Juno News - Security expert reveals TROUBLING pattern behind U.S. consulate shootings

00:00:00.000 police are investigating another shooting incident outside the u.s consulate in toronto

00:00:09.800 no injuries reported but police say they heard the sound of gunfire at 4 46 a.m local time near

00:00:17.280 the consulate building at 360 university avenue they found a shell casing at the scene and a white

00:00:24.240 van was spotted leaving the area. No description available of the suspect yet. Premier Ford posted

00:00:31.880 this on X. I'm totally disgusted by the shootings and vandalism that took place in Toronto over the

00:00:39.020 last few days, including at two Jewish-owned businesses over the weekend and near the U.S.

00:00:46.480 consulate this morning. In all cases, active police investigations are underway. I expect

00:00:52.620 all those responsible to be found, prosecuted, and punished to the fullest extent of the law.

00:00:59.820 It's the second time this year the U.S. Consulate in Toronto has been the scene of gunfire. It also

00:01:04.680 happened on March the 10th. A small group of pro-Hamas protesters converged on a Jewish

00:01:12.020 long-term care facility in North York.

00:01:22.620 Well, no injuries were reported, but conservative MP Roman Babber is calling on police to stop

00:01:32.440 activity, such activity rather. He posted this on X. Islamists, thugs, march outside an LTC home

00:01:42.040 for Jewish seniors in North York. It's not free speech, it's harassment and intimidation. The

00:01:48.180 same day two bakeries are attacked. Get them out of our residential neighborhoods. Our guest today

00:01:55.620 is security expert Ross McLean, bodyguard to the billionaires. Welcome to the show, Ross.

00:02:01.980 Good to be with you, Mark. Important topic. Yeah, I mean, another shooting at the U.S. consulate.

00:02:08.860 I mean, nobody injured again, but these are troubling incidents, aren't they?

00:02:14.700 they're they're more than troubling they're they're a pattern mark and the way that i look

00:02:21.260 at these situations are through two different lenses one i used to be in law enforcement so i

00:02:26.680 know how the police look at it secondly i worked in close protection so i used to protect people

00:02:31.900 against attacks like this and dealing with problems like that and i also work corporately so

00:02:37.260 what i look at is i'm reading the tea leaves of what's going on here

00:02:41.720 And what I'm seeing is a series of criminal acts that are taking place

00:02:47.600 that I think are designed to send a message, quite frankly.

00:02:51.060 And I find it quite concerning, and I find it to be an escalation.

00:02:56.380 Well, what sort of message do you think these people are trying to send,

00:03:00.620 and who are these people?

00:03:03.160 Well, let's go back to what we do know.

00:03:05.160 We don't know everything.

00:03:05.920 the police really tell very little whenever there's anything that's involved uh that he's

00:03:11.760 even remotely involved with terrorism has been my experience they do not speak about it in those

00:03:16.880 terms and they're not very forthcoming but we've seen over the course of the last couple of years

00:03:21.540 we've of course had all of the marches the uh the anti-israel march is going on we have had the

00:03:27.780 shootings at synagogues we have had the previous shooting not more than four months ago at the u.s

00:03:33.220 consulate we've had jews that have been targeted with paint pellet guns that are being shot

00:03:38.420 this is the history that we're looking at we also recently had information that the fbi had arrested

00:03:44.500 a big player tied to iran who was apparently conducting a lot of these terror operations

00:03:52.740 in north america at least according to what the fbi has said including the shootings at the

00:03:57.780 synagogues and the shooting at the u.s consulate it's those on the background of those things

00:04:05.060 that the police just before fifa started did that raid early morning raid on that on that apartment

00:04:14.180 from a tip from i believe from the fbi about who was in there that they were direct these

00:04:18.500 are the ones who were doing the shootings right they would call them up they'd get a shooter

00:04:24.740 they'd get a gun they get a car and they'd go and shoot whatever was done take a video of it

00:04:29.460 so they got paid and as you recall mark horribly a police officer died when they went to go execute

00:04:36.820 that warrant that's right right a great copper he gave his life during this so after all this is

00:04:42.980 announced we've we've just had a guy arrested earlier uh late last week for promotion with

00:04:51.700 habas terrorism charges we arrested him for it and they said that oh the charges are two years

00:04:58.100 old they arrested me he's out on bail with of course what else happens in canada but you're

00:05:02.180 out on bail when you're charged with terrorism tamara leach is shaking her head wondering what

00:05:06.580 she did wrong right he's out now we've got a shooting boom right at two jewish cafes one the

