Rebel News Podcast - June 11, 2026


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Toronto police officer killed during raid linked to Iran-backed terror network — will Canada finally act？

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murdered cop and terrorist hunt
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Constable Mark Pinizotto Olivia Chow Zahra Jabi Richard Inman Mark Carney Sam Cooper Kataib Hezbollah Clayton Campbell Qasem Soleimani Tommy Robinson Tuthui Drive Myron Demke Omar Artan Elon Musk Trudeau Ummah
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A police officer from the Toronto Police SWAT team was murdered this morning, affecting a search warrant on an Islamic terrorist cell that has been accused of attacking the U.S. consulate earlier this year. I ll give you all the details, including remarks from the Chief, the Mayor, and a quirky historical note about one of the wanted fugitives.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Terrible news. A police officer from the SWAT team was murdered this morning
00:00:05.000 affecting a search warrant on an Islamic terrorist cell that has been accused of attacking the U.S.
00:00:11.820 consulate earlier this year. The cop has been murdered. Very sad news. One terrorist in custody
00:00:17.580 at the hospital, another on the loose. We'll see how this goes. I think that nothing focuses
00:00:23.640 the minds of police more than one of their colleagues falling in the line of duty.
00:00:28.780 I think that every police force and security agency in Canada and the United States will be working on finding him.
00:00:35.940 My question is, what will that do to change any Canadian policies?
00:00:41.340 And I wonder if anything will change.
00:00:43.180 I'll give you all the details, including remarks from the chief, the mayor, and a quirky historical note about one of the wanted fugitives.
00:00:51.660 Anyways, it's a busy show today.
00:00:53.980 But first, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus.
00:00:56.960 Plus, it's the video version of today's podcast.
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00:01:07.720 You're listening to a Rebel News Podcast. 0.90
00:01:18.720 A Muslim terrorist murdered a Toronto cop today, and it was organized by Iran.
00:01:24.480 Will that change anything?
00:01:26.360 It's June 11th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:32.220 There was a murder today.
00:01:45.620 I could use the word allegedly, and I suppose it's wise to do so,
00:01:49.600 but I really don't think we need to go through the niceties of it.
00:01:52.040 I mean, this morning, Toronto police were executing a search warrant.
00:01:55.280 They were raiding an apartment in relation to the shooting of the U.S. consulate building in Toronto a few months back.
00:02:02.960 You might remember there was a serious shooting right in the heart of the city on a major street.
00:02:08.040 And it wasn't just a BB gun or anything, a serious terrorist attack.
00:02:11.900 I mean, luckily no one was killed.
00:02:13.880 I was impressed that so many Canadians left flowers and messages of support and solidarity there.
00:02:18.260 It felt pretty good.
00:02:19.420 But in the rain this morning, Constable Mark Pinizotto, an 18-year veteran of the force on the SWAT team, who is a wife and two kids at home, he was killed.
00:02:33.080 Here's the Toronto Police Chief, Myron Demke, with a very sad and sober report of that earlier today.
00:02:39.020 It is with deep and profound sorrow that I must confirm the death of Police Constable Mark Pinizotto.
00:02:47.520 Page 43 of our emergency task force.
00:02:56.520 Mark was shot in the line of duty while conducting a search warrant early this morning in the
00:03:02.520 area of Black Creek and Tuthui Drive.
00:03:05.520 He was provided emergency care by members of Toronto Tactical Paramedics and was rushed
00:03:12.520 to hospital.
00:03:14.520 Despite heroic efforts here at Sunnybrook, he later died.
00:03:21.880 Myself and Police President Clayton Campbell and our teams met with Mark's family at the hospital
00:03:29.640 to confirm this devastating news and they are grieving the profound loss.
00:03:36.040 Words cannot describe the pain they are feeling. Mark served the Toronto Police Service for 18
00:03:43.960 years including five years as a specially trained emergency task force unit member.
00:03:52.680 This loss will have a profound impact on the Toronto Police family. Our service, our members
00:04:01.000 and all members of the larger policing family are deeply saddened. The investigation that led
00:04:08.760 to the search warrant when Police Constable Mark Benezoto was tragically killed concerned
00:04:15.240 a number of shootings including a shooting at the United States Consulate on University Avenue.
