on a sidewalk and we waited

00:02:43.180 for the motorcade to come and uh blackface is always late by at least an hour and eventually he came 0.73

00:02:49.900 and um my goal was to simply ask him mr prime minister how do you how do you justify this double

00:02:57.100 standard canadians can't get together to celebrate uh the christmas holidays but you're going into a packed

00:03:02.780 restaurant and to my shock andrew and i invite your um uh viewers to uh check this out on our

00:03:09.580 website or on youtube uh these royal canadian mounted henchmen jumped out grabbed me didn't even

00:03:16.780 identify who they are they're in plain clothes no badge no uniform uh bounced my head off of a wooden

00:03:23.180 fence um i wasn't even under arrest that that's the really shocking part of it but it's always been

00:03:30.060 my theory and i can't prove this of course unless uh trudeau himself fessed up they knew who we are

00:03:36.700 i'm completely identifiable i've got the rebel news mike flash uh in my hands and i think they acted

00:03:44.860 uh on the prime minister's orders he saw us he hates us he said boys give them the works because

00:03:51.100 to me it's inexplicable that mounties on their own accord would jump out of their suvs and assault a

00:03:58.220 journalist um nevertheless we fast forward to yesterday yeah and here it is again i i'm on a in

00:04:07.820 at a taxpayer funded um performing arts venue in richmond hill which is where i live and i'm i'm not

00:04:16.060 touching uh christia freeland or her companion at all i'm just trying to ask questions and andrew i can

00:04:24.060 tell you i felt that mountie before i saw him because my focus was on christia freeland and and

00:04:32.460 the pole i mean you were i mean he was literally standing watching you and i i don't want to say

00:04:38.780 obstructing your path but he knew where you were walking and he knew that there was a collision here

00:04:43.580 and it's not to say that you know you couldn't have like gone out of your way to get away from him

00:04:48.380 but when you watch the video what i find notable here is that there's not a lot of room between

00:04:53.660 you and christia freeland if you were to try to move out of the way of him you would have bumped

00:04:57.980 into her and then you would have had a bigger problem on your hands and it looks like he has

00:05:01.980 his arm out i mean he is the obstruction here so i'm not seeing the assault on a police officer of

00:05:08.060 which you were accused yeah um i think andrew this was uh as i say over in the uk a stitch up

00:05:16.140 this was a frame job uh he knew exactly what he was doing he was he ambushed me uh he initiated

00:05:23.820 the physical contact um i have no interest in getting physical with anyone for goodness sakes

00:05:29.820 i'm certainly uh not going to uh touch um a female cabinet minister who i tower over um i just was 0.99

00:05:39.020 asking questions but it seems andrew in canada of 2024 impolite and insensitive questions um those

00:05:47.580 are verboten uh you can get arrested i guess for wrong think i mean i i like in canada to a banana

00:05:55.420 republic except of course we don't grow bananas in canada andrew as you know so let's call it a maple

00:06:00.700 syrup republic under uh trudeau uh but the thing is i think you know if you're not an admirer of rebel

00:06:09.580 news or or ezra levant or myself that's fine but surely there should be people out there especially in

00:06:18.220 our industry of journalism that stand up or should be standing up and saying um this is wrong this is

00:06:26.620 verboten but the mainstream media in canada at least has been silent and this is a a story

00:06:34.140 in terms of twitter impressions i think it's over 10 million as we speak um it's absolutely shocking

00:06:41.180 and that was kind of the same treatment the mainstream media uh gave uh to what happened uh

00:06:48.700 in december of 2021 they either ignored it or uh um almost came up with a conspiratorial

00:06:55.420 theory that was david aiken's uh mantra at global uh going that uh saying that this was um you know

00:07:03.500 all pre-planned it was absolutely outrageous well yeah i mean you you chose to ask the question to

00:07:09.500 christia freeland but how they responded is on them and i will say though you do seem to have a bit more

00:07:15.420 support uh this time around than you did then uh i mean one i'll put up the tweet elon musk uh weighed in

00:07:21.740 on this the uh owner of x uh and elon says here uh fine for the officer to body block i'm not actually

00:07:28.940 convinced that it's fine but he says it's false to say that you deliberately assaulted an officer

00:07:33.740 uh but to his credit pierre polyev and i know the conservatives have historically had a bit of a

00:07:38.540 strained relationship with rebel news but pierre polyev weighed in he shared the rebel video said

00:07:43.820 this is the state of freedom of the press in canada in 2024 after eight years of trudeau and you know

00:07:50.940 it's funny alexander brown who runs a sub stack that is quite uh important for people to pay

00:07:55.740 attention to he had said here he he was tired of the well i don't like david menzies but or i'm not