00:05:15.620 windows are broken the other one was shot at and then a shooting at the consulate which they've 0.99

00:05:20.740 all done before. So they're basically saying, as far as I can tell, we don't care what you say or

00:05:26.260 what you do. We're going to carry on with our terrorism. And I think it's a huge escalation,

00:05:32.140 Mark. Well, we know that the United States is locked in an escalating war. Well, I mean,

00:05:37.760 I guess maybe it's de-escalating just very lately with Iran. We've heard stories of Iranian sleeper 0.67

00:05:46.120 cells in the united states i mean it's not beyond the realm of possibility that they are in canada

00:05:52.040 given the lax state of our security these days but when you look at these incidents

00:05:57.880 nobody ends up getting hurt at least in the two that there's been at the u.s

00:06:02.240 embassy or the consulate rather and so there might be a tendency by some to kind of

00:06:08.600 not laugh them off but not treat them very seriously but i guess the danger here is that

00:06:15.260 they're going to escalate that they're going to get worse over time what do you think this is the

00:06:21.280 danger and this follows on the heels of there was just apparently a terrorist motivated car attack

00:06:26.980 over in germany last week there was one jewish visibly jewish person who was older who was

00:06:33.400 knocked to the ground wrecked his back had his hip broken there was another visibly jewish person

00:06:38.800 in new york that had someone take a screwdriver and they stabbed them viciously with it this is 0.70

00:06:44.200 all leading up to it and then we have this shooting into this seemingly innocent little

00:06:49.600 place mark but let me tell you people do not know the message behind what this little place is

00:06:54.200 okay the place that was shot up is a little bagel bar at young and saint claire 0.64

00:06:59.220 that's a very special little bagel bar i mean on my understanding it was founded by a holocaust

00:07:05.580 survivor given over to someone else and they've kept the name for it but it is right next to the

00:07:10.780 Toronto Lawn and Tennis Club, which is the one that sort of makes the Granite Club look like

00:07:15.240 it's not worth very much, Mark. It's a very high-end club where people go. I know business

00:07:20.660 people who've conducted business. That's the spot where very, very wealthy people go into that

00:07:26.800 little bagel place, and they negotiate deals in there. You go in there, you could be sitting at

00:07:32.480 a table, there might be close to a billion dollars worth of people in that room with you,

00:07:37.800 200 million here 300 million over there 200 million over here and they sit down in that

00:07:42.440 little cafe and they meet and they do business deals so the shots going into this particular

00:07:48.640 uh spot to me seems like an escalation and it's a message and i'm seeing on social media today

00:07:56.320 where some jewish people in toronto are saying see that's why we got to leave we got to leave

00:08:01.700 It's like it's a real intimidation move at this point on Jewish people to real intimidation move.

00:08:09.900 And that's the escalation that I see. 0.70

00:08:11.760 And I also see it being done right in the face of the police saying they're preventing it.

00:08:17.900 Yeah, there was also the incident involving some pro-Hamas protesters who converged on a Jewish long-term care facility in North York.

00:08:28.200 And there were no injuries.

00:08:30.300 But again, it was an intimidation thing, and there was a conservative member of parliament, Roman Babber, who he's basically calling, look, we need police action here.

00:08:43.120 He says, he posts this on X, Islamist thugs marched outside an LTC home for Jewish seniors in North York.

00:08:53.180 It's not free speech, it's harassment and intimidation.

00:08:56.600 the same day two bakeries are attacked and uh got get them out of our residential

00:09:04.520 neighborhood so here it is more pressure being put on the police i mean from their vantage point

00:09:10.900 do you think that they are not doing enough or that they are being prevented from doing any more

00:09:18.360 than they have done what do you suppose is the mentality there i don't exactly know how i'm

00:09:24.580 supposed to answer that one mark because there's not it's not a win-win for me in answering that

00:09:29.000 but i will say this and i posted this on my ex account the police can absolutely in my opinion

00:09:34.540 arrest themselves out of all of those protests that are going on they arrest and lay charges

00:09:39.680 they don't do it they don't do it they've been asked to do it by the uh solicitor general twice

00:09:46.760 in writing they've been asked to do it by prominent members of the jewish community

00:09:50.600 They've been asked to do it by the Israeli ambassador to Canada.

00:09:53.940 There was also a letter signed by, I think, 50 or 100 very high profile Canadian business people saying we have to start dealing with this.

00:10:04.140 And all I can tell you is I'm not seeing any action.