00:04:22.680 There were several search warrants executed this morning across the Toronto area. It is important
00:04:29.000 to note that there is one outstanding suspect. He is identified as Zahra Jabi, 19 years of
00:04:38.300 age. And I would encourage Zahra Jabi to turn himself in. One of the terrorists, the one
00:04:47.040 who killed Pinazotto, is in the hospital. They're still hunting another terrorist. His name
00:04:53.380 is Zara Jabi. The police made a public appeal for him to turn himself in. I don't know a lot
00:04:59.840 about policing, but I'm going to guess that every single police force and intelligence asset in
00:05:05.020 Canada and probably quite a few from our American friends are focusing on finding him. I expect he'll
00:05:11.800 be found in the next 24 hours, actually. It's my hunch. Here's a story in the Toronto Star from
00:05:17.000 13 years ago that seems to mention the fugitive.
00:05:22.260 It's a story called RCMP and Ontario's Muslims.
00:05:25.080 Can they get along? 0.86
00:05:26.800 Huh, what foreshadowing that is.
00:05:29.320 Here's part of the story.
00:05:30.760 Nearby, six-year-old Zahra Jabi talks excitedly about seeing the police cars.
00:05:37.000 You know, the age lines up.
00:05:38.400 It sounds like it's the same person.
00:05:39.980 Isn't that crazy?
00:05:41.680 In addition to the police chief, though,
00:05:43.600 the mayor spoke to the anti-police mayor, Olivia Chow.
00:05:49.280 There are no words that can ease the pain of the family,
00:05:55.980 the loved ones, and the colleagues across the service.
00:06:01.640 They are very much in our thoughts as they face this profound loss.
00:06:07.680 I happen to know the mom very well for 20-plus years.
00:06:13.080 Yeah, very recently, Olivia Chow famously said that no U.S. ICE agents, immigration agents, are allowed in Toronto as if she has that power at all.
00:06:22.380 Mayor Chow, Mayor Chow, what do you think about ICE coming to Toronto?
00:06:25.540 ICE have no place in this city. Toronto is about to welcome thousands and thousands of families because of FIFA World Cup, where everyone belongs, everyone's welcome. So stay out, ICE. We do not need you here.
00:06:39.980 And just yesterday, she publicly declared that the anti-Semitic Somali referee Omar Artan is
00:06:49.100 welcome in Toronto for the upcoming soccer games, even though he was barred from the United States
00:06:55.040 because of his links to an Islamic terrorist group. Yeah, I'm not sure you get to support
00:07:02.820 Islamic terrorism and denigrate anti-terrorism police. And then the very next day claim you
00:07:09.180 deeply care about a policeman who was killed by Islamic terrorism. I don't think you get to have
00:07:14.560 it both ways. I think you have to choose. So who is the killer? And who is this Zera Jabi on the
00:07:20.920 run? Well, our friend Sam Cooper has been following this file for a while. He's an independent 1.00
00:07:25.580 journalist specializing in foreign interference in Canadian affairs. Sometimes that takes a form
00:07:30.820 of Chinese interference. In this, it's Islamic Iranian interference. Let me quote a little bit 0.94
00:07:36.860 from his essay today. Full credit to him. You can find his coverage on Substack. His headline is
00:07:44.000 Toronto Police Officer Killed in Raid on Suspects in March Attack on United States Consulate.
00:07:50.960 A shooting U.S. prosecutors allege was directed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard proxy network.
00:07:58.900 Slain Officer Mark Pinizotto was executing search warrants tied to the consulate shooting that a New
00:08:04.520 York federal complaint links to Hezbollah commander Mohammed al-Saadi. Now that's a lot of names
00:08:10.440 and groups there, but Sam explains it fairly well. Let me read a couple paragraphs. He says,
00:08:16.340 a Toronto police officer was shot and killed early Thursday during a raid targeting suspects in the
00:08:21.740 March shooting attack on the U.S. consulate in Toronto. An attack that federal prosecutors in
00:08:27.240 New York, allege, was directed by a senior commander of Kata'ib Hezbollah, the Iraqi
00:08:35.060 proxy militia of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
00:08:41.080 The officer was shot during an exchange of gunfire at a high-rise building in the early
00:08:45.360 hours of the morning.
00:08:46.760 The Toronto Police Service said he was later pronounced dead in hospital.
00:08:50.980 So they're talking about the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
00:08:54.920 That's the terrorist group that both Trudeau and Mark Carney allowed to operate in Canada.
00:09:00.220 That's the one where they say there's 700 known agents in Canada.
00:09:04.440 They know who they are.
00:09:06.020 That's how they can count them.
