Juno News - September 26, 2019Trudeau sends the police to remove Andrew Lawton from public event
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Summary
Justin Trudeau is doing a public event as a Canadian citizen and the police pull me out of the line to prevent me from covering it. What are they afraid of me doing? And why are they so worried about me covering it?
Transcript
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hey guys this has now gotten absolutely beyond comical so you know by now i'm following the
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liberal campaign i've been banned from covering it as media i've been banned from the press
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conferences and the media events that the liberals are doing but one of the things that the liberal
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press secretary told me a few days ago is that you know what anyone's allowed to come to the
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public events tonight justin trudeau is doing one of those public events he is doing a public rally
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at lakehead university in thunder bay ontario public it was advertised to the public there
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was a public link to rsvp i registered as a private citizen i was on the list i was even
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given a wristband so i was given a wristband for this event this is like the epitome of being
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in the clear to go waited in line they checked my name off the list was in there for probably about
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an hour i get up to the front i'm just about to go into the room and someone has taken my photo
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and walked up a few feet and showed it to police when i go closer to them when the line moved closer
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to them they said are you andrew i said yes they say come with us and they told me i'm not welcome
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they said the organizers have determined i'm not welcome at the event they didn't give me a name
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they didn't give me a reason they didn't even know the reason they just said it's a private event
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basically and that they were allowed to get rid of me and if i want to take it up with someone i can
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so this is now four days in a row that i have been ejected from doing my job from covering the liberal
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campaign from covering things that are going on this is the first time it's happened at a public
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event though a public rally supposed to be about justin trudeau resonating with the voters i was here
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as a canadian citizen and they literally had two police officers pull me out of the line
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what are they afraid of me doing what are they afraid i mean i wasn't i don't even think they
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were taking questions i was going to be live tweeting about this like i did yesterday at
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jagmeet singh's event in burnaby once again my four-day streak is unbroken and continues
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from thunder bay ontario for true north i'm andrew lutton