00:10:06.800 And the police that I used to work for and the police that I knew when someone was committing crime in their area or doing things to ruin things in that area, they would find a way to deal with them.

00:10:18.560 they wouldn't just kind of go it's a gun discharge uh well we'll keep an eye next time or you know

00:10:26.320 we even had that same we even had that same deputy berato the one who said at the salsa shootings that

00:10:33.840 toronto is a safe city right and he got railed for that because it's he's saying it right at

00:10:38.880 the scene where a mass shooting had taken place he was also the person who when he spoke to the

00:10:43.040 jewish community earlier in a video that was taken down off social media explained how it's 0.71

00:10:48.400 kind of and i'm going to paraphrase here uh but it's hard to look after the jews that well because 0.99

00:10:54.560 we've got other crimes we have to deal with too we can't be everywhere at once and he kind of sort

00:10:59.920 of played it down that's my interpretation of the words that he used so what i'm what i'm seeing is

00:11:06.560 a lack of a lack of emotion about attacks taking place on jews you know in canada and let me tell

00:11:17.360 you when i worked doing security details i did not want to have the place that i was in charge

00:11:22.640 of security go down and have a mass robbery or lose millions of dollars i certainly didn't want

00:11:28.080 any client i was doing close protection with being taken out by someone or beaten up or something

00:11:33.440 while i'm supposed to be on the job to me that would be a stain on your reputation i would be

00:11:39.200 angry if that sort of thing was happening and i would not tolerate it but we're not seeing that

00:11:44.320 level of response to that and so i'll leave it to people to figure out why they think it is that's

00:11:50.000 what i think it is based on my experience on dealing with these things there doesn't seem to

00:11:54.720 be the energy to want to deal with this yeah on the consulate shooting we hear of this white van

00:12:03.440 leaving the area we we know that our cameras in the area and we've spoken about this in the past

00:12:09.680 You would think that busy part of the city would have captured a license plate or something at 4.46 this morning, but nothing, at least so far.

00:12:23.600 And the other thing I wanted to ask you about was, given the anti-American sentiment in Canada, I wonder if police, at least some of them, might be tempted to drag their feet on this investigation.

00:12:35.300 I want to believe that they are total professionals, and yet I can't help but think that they're also humans, and they might be subject to many of the same anti-American sentiments that we have seen elsewhere in Canadian society.

00:12:50.880 What do you think?

00:12:52.200 Yeah, I think there's a real problem with that.

00:12:54.680 And look, this is not going to be lost on anybody.

00:12:58.620 This was the second shooting at this consulate in less than four months.

00:13:03.220 into where our ally, the people that we're negotiating trade with, you know, are we

00:13:07.800 opening the Gordie Howe Bridge today? We're supposed to be. Hopefully that goes forward.

00:13:12.720 But is the President of the United States going to be a little bit ticked? Hey, why are you letting

00:13:16.540 my consulate be shot up, right? This could have other ramifications here. And it's happening

00:13:22.020 during these delicate negotiations. And where I'm kind of lost too is, like you said, what happened

00:13:27.320 in front of the consulate, 4.45 in the morning, I'm led to believe by news reporting. They had a

00:13:32.800 police officers sitting in a cruiser, a marked cruiser, out in front of the consulate, okay,

00:13:38.940 which, number one, is not a good way to protect any place sitting in a car. You can't see that.

00:13:43.480 That's not a good way to be protecting something. But whatever rolled up, the Civic rolled up and

00:13:49.080 fired at least one shot that we know of, then they claim that the car was pursued all the way to the

00:13:55.120 Don Valley Parkway in Bloor Street, is what I'm getting from the reporting. And then they just

00:14:00.060 continue the pursuit. Now, all these police cars have got dash cams on them. There's cameras all

00:14:05.740 over downtown Toronto. There's things that they can do. Someone said, where's the helicopter that

00:14:10.980 we have? Well, the helicopter wasn't up at the time that we spent the money for the helicopter

00:14:15.400 for it. So I just find the lack of information to be a telltale to the energy that's being put

00:14:23.200 into it from my point of view and seeing what we see on the public side so you think that

00:14:31.040 something is going on here with respect to the willingness of police to throw everything they

00:14:36.880 have in terms of investigating this do i hear you correctly on that all i can tell you is what the

00:14:43.640 appearances are of what i see i know that just before the walk for israel right the year before

00:14:48.880 I did a video on this on my channel. I called the police out for making the Jews walk through a wall 0.99

00:14:54.660 of shame and hate, a whole tunnel of hate. And I said, you better move these people at least 50 1.00

00:15:00.920 meters back. You better make, and they did. They came through after a shaming that went on. They

00:15:06.540 were asked about it in press conferences. Then they did something. So I'm just judging them by

00:15:12.780 their actions and i'm not seeing a whole lot of actions now they can say that well you don't know

00:15:20.140 ross it's going on behind the scenes this that okay i fine with that but you'd expect that that

00:15:25.740 would be producing some results at a certain point and we haven't seen results i have seen jews today

00:15:31.020 saying they're looking at leaving canada they're looking at leaving toronto because they don't feel

00:15:37.100 safe here. Let me remind you, Jewish children's schools were also shot up before in all of this.