00:09:08.040 And they just let them be here. 0.91
00:09:10.300 Because to kick them out would anger the new liberal voter base of anti-Semitic immigrants. 0.93
00:09:15.500 And it looks like the IRGC cell in Canada just killed a cop.
00:09:21.740 I want to read the next part at length.
00:09:24.420 Give me two minutes because I think it's terrifying.
00:09:27.440 This is from Sam Cooper.
00:09:29.500 As the Bureau reported in May, a federal criminal complaint unsealed in the Southern District of New York
00:09:34.580 alleges the consulate attack was the work of a terrorist network directed by Mohammed Bakr Sa'ad Dawud al-Sa'adi,
00:09:43.540 a 32-year-old Iraqi citizen described by the FBI as a high-level Qatayb Hezbollah commander
00:09:49.520 with direct personal ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani.
00:09:57.400 According to the complaint, al-Sahidi was captured on a wiretapped call on March 20th,
00:10:03.080 10 days after two men emerged from a white Honda CRV on University Avenue before dawn
00:10:08.140 and fired multiple rounds at the fortified consulate,
00:10:12.240 claiming, quote, our people were responsible for that shooting
00:10:15.640 and for a separate attack on a Toronto synagogue,
00:10:18.420 he referred to obliquely as hitting the Knesset.
00:10:22.780 On the same recorded call,
00:10:24.240 so this is a senior Iranian commander
00:10:26.640 caught on a phone call talking about these Toronto attacks.
00:10:29.820 I'll keep reading.
00:10:31.160 On the same recorded calls,
00:10:32.540 al-Sadi made clear Canada remained a live operational priority
00:10:36.760 for his network.
00:10:37.500 Quote, in Canada or America, he told an FBI source,
00:10:40.780 if you can do anything, that would be very, very important.
00:10:43.560 Of course, Canada is an important target, but not just Jews, Americans, anything Western.
00:10:50.380 The RGC is an instrument of Iran, and their ayatollahs believe that the entire world must submit to Islam, 0.92
00:10:57.920 and all independent nations must give way to a single Islamic state, the Ummah, 0.97
00:11:02.920 and all traces of liberalism and democracy must be wiped away. 0.99
00:11:06.940 I'm not going to read it all, but just one more line.
00:11:09.100 The complaint alleges that since February 28, the opening of the joint American-Israeli military campaign against Iran,
00:11:18.000 al-Saadi directed and promoted at least 18 terrorist attacks across Europe and two in Canada
00:11:23.400 under the banner of Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Aslamiyah,
00:11:28.820 a previously unknown group the FBI identifies as a front for Qatayb Hezbollah.
00:11:34.200 So it's a terrorist attack.
00:11:36.580 I know one thing, the Toronto police are going to change how they police in the city.
00:11:40.480 At least I think they will. 1.00
00:11:42.000 Everyone knows who the Iranian agents are. 1.00
00:11:44.400 We see them.
00:11:45.240 I could point out several of them to you.
00:11:47.360 They march every week at the Jewish corner of town, Bathurst and Shepherd.
00:11:51.000 The police know them. 0.99
00:11:52.640 They've been fine with it until last week's big Jewish march. 0.99
00:11:56.620 It's the first time ever they pushed it back a few feet. 0.98
00:11:59.060 But now that same group has just murdered one of them, murdered a cop.
00:12:06.580 I think that's going to change everything, maybe.
00:12:10.560 I mean, cops are more than just collegial.
00:12:12.360 They have a unity that comes from facing danger together.
00:12:15.500 It's like soldiers in a foxhole.
00:12:17.680 There's a deep human bond there that I think the rest of us never really experience.
00:12:22.460 There's more than a camaraderie, especially one of their own is murdered.
00:12:26.280 I think it fuses the force together emotionally and in terms of their sense of mission. 0.98
00:12:33.400 A Muslim terrorist just killed a cop. 0.99
00:12:36.180 Let's see. 0.99
00:12:37.860 Let's see if the police, now wounded by Iranian terrorism,
00:12:41.800 will do what they have been unwilling or unable to do these past three years. 0.99
00:12:45.840 Or let's see if Mark Carney and his Islamist allies have the power to make the police heal, 0.99
00:12:52.180 to make the police stand down, 1.00
00:12:53.960 like they do every week in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
00:12:58.540 Terrible days.
00:13:00.780 Stay with us. More ahead.
00:13:10.380 Welcome back, my friends. 1.00
00:13:11.780 Well, mass immigration from the Third World 0.97
00:13:14.240 has brought certain aspects of the cultures of the Third World.