00:08:01.340 a fan of rebel news but he said if you can't just look at this and say this is wrong you are part of the

00:08:07.180 problem here and this is a press freedom issue let me ask has your inbox been met with any support from

00:08:14.700 the civil liberties groups in this country or the journalistic advocacy groups in this country apart from

00:08:19.180 the the independent press gallery no the silence is deafening uh andrew and it's really egregious

00:08:27.660 in terms of you know you you made a quote there that i thought was significant uh i don't like david

00:08:33.260 menzies i don't like ezra levant i don't like rebel news we're but and we're getting a lot of those

00:08:39.260 uh and it just shows you how egregious and offside that mountie was um even when these uh commentators

00:08:46.780 state that they're not particular fans of ours and that's yeah they don't want to support you

00:08:51.740 and it pains them that they have to because it's that bad what happened exactly that's the point and

00:08:57.740 i thought you did a brilliant tweet uh yesterday on this matter uh andrew where you uh pinpointed

00:09:03.900 the the time code i think it was zero uh zero nine so the nine second mark where you see the mountie

00:09:11.500 initiating physical contact and you know it and it was it's crazy i mean i know if you literally

00:09:17.500 touch somebody that that can be taken as assault but this was at best incidental uh contact i mean

00:09:24.460 the real roughing up came when they were putting the cuffs on me and slamming my head uh into the

00:09:30.380 wall i don't know why they do that andrew i've been i've been arrested a few times and every time i'm

00:09:35.820 uh incapacitated with handcuffs uh i they still uh slam my uh head off a wall or a fence or the uh

00:09:44.140 the hood of the police suv uh i don't get that uh maybe they think they're on tv or something uh but

00:09:51.420 yeah um you know i want to thank you for for pinpointing that out and uh golly i gotta say in

00:09:57.580 slow motion it does look like the sapruder film from the kennedy assassination was that was there a second

00:10:03.740 menzoid coming in but yeah and when you think of it andrew um i i've always looked at that film and

00:10:10.940 i've called it the great great great granddaddy of social media you know now almost everybody has a

00:10:17.820 cell phone camera and we can record it but if sapruder didn't have that little eight millimeter

00:10:23.100 bell and howl uh camera uh that footage wouldn't exist so uh it's interesting to bring it up and you

00:10:30.060 know there are other cameras we've got an appeal out to anyone else who filmed this and of course the

00:10:35.260 richmond hill center for the performing arts um they have closed circuit security surveillance as

00:10:43.100 well i'm sure as part of our lawsuit uh we'll be asking uh for that footage as well and yeah you

00:10:49.660 mentioned the lawsuit so let me ask you about this david i i saw your boss rebel commander ezra levant

00:10:55.500 tweet this morning that you're suing freeland the rcmp and york regional police as i understand what

00:11:01.420 what's happening there that's correct i i believe there's four things we're suing for including false

00:11:06.940 arrest uh melissa's prosecution and garden variety assault on me because you know far from the rcmp's

00:11:16.060 narrative he did the assault i wasn't under the arrest at the time nor was i you know and andrew i just

00:11:22.540 want to go out on a limb here if i was some guy wearing a balaclava and wearing camouflage and it

00:11:29.740 looked like i had something that resembled a handgun or a rifle i can see a preemptive strike by law

00:11:36.620 enforcement i can but you know andrew they know who we are i've got the rebel news mike flash out i wear

00:11:42.380 my trademark hat and uh they know i'm not there wearing trouble on my shirt i'm not there to hurt anyone

00:11:50.220 so they can't play that card and i can tell you andrew um if any of your viewers have it in their

00:11:56.540 heart to support our case against this draconian fascism we saw on display in richmond hill if they

00:12:04.380 can kindly go to stand with david.com that stand with david.com and i know things are tough these

00:12:10.380 days but if you have a few extra bucks we crowdfund uh our uh our revenue as you know uh we don't take

00:12:17.260 any government funding and uh if they can go to stand with david.com make a donation that would be

00:12:23.900 greatly appreciated andrew and i just to confirm they released you without laying any charges so

00:12:29.740 so this uh egregious assault on a police officer by their own admission either didn't happen or didn't

00:12:34.940 rise to the level of uh needing to charge you you know absolutely andrew uh as the footage goes on you

00:12:41.740 see me eventually getting loaded into a police suv a york regional police suv um the cops were gracious

00:12:48.860 enough to um handcuff me uh take the handcuffs off behind my back and put them in the front because

00:12:57.180 i told them with the cramped space in that cruiser um i have double hip replacement this would be not

00:13:05.180 safe for me and so at least they gave me that little mercy but here's the funny thing it's um

00:13:11.420 it wasn't as the saying goes not so funny at the time uh they they were they were telling me we're