00:15:44.440 So when I see them coming back and hitting the two places they just hit before after the police

00:15:49.120 claim they're on top of this game, to me, I see that as a complete sign of disrespect that they

00:15:54.800 don't expect they're going to get caught. I mean, a Honda Civic to outrun, I guess, whatever police

00:15:59.520 cars we've got? Yeah, I'm wondering if it's straight from the top with the mayor. I mean,

00:16:05.920 And how much is she involved in this?

00:16:09.460 I mean, where is the determination on her part to do more rather than seemingly?

00:16:17.140 I'm not saying she's completely ignored the issue, but she doesn't seem to treat it with

00:16:21.280 the seriousness that some people think it should be treated with.

00:16:24.940 You have the premier who issued a strong statement today.

00:16:28.420 I am totally disgusted by the shootings and vandalism that took place in Toronto over

00:16:32.780 last few days, including at two Jewish-owned businesses over the weekend and near the U.S.

00:16:39.380 consulate this morning. In all cases, active police investigations are underway. I expect

00:16:46.120 all those responsible to be found, prosecuted, and punished to the fullest extent of the law.

00:16:51.760 But if I heard you correctly earlier, Ross, we could be looking at a hired gun type of situation

00:16:56.860 where somebody gets paid, I don't know, a thousand bucks to go down and fire a shot at the U.S. 0.54

00:17:03.880 consulate. And this guy may not even know who's paying him. You know, it could be in Bitcoin.

00:17:09.580 Correct. Cash transfers. Even if you were to get this guy and I'm not saying it's not worth

00:17:15.860 absolutely. You know, you get to the perpetrator and you arrest and you go after him. But how how

00:17:23.160 much does he know about the people who may have put him up to it you know what i'm saying

00:17:27.440 no absolutely and that may have been the case on the ones before but i bring you back to the

00:17:33.520 results that we are seeing right we are seeing places shot up consulates shot up uh and like

00:17:39.540 i said this shooting into this one particular location i mean as a security guy i'm protecting

00:17:46.300 some of my billionaire clients that are in forest hill i'd be telling them that that was meant

00:17:51.020 to send a message send a message to the very wealthy jews that's what i would be telling my 0.94

00:17:59.980 clients i said we're going to have to up your security we're going to have to look after you 0.90

00:18:04.460 a little bit better because it's just all it takes is like you said you go from the one guy

00:18:09.180 who's commissioned for a thousand bucks to fire a shot to a true believer who wants to finish the

00:18:15.220 job right it's not that big a step and i remind you we just arrested someone last week for the

00:18:22.720 promotion of terrorism i think was the charge with hamas and we have this today so for me the red

00:18:29.720 lights are going off as a private security person and as someone who would have to look after the 0.92

00:18:33.980 safety of people the jews are all walking around looking over their shoulders do i do i look like 0.97

00:18:40.600 a visible jew when i go out now what do i have to do i i go to my synagogue am i going to be

00:18:47.080 have somebody shooting at me when i come out of my synagogue these are legitimate questions but

00:18:52.920 i don't see a seriousness from anybody standing up and saying this is not going to happen in my town

00:18:58.840 anymore it starts with that you got to send the message to the bad guys and then you got to go

00:19:04.040 get the bad guys and i know there are plenty of plenty of very experienced police officers who

00:19:12.360 could deliver that message and deal with it but for some reason that message isn't getting sent

00:19:17.880 yeah there's the question how do people find you online ross they can catch me over on my youtube

00:19:24.840 at mclean chronicles on x i've got some videos that covers off some of this i'll be doing another

00:19:30.680 video on this a little bit later and on my ex at mclean chronicles ross mclean thank you so much

00:19:36.760 for coming on the show appreciate it thank you mark if you enjoyed the show consider supporting

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Juno News - July 28, 2026

Security expert reveals TROUBLING pattern behind U.S. consulate shootings

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