00:13:17.660 Obviously, some people come from the Third World
00:13:19.800 and are delighted and grateful to be in the Free West
00:13:23.300 and assimilate and become pillars of the community.
00:13:26.100 I think we all know people like that.
00:13:27.500 But it must be noted that at a disproportionate rate, 0.85
00:13:30.940 some folks who come from violent cultures, misogynistic cultures, 0.85
00:13:35.480 Islamo-supremacist cultures, they do bring those aspects with them.
00:13:38.900 I'm sorry, that's just a statistical fact. 1.00
00:13:41.120 And so it was about a day and a half ago that a horrific thing happened
00:13:45.320 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
00:13:48.040 A migrant who had gone to the Republic of Ireland, the Irish country,
00:13:53.300 then crossed over the porous, unguarded border
00:13:56.680 into Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK,
00:13:59.500 and in a horrific scene that was caught on cell phone footage,
00:14:04.160 tried to cut off the head, ISIS style,
00:14:08.260 of an Irishman, a Northern Irishman.
00:14:10.720 So viewer discretion advised,
00:14:12.260 I'm going to show you a small bit of that video,
00:14:15.360 and I think you have to watch it,
00:14:17.080 because you have to see the horrors that are happening,
00:14:20.380 given that it is happening to the people of Northern Ireland.
00:14:22.720 And surely it boohoo's us at least to watch, to understand what they're going through.
00:14:27.000 Without further ado, here is a clip of that horrific assault.
00:14:31.060 He's dead. He's still killed him. Hurry up. 0.80
00:14:32.400 He's dead. He's completely dead.
00:14:33.940 No, he's not.
00:14:35.800 Dad, I don't understand.
00:14:36.900 Dad, I don't know.
00:14:38.540 Has he got a knife?
00:14:39.300 Yeah. Get off him, you fucking rat. 1.00
00:14:42.840 You! 1.00
00:14:44.700 He's cutting him. He's cutting him. 0.94
00:14:46.340 He's trying to cut his hair off his knee. Hurry up.
00:14:49.240 Hurry up.
00:14:50.220 He's slicing his hair off here. Hurry up the fuck. 1.00
00:14:52.380 Get him! 1.00
00:14:57.380 Get him!
00:14:59.380 Get him down! 0.96
00:15:01.380 Let him go down!
00:15:03.380 Yes!
00:15:04.380 Yes!
00:15:05.380 Get up!
00:15:06.380 Get up!
00:15:09.380 Where's the cops?
00:15:10.380 Where's the cops? 0.94
00:15:11.380 Back off! 0.67
00:15:12.380 Back off! 1.00
00:15:13.380 Get off! 1.00
00:15:14.380 Get off! 1.00
00:15:17.380 Get off!
00:15:19.380 Well, needless to say, the authorities were concerned about the attack, but they seemed
00:15:30.100 in some ways to be more concerned about the video footage.
00:15:33.640 It seems that if they had their way, they would have banned that footage.
00:15:37.600 If Elon Musk had not turned Twitter into a free speech platform, perhaps they could have
00:15:42.760 gotten away with it.
00:15:43.940 And so it was at various authorities, from the head of police in Northern Ireland to
00:15:48.180 some of the local political officials spoke more about banning the video and what they called
00:15:54.020 right-wing reaction to the video than the horrific crime itself. Here, take a look at some of those
00:15:59.760 officials trying to shift the focus from the horrific murder attempt. The man is in hospital
00:16:05.280 now with grave injuries. He's blind in one eye. He's terribly cut. Thank God he's not dead. But
00:16:12.180 here is the focus of some of those authorities. It's on people's emotional reaction. The
00:16:17.740 The investigation is at early stages. As I've said already, we're ruling out a terrorist
00:16:23.060 motivation at this stage. However, our minds remain open to the various possibilities as
00:16:29.560 to what the motivation is behind this. We will, of course, as we move ahead, be working
00:16:35.860 with all of those who might be able to provide us further information and context as why
00:16:41.740 what happened last night.
00:16:42.740 What you're seeing is a race-based pogrom. We are seeing men going door to door asking to get the foreigners out based exclusively on the colour of their skin. It's not based on what they're contributing to society, what their status here is. And it's terrifying for people in Belfast who want this sort of politics to be far beyond.
00:17:03.760 Well, what is going on? Who is the man who committed this foul crime? Who is the victim? What does this mean for Northern Ireland as a dumping ground for migrants of military age from the Third World? Northern Ireland, of course, famous for its sectarian divisions between Catholics and Protestants. Does it even make sense to dump thousands of migrants from an alien culture in the mix of that?