00:13:17.340 going to drive you uh to the police station on major major mckenzie drive for processing and then they had

00:13:25.260 another officer come up to them there was some kind of conversation and they waited for a while

00:13:28.860 and then they drove off and they started going uh northbound and since i live in richmond hill uh

00:13:37.900 andrew i know the station's southbound so i'm thinking where are we going and i'm brought to the

00:13:43.100 back of a school uh which has been dismissed and i'm thinking holy moly what is this the cherry beach

00:13:50.380 express right like it was it was unbelievable and but it turned out to be a good news story because they

00:13:58.220 said we've been told the the the mounting uh in question has declined to press charges i guess

00:14:05.420 he had a come to jesus moment maybe he saw some cell phone footage uh because this is about almost

00:14:10.620 an hour after the incident so we're just going to release you here so it was like catch and release

00:14:15.500 like dump you out on the curb somewhere and i and and i walked back to the performing arts center

00:14:21.820 not to go inside even though we were invited as media because according to the police uh myself and

00:14:27.660 lincoln had been trespassed which makes no sense because if there's no charges uh what's the issue

00:14:33.340 so we had to do the rest of the reporting on the sidewalk and i got to tell you and you our original

00:14:39.100 goal of going there we didn't even know um blackface and company were going to be there yesterday

00:14:45.580 i was at the first commemoration ceremony for that ukrainian airline that was shot down let's keep in

00:14:51.020 mind and you 179 innocent civilians plus one unborn baby which of course the media will never uh list as

00:15:00.700 a homicide that included 55 canadians by the way most of them of persian descent and when i went in

00:15:07.180 2020 to that very same venue the richmond hill center for the performing arts there were politicians of

00:15:12.540 every level every political stripe except one and that would be none other than the liberal mp for richmond

00:15:19.660 hill majid johari if you can imagine andrew majid johari supports the iranian regime he's had meetings

00:15:27.660 with iranian government officials in canada and it's so beyond the pale for me i've lived in richmond hill

00:15:34.700 for 25 years i can tell you it's a significant persian minority there i believe it's as high as 14

00:15:40.940 all the persians i've met there um have been wonderful people i go to persian shops persian

00:15:49.100 restaurants they're typically people that fled the regime post 1979 uh the revolution uh they're

00:15:57.020 getting away from tyranny and imagine andrew that somehow some way that the member of parliament

00:16:07.020 for that riding of richmond hill is a pro-regime person now he didn't show up at the first

00:16:13.020 commemoration and i had people there tell me uh that was for his own safety because there were

00:16:19.180 so many people who had relatives that died on that plane and for him to show his face would be egregious

00:16:25.500 so that was really why i was there i knew there'd be politicians there but would majid johari show up

00:16:30.540 well not only did he show up evidently because again i couldn't get in but trudeau himself and

00:16:37.100 and andrew talk about the continuation of lies it's been four years since that egregious incident

00:16:45.820 where canadians were murdered in cold blood the irgc is still not a terrorist group not recognized as

00:16:53.740 one i should say by the canadian government um trump recognized it as one when biden came into power i

00:16:59.980 thought i'd never say anything positive about biden but he didn't take them off the list

00:17:03.900 so why is it that they're not on the list and even if you look at the mealy mouse statement trudeau said

00:17:10.060 it was along the lines we'll look at ways yeah of putting them on look at ways you've really got a

00:17:16.220 an unofficial majority government you can do it today you know if you wanted to and i i gotta jump in

00:17:22.780 here david i i should also point out i promise i would let you go at 120 at your request and you were

00:17:27.660 the one that took us over so uh that's on you sir but uh you had some good commentary and i i should

00:17:32.220 say majid johari has denied these allegations which were i believe originally made by an iranian

00:17:38.540 journalist that he had had this uh relationship with iranian intelligence he he says no he's he's

00:17:43.580 not loyal to the regime but i would encourage people to look up reporting on him in the past

00:17:48.220 david menzies glad you got the cuffs off always good to talk to you sir well thank you and one last 0.99

00:17:52.700 thing if majid uh johari is denying it this man is such a liar andrew he will spit in your face and 0.95

00:17:59.100 tell you it's raining okay so okay you're trying to get us to david i i was trying to get us through 0.98

00:18:03.820 the exit here now i i should say we i am not making an accusation that he is a liar but i do think that if

00:18:10.060 he has nothing to hide he should make himself available to independent journalists and not have

00:18:14.140 uh the police stand in the way as uh ms freeland did there yesterday david thank you thank you so much

00:18:20.620 andrew all the best in the new year all right thanks for listening to the andrew lawton show

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Juno News - January 10, 2024

Journalist arrested while questioning Chrystia Freeland (ft. David Menzies)

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