00:17:30.720 Joining us now to talk about this is our friend Richard Inman, a friend I met through Tommy Robinson, who has hosted our journalist before in Northern Ireland and given us an education on that fascinating place.
00:17:41.560 Richard, what a pleasure to have you here. This is a very dark story. I want to make sure I have my facts straight. You've just been listening to my introduction. Is there anything I've said that needs to be corrected?
00:17:51.500 no i think that's very very accurate and i think you're also realizing there is a very very dark
00:17:57.420 time not just for the family of the of the victim of this horrendous heinous attempted murder and
00:18:05.000 from what i gather from what i gather this guy may not make it that's that's what we're hearing
00:18:12.800 and you know and again i don't want to i don't want to sort of major on that but we're hearing
00:18:18.180 he's in a very very bad state i mean his eye was completely gouged out so his eye was completely
00:18:22.540 ripped out with this guy with a knife oh my god we were told his nose was was completely
00:18:27.020 so his nose was cut off and then as you see in the video the guy hacked his throat for about
00:18:32.580 what it seemed like an hour but obviously it was maybe 10 seconds or 20 seconds but just watching
00:18:37.940 that video which you guys have all now seen um the brutality of that was was beyond the pale
00:18:44.380 and again fair play to the guy that you know that had the hurley bat and and gave him some good old
00:18:50.400 Belfast justice and and hit him a few licks with a hurley back around the head and and try to prevent
00:18:54.400 or stop the stop the attack but yeah it was it was I think it's I've never seen a rage like this in 0.62
00:19:00.940 Northern Ireland since I think since the the probably the Omer bombing that's the last time
00:19:05.920 there's been a rage like this and that was nearly 30 years ago and we've seen a lot of atrocities in
00:19:11.780 this country you know northern ireland has been a place of it was called the troubles uh euphemistically
00:19:19.120 because it was a horrific trouble that cost many lives and um there is a peace now and i i don't
00:19:26.560 have a lot to say about it because i'm not well educated in that but to bring this into northern
00:19:32.040 ireland uh last night there was marches i understand both catholic and protestant were on
00:19:38.780 the street again i i want to be careful because i don't understand all the different sectarian
00:19:43.420 politics but i saw some commentators online remarking how unusual it is for catholic and
00:19:48.820 protestant to attend the same march on the same side i mean again i'm relying on you richard to
00:19:56.680 tell me the lay of the land is that an unusual thing it is unusual um it's actually it's it's
00:20:03.380 happened before it's happened before but not to the extent that it's happening now i mean what
00:20:08.240 happened last night there's a there's a very hard uh republican area in belfast called short strand
00:20:13.640 and it it bumps into a very very hard loyalist area um of east belfast called the newtonards
00:20:20.540 road and the working class lads from short strand sent out a message to the the groups and i'm not
00:20:27.720 going to say the group's names but sent out a message to the groups in east belfast saying
00:20:31.040 can we join you to protest about this heinous crime and the answer was yes and they had a a
00:20:37.860 great meeting of minds the same thing happened in other parts of belfast we've had it in the town
00:20:42.300 where i live so this is now happening across the board and obviously it breaks the narrative that
00:20:47.440 people are at each other's throats and attacking each other all the time because that's increasingly
00:20:51.660 not the case people are joining us together now realizing that there's an existential threat
00:20:55.880 to both irish culture and british culture in these islands and that existential threat is coming from
00:21:01.980 globalist mass migration particularly muslim migration and everywhere i went i spent the
00:21:08.540 whole day today in belfast i was on the ground i did a march in my own town last night and spoke
00:21:12.740 at it and then i was in in east belfast last night for several hours while the disturbances
00:21:17.060 were going on and then again i've been out on the ground in belfast today looking at the aftermath
00:21:20.640 and everywhere i've gone there's been spray paint on the walls um f islam okay so so there's a lot 0.97
00:21:28.340 of anger about Islam, because people aren't stupid. 0.95
00:21:31.100 People understand that this is part of Muslim doctrine. 1.00
00:21:33.960 Beheading is part of jihad, so. 1.00
00:21:36.580 Well, it's in the style of ISIS,
00:21:38.280 I mean, and which itself is in the style 0.84
00:21:40.740 of the killings in the Quran.
00:21:41.960 I mean, they're described that way.
00:21:44.300 I saw news just a couple of-